The other day a friend shared this: Does that sound familiar to you? It certainly does for me and I felt joyful about my friend’s feeling of victory. However, why we are compelled to inaction? If we know that yoga will make us feel better, why not do it? I think naming the obstacle […]
My son Will is a dreamer, a thinker, a creative mind kind of kid. Sometimes I’ll catch him just sitting still, staring at this elaborate set up of LEGO vehicles and figures on his bedroom floor. I once asked him what he was doing. In a voice dripping with annoyance, he responded: “I’m playing. Obviously.” […]
A long time ago when I first began practicing yoga, I took a class billed as “advanced yoga”. I remember feeling nervous when I signed up that we’d spend the whole time in headstand or doing drop backs. Instead we worked on tree pose for 90 minutes. It was incredibly illuminating. I heard familiar cues […]
The other day I noticed that my daughter had moved the clock in her room. When I asked her about it she told me that the nightlight on the clock was making the cat figurine on the shelf look creepy. I proceeded to give her this long “mom talk” that I remember hearing when I […]
I taught my last in-person class on March 14, four and half months ago. It’s been a time of such upheaval. But it’s also been a time of soul searching, a call to dig in deep and find the stuff we are made of at our core. What better time to be a yogi? Yoga […]
It’s the third day of protests in the DC area (as well as in many other parts of the US.) By now, everyone has heard about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 and the understandable outrage over his death that has sparked these protests. Despite the fact that I typically write […]
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -H. P. Lovecraft Seems appropriate for our current global crisis, right? The uncertainly of these current times lands me somewhere between low grade anxiety and full on freak out these days. You too? […]
I was in college studying philosophy and comparative religion when I had this revelation about myths and folklore and stories of all sorts. We are always every character. I don’t remember which brilliant professor planted this seed for me but I think about it all the time. I mean this idea sort of changes how […]
Last Sunday I had just returned home from my annual winter Restorative Yoga retreat and I was dragging my feet about unloading all of the things from the car. I happened upon a book about geckos that my kids had left out. Just to be clear, I don’t care at all about geckos but some […]
