My mother never knows what to expect when I come home. Chatting about my plans for Thanksgiving, there will come the inevitable pause as she tries to plan her menu,…
I'm back to my food shenanigans people. Back with a vengeance. Oh, the food adventures that I have been having! Well, since we last connected about food, I have become…
Hello, friends. Many of you may know that I’m passionate about yoga, relationships, and teacher training. What you may not have known quite so explicitly is that I’m also a…
Last year I heard a monk speak at the Wanderlust Festival in Whistler. In contrast to high sweat, uber upbeat, bouncy vinyasa classes that I'd been taking, his talk occurred in a shushed and darkened…
To do this pose well, you need open outer hips, coupled with hip buoyancy (from the core and back leg activation) coupled wtih a willingness to reach the chest forward…
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At the office. 8 pm on a Friday night. With my yoga administrator, Caecilia. And I'm fussing over syntax in an email. "Sorry, C," I sigh, "I know this is…
Big Box Yoga. Mainstream yoga. Franchise yoga. “It’s so…corporate,” the yogi whispers. “Sure, I occasionally go there, but the real yoga is happening at (insert name of small, financially…
I really suck at preparing for the holidays. Oh, how I long to be the person who mails their holiday cards weeks in advance, or buys christmas presents in April! If…
7:48 AM: sunrise. 4:30 PM: sunset. That’s right, it’s full winter in Vancouver. And It. Is. Dark. When darkness descends, my immediately reaction is resistance. The long night is too…
Solar eclipses are spectacular. There was recently a partial solar eclipse. Miraculously, the perpetually cloudy Vancouver skies cleared at just the moment of the eclipse’s maximum expression. I raced out onto…
“Rachel, what’s going on?” “….” “…Rachel, clearly something is on your mind….just say it.” I am silent: my oceanic feelings are contained behind the steel-trap of my teeth. I feel,…
