The practice of yoga offers many different gifts to many different people. Traditionally the word yoga is defined as “to yoke” or to create “a union.” The union or the yoking that this definition speaks to is the creation of a union between the heart and the mind. Once this union is created one experiences an inner calm and quiet, …
What is Iyengar Yoga?
“If you learn a lot of little things, one day you may end up knowing a big thing.” BKS Iyengar Ballet starts at the barre. Many musicians learn the scales 1st. Karate pieces the Katas together over and over again before the sequence flows from beginning to end. Iyengar Yoga is like this. First things first – learn the scales, then …
Revolutionize your Resolutions
I remember taking a teacher training with Shiva Rea in 2013 that went over New Years Eve and Day and it revolutionized my view of the new year and resolutions. Prior to that training I had never really been a fan of New Years. I always felt that the parties, celebrations and resolutions around self-improvement seemed so false and manufactured. Not to …
3 Simple Ways to Stay Grounded This Holiday Season
December is here and with it, comes the holiday season. The holidays can be a complex roller-coaster of emotion, with lots of excitement, social events and time spent with family. Although this time of year can be joyful and energizing, it can also leave us feeling depleted, with little or no time to recharge, sleep, or practice our self-care …
What is Beautycounter and why it matters?
Warning, this is not really a post about yoga. Well at least it is not a post about yoga asana (the poses), pranayama (breath) or meditation, however, this is a post about the choices we make around the products we use, and spend our money on. That to me is part of living yoga. Yoga is not only about the …
Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra has my unwavering attention these days ૱ I seem to have created myself a healthy dose of attention deficit disorder. I attribute this self-diagnosed current state to the day to day single-mama, entrepreneur, hustle / hamster wheel of samsara ⟲ ⟳ ⟴ many of us are on. YES, this is the time to be building my legacy, a …
What Kind of Yoga is This?
We get so wrapped up in knowing something us humans. We love a good label. We think that it helps us to understand, if we know something definitively, then we are able to put it into a box. Even simple labels such as “good” and “bad”, or “I like” and “I don’t like”. I am sure that we all have …
Yoga Confessions
All of us who practice yoga regularly were once beginners. Stepping into a yoga studio for the first time can be intimidating. Stepping into any yoga studio for the first time can be very intimidating, new teachers, new community and a new space. I thought that it would be useful to discuss the top three reasons why people tell me …
5 Reasons to Practice Yoga Even in the Summer
This happens to the best of us as the weather gets nicer and nicer: we stop practicing yoga. Well, it happens to those of us who aren’t addicted to our yoga practice or who don’t practice 4 or more times per week. As the weather gets nicer we are pulled outside, especially after months of rain in the place we …
Yoga and the Culture of Nice
Yoga is the practice of creating or yoking a union between body & mind, bringing you more into alignment with your big “S” self. The ethical principles/restraints of yoga speak to: Being kind to yourself and others (ahimsa), being honest to yourself and others (satya), to not steal, time, things, energy from yourself or others (Asteya), walking in alignment with …