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,…
Finding your essence by cutting back Imagine a gorgeous rosebush in the fullness of her bloom: overflowing with fragrant flowers, dripping with honeyed scent, full of wild, buzzing bees. During…
A Rabbit Noticed My Condition "I was sad one day and went for a walk; I sad in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition and came near. It often…
