April 2023 “This is one way of speaking about mindfulness, or being present: coming home to ourselves. When we bring...
February, 2023 “The heart opens. The heart closes. This is the systole and diastole of human life. We may...
August 2020 I learned a new word recently – a word that perfectly described something I was doing that has not been serving me well. Doomscrolling. The nightly scroll of news and media, reading articles and headlines about how much is going wrong in the world. Not the most relaxed or pleasant...
When we first begin to meditate, we might notice that there is very little space inside our minds. It might...
Today is a day off for me. I worked all weekend, leading Yoga Teacher Training. One of my self-care practices...
May 2020 As we are facing this global pandemic and its impact on all areas of life, I have been thinking about resiliency. For most of us, this is one of the most difficult things we have collectively faced. It takes a lot of resiliency to get through the day to day, through the stress that we are...
By Kate Fontana, Source Yoga community member and teacher Dear Friends, What do you do with a holiday once...
Transitions may be the most important part of a yoga practice. At least if we are present to them. Consider...
My favorite yoga pose is uttanasana. This pose was for a long time my least favorite, in all of its manifestations, and I resisted it. Why? It revealed where in my body I held darkness.
Today I got lost – almost literally in my backyard. Well, almost the backyard of the yoga studio, that is....
“In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age...
January, 2023 In January, I usually write some version of my (gentle) rant against the “New Year, New You” marketing that we see everywhere, but this year I can’t seem to muster the energy. Let me give you the TL;DR version – you are enough as you are, and there is no resolution...