November 2022 “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” ~ Coretta...
Good news – we are in full-on summer cleaning mode in the studios, getting ready to welcome you back to in person classes for...
As we begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel of this pandemic with the rates of vaccinations going up, many Source Yoga community members are beginning to be able to venture out, see grandchildren, socialize with other vaccinated family members. It feels like we can finally celebrate the bloom of spring – the moving out of a...
The longer I teach and practice yoga, the gentler my teaching and practice become. I tell my yoga friends, “pretty...
November 21, 2021 After a year and a half of disruption in life as we knew it, many people have made big...
June 2022 It’s been a particularly difficult time – being in this country, in this world, in this human experience. I have shed tears these last couple of weeks for victims and families of senseless gun violence, ongoing war, and the continual targeted attacks on marginalized people. The shooting at Robb Elementary...
May, 2023 As a yoga instructor who has been teaching since I was 25, and who prefers a slow and gentle...
February 16th, 2022 If this last two years has taught us anything, it’s that we really don’t know what the...
Photo courtesy of Liz Gill Where can you pause? For me, it started in the fall. I had just dropped my kids off at school. I was walking out of the playground, and I had to stop. The clouds were spectacular that chilly fall morning – streaking across the sky...
So, we have been hard at work over the last weeks in preparations for welcoming you back into the studios...
I completed my first yoga teacher training in September, 2000, at Ghost Rach, New Mexico. This was an intensive training,...
Only a week later, my inner yoga teacher shows up again; she too, has gone on retreat. She reminds me of the definition of the word mindful, as used by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the originator of MBSR in the West. Mindfulness is about paying attention in a non-judgmental way. I can pay attention mindfully, I like to think. I have a much harder time paying attention without judgment. So my inner yoga teacher says: What if your discomfort isn’t something for you to analyze away? What if you don’t need to do anything about your discomfort? What if you just noticed it?
