"Don't turn your feet out." "Never drink water during practice." "Flex your foot to protect your knee." "Don't invert when you're menstruating." I love it when a teacher tells me…
Before you select a sperm donor, you have to go visit an approved counsellor. I guess so they can make sure that you aren't crazy. My fertility clinic provided me…
I experience anxiety and depression. In my life, I have fallen into despair and loneliness, had suicidal thoughts, cut myself to purge the pain, taken anti-depressants, and curled up on my…
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…
