Here are some tips when coming to yoga: Bring your own mat if preferred. Clean mats before & after use – wipes available in the studio. Bring a towel or tissues for use on blankets or props. Wash your hands regularly, thoroughly. If you...
Read moreTools To Overcome Overload
What are your challenges these days? My list may sound familiar to you: Overwhelm, overload, to do lists….you may be familiar with that uncomfortable pressure or the flutters that whoosh through the body whenever you think about your tasks...
Read moreWhen Spirit And Science Come Together
You have a task to do. You’re resistant to doing it. You do everything you know to get yourself focused. Then, you get up. You get yourself your tea or coffee. You find yourself doing your ‘keep busy’ stuff, engaging in your favorite...
Read moreEveryday Yoga – Locate Your Off Switch
Here’s the scene: you’re driving somewhere – to work, to a class, a performance, a family function. Imagine yourself in your car and on your way. Now, 5 quick questions for you. What kind of driver are you, speed demon or cool & calm?...
Read moreHeads or Tails? Stop Thinking and Ask Your Body!
Decisions to make? Stop thinking and ask your body! You’re in your favorite yoga class, in one of your least favorite poses, maybe revolved triangle (lol) and the teacher wanders off to help another student and you’re left dangling there...
Read moreHow Do You Do You?
How do you do you? Have you ever thought about how you do you? The science is in! Your thoughts absolutely affect your health, your bio chemistry, and even your DNA. Somewhere around 2000 years ago, Patanjali, author of The Yoga Sutras (one of...
Read moreYear End Review
Most people will close the chapter of their year without reflecting on the lessons learned or celebrating the enormous accomplishments over the previous 12 months. THIS is a recipe for the never-satisfied longing of a better tomorrow. YOU ARE NOT...
Read more“Juggling Effort & Release”
Do you love/hate December, this month of holi-daze, endings, beginnings? The lights, the music, family gatherings, and the solstice are all things that I love; the commercialism, the pressure, the overdone mall music…yuck! Along with this...
Read moreWhat keeps you from daring gravity?
“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” -Brian Rathbone What keeps you from daring gravity? That limitation that stops you from change? You know the thing…the recurring one that you swear you’ve handled; the thing you were...
Read moreTrust The Magic of Beginnings
Having a bit of anxiety or excitement as we enter September? Perhaps a combination of dread and relief, or some sense of loss as we leave summer and move forward – back to ‘real life’. Childhood memories of a new school year never quite...
Read moreOn Truth & Illness
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” -Albert Einstein I was working with one of my wonderful clients this morning who had ‘bitten off’ way more than he could handle and as a result was entering...
Read moreHow thoughts affect our health
Personal experience with chronic pain has been teaching me many unexpected lessons. In the process of trying to wean myself off of meds to control inflammation & pain, I’ve gone down a path of researching the placebo effect and the...
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