Night Vision One of our favorite picture books is Dahlov Ipcar’s “The Cat at Night.” The book follows a cat, whose people believe him to be fast asleep all night, on many adventures through the long, dark, wonderful night. Cats can see at night, and…
Continue reading Full Moon in Virgo Practices
in order to do anything worth doing (i know that’s a big statement), i’ve had to die to a particular idea of who or what i am. leaving a respectable, lucrative career. having kids. traveling in any capacity away from my home/sanctuary of familiar. every…
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Returning to this space after an un/intended hiatus feels correct. Grounded, even, in spite of the liminal quality to anything digital. In spite of efforts to the contrary, somehow engaging with social media over the last odd years took me away from the regular practice…
Continue reading how to begin again (part ii)
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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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
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 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
This morning, like most, I sat with the rising sun. We see her rise later now. 5am is so much darker, though so much warmer, now than it was a month ago. Even in silent stillness, the world is alive. The world moves. The universe…
Continue reading A Study in Sight// Letting Each Other Find What We Need
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//