Have you ever noticed that whenever you have a party, everyone winds up in the kitchen? No matter how much you decorate your living room or spruce up the dining…
This class yoga pose is complex! Requiring deep opening through the hips and shoulders, wheel uses the strength of the arms and legs to leverage the practitioner into the pose.…
This past week I had a difficult conversation with a loved one. It was one of those rip-your-heart-open-say-what-you-really-think experiences where I felt uncertain and scared. Usually a rational and controlled…
I taught this delightful little power sequence in YYoga's 3-Day Principles of YYoga Teacher Training as a demonstration of sensibly sequencing to peak poses. Keep in mind that access to…
I’m right! You’re wrong! Ooooo, it feels so good to be right!! Doesn’t it? Being right is brain happy food. “He is soooooo wrong!” I say, outraged (but somehow gleeful).…
Your mind is a beautiful cage. Glorious, glittering, shiny, and infinitely complex...but a cage nonetheless. From the time we're children, we create an understanding of the world and live by…
"No rushing," my yoga teacher admonishes sternly. She's helping me with backbends. I'm moving too fast. I take a breath and pause. I slow down. "Good," she nods, "no rushing."…
It's the month of November and time again for this most remarkable time: saying no. At first, saying no sounds bad, like a five year old staring at their brussel…
I fall over in handstand. I try, I miss, I get afraid, I fall. I am not one of those effortless inversion mamas, deftly floating from pose to pose. I…
One of the most powerful gifts that yoga provides to us is a safe space to feel richly and authentically. How many of us get caught in days of politeness,…
It was day one and I was already befuddled. First of all, allow me to confess that I drank a glass of wine. I know, I know! SO not paleo! But…
I relish new beginnings: new diets (oh my sugar free, pegan fads...you know me!), New Year's Resolutions, yoga practice plans, website launchings. I get this rush, a burst of bright satisfaction.…