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Weekly Writing: Light & Dark Part 3
There is something very loving about this idea of how yoga can approach you in ways that defy words. How it can be more a feeling than anything and when you hit the stride of it all you just move as though in a dream. Colors are different, and what you see and feel...
Weekly Writing: Light & Dark Part 2
Early in my teaching career, I was talking about the concept of light & dark in a general sense to a group of students. One of my students was very upset by this concept and expressed their belief yoga was only good and happy and peaceful. The thought of yoga...
Weekly Writing: Light & Dark Part 1 of 4
When I think back to my early days as a new practioner, attending the Washington Street studio for classes, I largely remember the light in the room. The way it moved through you as though a blanket of warm, safe energy reaching to hold you. My early days of practice...
Weekly Letter: Seeking Authenticity
In reflection after a weekend away with my husband, we were talking about what we love to do when we travel or go places and I surmised that we go for an authentic experience. I struggle with places that are too stark and crave places that have color or character. As...
Weekly Letter: The Obstacles are part of the Journey
I read something recently that said something along the lines of, ‘the obstacles are part of the journey. There will always be obstacles in the path. The practice is navigating around them.” Everything wants to get in your way-no matter the goal. But the exercise of...
Weekly Letter: Wisdom from George Carlin
As we go through the practice, alone on the mat. Sometimes finding our minds quiet, sometimes not. The practice asks us to observe, but it doesn’t tell us what to examine exactly. Your teacher offers you things to consider and its up to you to assign what that idea...
Weekly Letter: are we stifling yoga?
In late Middle English the word create was derived from the idea that something was ‘born out of nothing.’ And idea, a story, art. Even our postures came from spontaneous movement from deep meditation. The build of prana (energy) in the body caused it to begin to move...
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...