“Our spirit has an instinct for silence. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we...
My whole young life, I remember my father getting up before dawn and going for his daily run, long before...
When I taught on New Year’s Day morning, I was happy to see my regular Monday morning crowd. I am not a rah-rah kick butt yoga teacher, and if you come to my class regularly, you probably know this about me. I just couldn’t get fired up about inspiring my...
Today I got lost – almost literally in my backyard. Well, almost the backyard of the yoga studio, that is....
A couple of weeks ago, I returned from a 7-day silent meditation retreat. “7 days of silence?!” people ask, stunned...
One of the conversations we have been having in our current Yoga Teacher Training is about the value or detriment of mindfulness hitting the mainstream. When Jon Kabat-Zinn introduced the word and concept of mindfulness to health care in the 70’s, with the creation of the Stress Reduction Clinic at...
The longer I teach and practice yoga, the gentler my teaching and practice become. I tell my yoga friends, “pretty...
Today is a day off for me. I worked all weekend, leading Yoga Teacher Training. One of my self-care practices...
So…full disclosure – I got an email from Source Yoga the other day saying, “we haven’t seen you for a while.” HA! I guess it’s been a while since I have made it in for class. Things have been busy for me for sure – with kids and business...
“It takes boldness, even audacity, to step out of our habitual patterns and experiment with a quality like kindness...
Photo courtesy of Liz Gill Where can you pause? For me, it started in the fall. I had just dropped...
“When we truly rest in awareness, our experience is spacious and intimate, without defenses. With it arises compassion; we feel our heart’s natural connection with life.” –Jack Kornfield, meditation teacher In our current political climate, many people on both sides of the political aisle are feeling uncertain. Many people I...