Home is Where the Heart Is
So you get to the occasional or somewhat regular yoga class, but still, you feel like it's not quite enough. Maybe it's in consideration of time or money or energy, but you find yourself wanting to practice at home yet lacking the …
The Gratitude of Surrender
Have you ever surrendered? I mean, complete and total surrender. Normally, I think we view this (and experience this) with the feeling of defeat. I give up. You win. But I am talking about something different. I am talking about surrendering to …
The Breath of Vulnerability
These are the pieces buried in sand, settled precariously at the bottom of my ocean. It is time to detach, drift upwards and move towards the surface, compelled by the light. Hidden bits, secretly concealed or perhaps cleverly disguised. These, I measure …
What IS yoga about?
The other day someone asked me what yoga is about. Not in general, but for me personally. And in that moment I was stopped by the realization that I couldn't possibly give a simple answer to what my yoga practice means to …
Stability vs. Expansion
“Let your stability create expansion. Never let your expansion steal from your stability.” In my yoga teacher training we talked a lot about the stability of a pose vs. the expansion within that pose. This dichotomy is one of the key elements of …
Never? No, Just Not Yet.
Awhile back I made a decision to never say never. Let me rephrase that. I consciously decided to eradicate the word 'never' from my vocabulary. And this simple act has brought on a pretty profound change in perspective and subsequent action. Because …
