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.
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...
March 2023 Yoga is a practice of embodiment. Which makes perfect sense to most of us when much of our exposure to yoga has been asana classes. {Asana is the physical practice of yoga postures and movement.} In asana practice, we are moving our bodies, we are breathing, we are having...
