June 2025 Dear Source friends, I know those of you that are regulars in our community know the benefits...
June 2025 A few words from Source Yoga student and Journal Editor, Tamiko Nimura: Dear Source community, Erin and I...
November 2023 When big things happen both in our life and in the world around us, we might struggle to make sense of them and wrestle with how to respond. If you spend any time online (ahem, who doesn’t these days?), you are seeing the events of the world filtered...
A couple of weeks ago, I returned from a 7-day silent meditation retreat. “7 days of silence?!” people ask, stunned...
January 2022 “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” –...
The longer I teach and practice yoga, the gentler my teaching and practice become. I tell my yoga friends, “pretty soon we will just be doing Savasana for 90 minutes!” That might be an exaggeration, but for me (and for many teachers I know), there is a broader movement towards...
Photo courtesy of Liz Gill Where can you pause? For me, it started in the fall. I had just dropped...
I completed my first yoga teacher training in September, 2000, at Ghost Rach, New Mexico. This was an intensive training,...
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.
November 2024 CARING FOR OURSELVES AND FOR EACH OTHER Well, it’s been quite a week. How are you caring for yourself? Here is one self-care practice I did yesterday – I removed the social media apps off of my phone. I needed to termporarily tap out of the noise. I have...
