Be nourished and resourced on an upcoming One Day Retreat February 15th in Indianola, WA – Water, Earth, and Sky:...
A wise friend recently said to me “there’s a lot of waiting in life. It’s best to get comfortable with it.” It’s true....
In The Princess Bride, one of my favorite movies, the evil prince Humperdinck has dragged Princess Buttercup to the altar. There’s a great deal of noise outside the castle, and he knows that her true love Westley is coming to save her in a matter of minutes.
Today I got lost – almost literally in my backyard. Well, almost the backyard of the yoga studio, that is....
February 1, 2022 Happy New Year! February 1st marks the start of the Lunar New Year, celebrated by more...
I have been really enjoying teaching in recent weeks. It can be a balancing act wearing both hats of teacher and studio owner, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.
January 2022 These recent foggy days have made me think of the Danish word Hygge – a word that...
September 2023 I have been really enjoying the end of summer. Mine is a late August birthday, so I try...
Photo courtesy of Liz Gill “When times are uncertain, difficult, fearful, full of change, they become the perfect place to deepen the practice of awakening.” ‑ Jack Kornfield Well, it’s been a week, hasn’t it? On Wednesday morning, after waking up to the election results, I led a...
When we first begin to meditate, we might notice that there is very little space inside our minds. It might...
“Our spirit has an instinct for silence. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we...
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?
