“Self-care, I think, is a way of going against business as usual. It’s a radical route. Learning to love ourselves...
Good news – we are in full-on summer cleaning mode in the studios, getting ready to welcome you back to in person classes for...
January 2022 “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” – Etty Hillesum Why do you practice yoga? For me, a few different answers arise in response to this question. My yoga asana practice offers me the gift of knowing and being...
As we begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel of this pandemic with the rates of vaccinations going...
The longer I teach and practice yoga, the gentler my teaching and practice become. I tell my yoga friends, “pretty...
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...
Photo courtesy of Liz Gill Where can you pause? For me, it started in the fall. I had just dropped...
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, a few weeks in the desert, immersed in yoga and meditation. One of our last mornings, after a 5 am meditation, I stood outside, under a spectacular sky of stars,...
This holiday season, the words I kept repeating to myself were “good enough.” Good enough, as in, who needs perfect? I recently read Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert, about living a creative life. In one section, she writes about her creative process
This Monday, I dropped my daughter off at her first day of kindergarten. Weeks before she stepped into her new...
Normally, I’d be all about the homework. I am one of those people who’s ridiculously happy to be a lifelong student. I have 2 grad school degrees, for goodness’ sake. I miss taking classes besides yoga. But I have to admit that the MBSR homework is a struggle.