GETTING YOUR LIFE TOGETHER

On this blog In the yoga scene On Instagram I want to be a voice, however small or soft it may be, that's not about the stunning pics Tha...

On the mat, my goal is to mentally reach a place where I'm steady and focused. To me, steady means that I'm not jumping around in my mind...

One of the biggest things I learned coming to yoga was how to breathe. I didn't realize that I would spend my entire day (except if I wor...

"When we are able to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it." - Pema Chodron I’ve used this quot...

I've posted before that one of my sacred practices is that whenever something infuriating, stressful or mildly annoying happens in my lif...

It doesn’t need to be perfect. The pose, the timing, the event, none of it. Ishvara pranidhana in yoga means surrender. Surrender is not ...

The past week or so in my classes, I've been using longer holds, mostly in the spirit of a transition to a pitta-balancing practice for s...

In big balance poses, the more I resist falling out, the more I wobble. The more I think about balancing, the harder it gets to do. The w...

I have a thing I say in class. I’m pretty sure my regulars think I’m a broken record. But still, I think it’s important. I call it the tr...

"Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape." (Michael McGriffy) What lessons can be learned about the flexibility...