Let’s check-in: How are your summer practice goals and intentions going? What self-care systems have you been leaning into? I have a confession: my plans for summer have taken a completely different turn, but it is turning out to be a huge learning and growing…
Continue reading Self-Care Tune-Up/ Learning from a Summer Cold
Hello Dearest Sweets, Episode 123 of Sunrose Yoga is a conversation with Andrea Sanders. I have known Andrea for years, since we were both living in Seattle, and it was really fun to talk about practice and projects together. Andrea calls herself a “self-taught soul…
Continue reading Episode 123// Conversation with Andrea Sanders of Awake Tribe
Beloveds, I write to you on the precipice of so much movement: a trip to Minnesota this week to lead a delicious retreat in the North Woods followed by a month-long adventure in Southeast Asia. Amid the movement is a center of stillness and receptivity…
Continue reading Heartbeats// Holding Space for Each Other
I just returned from a sweet weekend in community with some yogini sisters in Sisters, Oregon. My teacher, Kira Ryder, and her friend Kari Sims Anton, hosted a deeply meaningful retreat called Our Wild & Quiet Dharma. We hiked, we sat, we laughed, we cried,…
Continue reading The Magic of Retreat//
Hi Loves, I thought it was high time I shared another pranayama technique with you. Brahmari is a delicious technique that is so helpful in those moments of wired-tiredness. Find a tall, beautiful seat, and begin! Coming soon: asana sequence for the wired-tireds. Jai ma!…
Continue reading Day 11~~ Brahmari. The Bee Breath.
Namaskar, dear readers! As you may have noticed, I’ve made a few changes to the Samadhi Rush: Whole Yoga for the Whole Yogi blog. In addition to posting asana sequences on a weekly basis, I plan to add a few new regular posts this spring.…
Continue reading Yoga Library: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Patanjali’s yoga sutras describe the path of Raja (royal) yoga, or union with one’s true & divine nature. Divinity is our natural state, though we face obstacles vis-a-vis our karma and kleshas (suffering due to attachments to pain, desire, ego and the status quo). The…
Continue reading Exploring the yoga sutras.