Are you a white person who is afraid of being called a racist? It wouldn’t surprise me if you were, but I invite you to step into the liberating svadhyaya (self-study) practice of admitting your racism. I am a white woman living the United States.…
Continue reading The Liberating Svadhyaya of Admitting our Racism
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, dear family. We reached the milestone of 200 episodes of this podcast smack in the middle of a series and smack in the middle of what feels like eternal international upheaval. I want to mark both of these vastly different moments in time with…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 202// On Podcasting, Practice and Living the Yoga
Dear Community, This next post began as a newsletter. I sent it out to my email list the other day. The outpouring of support that I have received from our yoga family here made me realize that I should probably share it here, publicly, as…
Continue reading Using Your Voice// What You Say Matters
Hi Sweeties! It is time for our seasonal check-in podcast! Talking about the lessons of the previous season and the goals and inspiration for the new season. I LOVE the conversations that theses podcasts spark. SHARE YOUR STORY! What were the challenges and gifts of…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 189// Seasonal Check-In
Solstice pulled me back. There was a palpable shift the moment the light began its steady return. Or something. Before then, there was a clash between autumn’s air-space and winter’s wet earth. I was feeling bound to earth and restless at the skin. All year…
Continue reading Practice Notes// What to do if you’re feeling stuck and restless
This is a 60-minute hatha class focusing on the shoulders, lower back and core. We move toward a therapeutic head-stand. Thank you for being here. Beloved you, One of the hardest lessons for me to learn/ know in my bones: just because I can do…
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chirp. sigh. roar. blue-gold-blazing coral. cedar & hemlock commingle under my hands. commercial flights begin their ebb and flow in earnest around 6am. for a time, this is their sky. once the initial flurry of their wings, beaks and spindly tucked-up legs has passed, the…
Continue reading chirp-sigh-soar// a poem
Today is supposed to be my first day back on Instagram and Facebook after an almost month-long hiatus. I haven’t logged in or posted yet, though, because I wanted to, first, be really sure that I do want to go back (in the case of Facebook,…
Continue reading Notes from a Month Away from Facebook and Instagram// Nervous System RE-BOOT
The work will find you. Yes. The ritual reveals itself. Amen. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Word. Summer is the time of year when I focus most acutely on my own learning. Not just the substance or content I’m absorbing, but the…
Continue reading some lessons of summer// the gift of grace