For the past few months, I have had the honor of hosting a gathering called Self-Love Fridays here in Portland. It has been such sweet work: practicing yoga, learning from a rotating gallery of self-care experts and talking among ourselves about how to truly care…
Continue reading Practicing Self-Love// The Ritual of Joy
Hello Beauty-loves, I am thrilled about my latest local collaboration: Self-Love Fridays. This 8 week gathering combines super sukha-filled yoga movements with a range of other self-care practices, along with tea (always tea). My aim is creating space to explore and integrate self-care and self-love…
Continue reading Self-Love Fridays// Introducing Energy Medicine with Melina Donalson
Hi Beauties, Today’s podcast is filled with GOOD NEWS! Thank you for being here. LOVE LOVE LOVE, Kelly Listen// You can listen right here. You can also listen directly from any podcast app by searching for “sunrose yoga” or “samadhi rush” and subscribing. Subscribing means…
Continue reading Episode 134// NEWS!
Hi Beauties, I am writing just after cycling home from my Saturday morning gentle yoga class at The People’s Yoga. We go super-deep, ultra-subtle in this class. It is a space for true healing, real knowing of the interior experience. I love it. I am…
Continue reading News// Yoga Anytime
(A vritti is a fluctuation of mind. A whirlpool of thought.) While driving to the grocery store on Monday, scanning through radio stations I heard the Dire Straits song “Romeo & Juliet.” I love that song. The first time I heard it, I was…
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In ayurveda, yoga’s sister science of health, fall is the time of vata. Vata is characterized by cold, dryness, light and changeablity. I am particularly susceptible to autumn. Wind-swept, dry, scattered, bare-boned. My prakrti (nature, in ayurveda-speak) tends toward Vata, the way of the wind, anyway;…
Continue reading Contraction// Yoga for All Seasons
Let me be clear: I might not be the teacher for you. I won’t tell you what to do. I won’t micro-manage your experience. I won’t push you to “nail” a pose. Because your practice is so much more than a shape. Your practice is your life.…
Continue reading I Am This Way On Purpose// You Are Your Own Medicine, My Teaching Manifesto
One of my dreams as a yoga teacher has always been to devote an entire class to teaching practices other than asana. (Asanas are the shapes we make with our bodies in yoga classes.) Asana is amazing and transformative, but it’s not the whole enchilada.…
Continue reading Whole Yoga// The Other 7 Limbs
Oh dearest stars, I have missed you. My family and I have landed safely in our nest in Portland after a month of travel through Southeast Asia. We are trying to be patient as our bodies reconnect with the appropriate time-zone (2am wake-ups are brutal!). We…
Continue reading There’s Beauty in the Breakdown// The Yoga of Travel
Beloveds, I’m unpacking from a magical trip to the Northwoods of Minnesota for Truly North Retreat and reflecting on this experience. For the last few (or five) years, I have included “lead a yoga retreat” on my list of intentions for the year, but somehow…
Continue reading Being There// What I Learned Leading My First Yoga Retreat