Sometimes we all need help getting ourselves out of a funk. Music is one of the quickest ways to alter our internal states. When we combine inspirational music with the healing powers of coordinated breath and yoga movement, we create a potent...
Read moreMinute Breathing Meditation
Feeling a little anxious? Or need to calm an overactive mind? Here’s a 1 minute practice you can do any time to regain focus or to redirect your energy.
Read morelove these last few weeks of summer
Someone once told me that summer is like a weekend. June is Friday, July is Saturday and August is Sunday. So how is your Sunday going? How are feeling? You still have plenty of time this summer to find your stride, jumpstart your yoga...
Read morePatty in Jan 2012 WAG Magazine
Ever hear of WAG magazine? It’s a beautiful, over-sized color magazine addressing what’s going on around our area…Westchester and Southern Connecticut. Anyway, there’s an article about yoga that I am mentioned in and includes some words and a...
Read more“The heart is quiet…”
Can yoga help us become more like our hearts? Take a few relaxed heart opening breaths and let me know how you feel as you read the following: “The heart is quiet rather than noisy, intuitive rather than deductive, lives entirely in the present...
Read moreWomen’s Symposium
Please join me Saturday, October 29th at The Chalet on the Hudson for a wonderful day of woman wisdom! I am on the panel with “Today in New York” TV Host Darlene Rodriguez, Elizabeth Ailes, owner and publisher of Putnam County News and Recorder...
Read moreTowards the Playful Pursuit of Purposeful Poses
This week at The Yoga Garden we will be exploring a few of the most beneficial and exciting aspects of yoga. Learning to connect to our Bandhas opens the inner energetic support systems of the body. Working with our Ujayi Breath increases focus...
Read moreThe 2 P’s and the Pleasurable Warrior
This week at The Yoga Garden experience your pleasurable warrior being strengthened by the softening of the breath… a paradoxical but effective tool to getting more out of your yoga practice. Our warriors are needed more than ever to deal with...
Read moreOy vey…I hurt!! Should I come to yoga?
So I came to my yoga mat not feeling so great… my left knee and right wrist hurt, there’s a crick behind my right shoulder blade that’s talking to me big time (all thanks to some heavy duty garden weeding..lol). And instead of pushing through, I...
Read moreMagic moves for pain
This week at The Yoga Garden I can’t wait to share with you some very exciting work. For anyone who experiences knee pain, back pain, plantar fasciata (bottom of the foot pain), shoulder pain, this week’s class will show you what may be at the...
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