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
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
OM. All of life’s smells met me as I pedaled home. Twilight smells of coolness and dish-washing, ordinarily. But tonight, I smelled all the last-suppers, my grandparents’ country club, rose perfume, and a pail of dirty diapers. And this conglomeration of life somehow spoke…
Continue reading A collection of thoughts on the barely-waxing moon// An Ode to Shiva
You know how things start simply, then get complicated, then are reduced down to their essential state again? I am always talking about this. It’s true. There is something about the edges– easy times, challenging times– that brings up our patterns, whether in the physical,…
Continue reading It’s Not a Circus// Finding Yoga and Maybe Meaning in Architecturally Complex Postures
These days, as I ready myself to sit, I gaze out the window of my studio at a tremendously tall Doug Fir tree about a block away. My part of town has lots of them, but this one commands my attention through each season, every…
Continue reading You Can’t Hurry Love/ Why Practice
By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward those who are happy, compassion to those who are suffering, delight toward the virtuous and equanimity toward detractors, one’s thoughts are purified and the obstacles to self-realization are lessened. {Yoga Sutra 1.33} We are still working through Yoga Sutra…
Continue reading Objectivity, Compassion and Equanimity as Acts of Self-love
Hi Lovelies, I’ll be back with more goodness to share about Ojai Yoga Crib tomorrow (my sessions with Patricia Sullivan and Dana Trixie Flynn are still to come!), but for now… a few updates about my teaching schedule. My public class schedule is as follows:…
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Erich Schiffmann. He is love. He is a mirror. And so are you. I have been looking for a way to study with Erich for a long time. One of my teachers in Colorado introduced me to his book (Moving into Stillness, which I have…
Continue reading Ojai Yoga Crib Love Notes, Part 2: Erich Schiffmann Immersion
Ever since that bombastically beautiful Harvest Moon a few weeks ago, I have been feeling the pull of the earth more profoundly. Fall has descended. My attention is turning inward, and this leaves me with a wonderful sense of relief. Pratyahara has become the queen…
Continue reading Turning Inward: Pratyahara
hello loves, Thanks so much for being here. Today I am so happy to share two videos on back-bending: specifically on practices leading toward urdhva dhanurasana (upward facing bow). Trina was kind enough to write to me about this posture and I offer several flows…
Continue reading Video Blogging Challenge Days 4-5– Back-bending with Intention