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Weekly Letter: Letting Go
The right combinations of words unlock awareness inside of ourselves. We find places we’ve never had access to or maybe learn something new we didn’t fully understand before. By using words and language we get to create all these new associations to better grow into...
Weekly Letter: The Same Practice
Why do we ask our yoga to be the same all the time? I am not the same every day. Some days I feel more strongly than others. Some days I need to take care of my emotions and be quiet or small. But the yoga isn’t asking you to be anything other that what you are. And...
Weekly Letter: Taking the practice deeper
The Bhagavad Gita says, ‘Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.’ The word journey is tricky. In any journey, it implies a destination with stops along the way. Maybe journey is the word because so many yogis were nomadic. Journey is mentioned...
Weekly Letter: Send Love through Light
This past holiday season my neighbors and I decided to coordinate our porch decorations to tie the neighborhood together. It was a cute candy cane theme that was easy to do and be creative. We enjoyed the idea that our block would feel unified, festive and bright....
Weekly Letter: Helping Future Me
I’ve been spending some time over the last month doing little jobs for myself in the future. I’ve been wiring ornaments to small trees before putting them away, writing my future self emails and scheduling their delivery, I’ve been organizing certain things in a...
Weekly Letter: Getting Started
I sat down to paint the other day. I’ve been watching a few artists work a medium I enjoy and whose prints I have bought for my home. The technique is ink and watercolors. I love watching the way their hand floats across the page, they make it look so easy and...
Weekly Letter: Getting Unstuck
I had a meeting last week I was kinda dreading. It wasn’t the person, but the topic. I had put a project on the back burner and I was going into a meeting where I was going to have to admit that. I had built up the outcome in my head (as we do) and was certain I was...
9 years
9 years. I bought the studio 9 years ago Monday (1/15). Am I any wiser? What have I learned in the 9 years of having my own business? To think back on the person who decided to take on an existing business, she really didn’t know what she was doing. She knew how to...
Weekly Letter: 5 things that keep me organized
Last week, I was putting myself together for the year. By that, I mean I was compiling the tools I use that keep me organized and on track with the responsibilities of my job. Some of the items I replenish as I run out and some I need earlier than the new year, but...
Weekly Letter: Happy 2024
Me to Levi: I want to write something about new years resolutions, but how they don't work. Levi: there's a podcast you should listen to... Link to the transcript and recording: The Problem with setting goals with NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho You don't have to...
Weekly Letter: A Pain Series (Part 5)
Part 5: Applying it to practice The practice asks you to monitor pain on different levels: mental and physical. And sometimes they blur or get confused. I once had a student who would say ‘ow’ every time they felt sensation. We would be doing postures and they would...
Weekly Letter: A Pain Series (Part 4)
Part 4: Pain Messaging Somewhere, during our cycle of life, early on and now, we are given strong messaging to stuff our pain down. To mute it. Some people stuff it so completely they create an entirely new sensitivity to what it all means. They can change the shape...
Weekly Letter: A Pain Series (Part 3)
Pain Origins -Part 3: Mental/Emotional If only small children had the language to express the nuance of mental and emotional pain. We may have had the word ‘gaslighting’ far earlier. Unfortunately, the child experience of mental or emotional pain is a quiet one. This...
Weekly Letter: A Pain Series (Part 2)
Pain Origins: Physical Pain I grew up in the 80s-90s when ‘stranger danger’ was strong. I used to think the phrase came from The Cure’s Just Like Heaven, but later realized the phrase was ‘strange as angels,’ and not Robert Smith’s wonderful voice saying ‘stranger...
Weekly Letter: A Pain Series (Part 1)
A Series on Pain: Part 1 I went to the doctor for a pain I’ve been having in my wrist. It turns out to be a ganglion cyst and not that big of a deal, but as a precaution, he took an X-ray to check for arthritis. After, we sat down and he told me about my options and...
The Farmer’s Meditation
A Farmer's Meditation Early in my relationship with Levi, we found ourselves in this cyclical argument we couldn’t find our way out of. Any source of tension at the time would be a catalyst for the same fight and it was wearing us out. At the time, I was working on...
Weekly Letter: Allow time for reflection
In yoga, I see people try to ‘hire-out’ their practice by trying to find shortcuts to results. These are the same people who leave their practice early because the ‘results’ are not what they expected. The message of the practice doesn’t always happen in the moment....
The Chore to be Great
I still actively use Pinterest for help with different things. I use it for recipes, travel tips, home repairs, etc. It has helped enrich my life in many ways. One of my tabs is motivational quotes or words of wisdom. I will venture to that tab if I need a little...