Yoga & Other Musings
The Difference Between a Yoga Therapy Session and a Yoga Class
Yoga practice on it’s own can help with a myriad of physical, mental and emotional issues. If your practice includes movement or use of asanas (postures) you will receive the benefits of moving interstitial and synovial fluid through the muscles and joints;...
read moreEnergizing YOGA Video to connect your body and brain
Some of yoga’s benefits have nothing to do with our strength, flexibility or balance. Often practicing yoga can help us recognize unhealthy habits and thoughts. Practicing yoga also teachers us great sensitivity to how we are affected by people, places, food,...
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My friend and colleague, Shelbi Miles, introduced me to the book, My Stroke of Insight many years ago. At the time, I was immersed in my Yoga Therapy training and that story along with Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by Matthew Sanford, set my brain on...
read moreStrategies for when you are struggling
All yogis wobble, stumble and fall, some days more than others. Thankfully, yoga has a good track record of helping us get through even some of the most trying times. I’ll admit there are days when I wonder... is my yoga working - I still get upset, I become afraid,...
read moreCelebrate YOU! with this new meditation
I am almost too embarrassed to write these words given what I know and what I teach, but my divorce helped me to better experience and understand my feelings. I have known/done this for years, but the intensity of the feelings I had (and sometimes still have) during...
read moreMy Broken Heart
Don’t Settle Don’t Give Up Rest When you need to but keep waking up Keep Moving Keep Learning Keep Growing Keep Healing These were some of the Post It notes I left for myself the first time my heart was truly broken. There had been many other times in my life...
read moreLet Your Heart Break Open
Let’s start February, the month of the heart, with a meditation on connecting with your life through your heart. I'd like this month to not be so much about Valentine’s Day as a Hallmark holiday, but more about the concept of love and the heart as a space we can...
read moreSisterhood of the Traveling Yoga Pants: A Sedona Slumber Party
When was the last time you did something for yourself? Are you so busy you have forgotten what matters most? Do you need to disengage from technology and stare at the stars? Is gazing at sunrises and sunsets a distant memory? What would it feel like to run away with...
read moreWhy do we keep doing the same things over and over?
“In Indian and yogic philosophy, samskaras are the mental impressions left by all thoughts, actions and intents that an individual has ever experienced.They can be thought of as psychological imprints.They are below the level of normal consciousness and are said to be...
read moreA New Yoga Class For You
Enjoy this 50-minute Gentle Yoga practice. In this calming practice, I will take you through the Joint Freeing Series developed by Mukunda Stiles followed by an experience of oscillating and moving the fascia in your body. (Please know this was recorded live at my...
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