BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL Welcome September! It’s back to school for students, teachers, and administrators in this area. I am...
May, 2023 As a yoga instructor who has been teaching since I was 25, and who prefers a slow and gentle...
February 16th, 2022 If this last two years has taught us anything, it’s that we really don’t know what the future holds. We have been happy that so many of you have gone with the flow and adapted with us. We have LOVED the opportunity to be with...
SUMMER MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL FOR NEW MEMBERS 3 months of unlimited yoga for $280 (an $80 savings!!) *Offer valid for those...
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.
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.
I received an email from a student recently asking for help looking for yoga classes for her parents who live...
April 2022 Welcome spring! The days this week have had such welcome pockets of sun and warmth, so inviting after...
A couple of weeks ago, I posed the question in our recent newsletter: Why is Source Yoga your Yoga Home? I had some wonderful responses, and I wanted to publish a couple of them here, from two students who call Source their Yoga Home.
The longer I teach and practice yoga, the gentler my teaching and practice become. I tell my yoga friends, “pretty...
July 2024 This summer, Source Yoga launches our 20th year as a part of the Tacoma yoga community! If you have...
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?
