Yoga has been a part of my life since I was 20 – a young college woman traveling the world looking for balance and health. That’s when I picked up my first yoga book and started to practice the breathing and physical practices.  A few years later I discovered the…

I’ve had a couple interesting conversations recently about the fact that we don’t have mirrors within the practice space at my yoga studio.  To me it seems quite clear why we don’t have them. And yet, through my conversations I realize that we are a bit of an aberration for…

Full stop.  Just breathe.  Most of us tend not to breathe very well or very consciously.  Do you know if you are a chest breather or a belly breather? If you tend to breathe primarily up in the chest, it is an accelerator to your stress levels.  If you use…

If you are like most people you’ve heard about the benefits of meditation and have thought about trying it.  But, for some reason you haven’t been able to make a consistent practice out of it. I was there when I first started meditating.  You are not alone. There are many…

In preparation for this blog post, I chanted Oṁ 2,000 times with my breath on a recent hike. I wanted to connect to the essence that is always there even more deeply.  Today let’s look at the four parts of Om and how they relate to our lives and our…

Yoga is an inside job.  Your experience of the world is yours and yours alone.  Every time you practice an āsana, it is up to you to go as far as is right, to notice the thoughts in your mind about the pose or to breathe fully or not.  As we…