Your Body Is Not a Mess Part One: How Pain Science Informed the Way I Talk About My Body I’m writing the next couple blog posts to share my ongoing journey with changing my own “self talk” regarding my body. We’ll call this Part One – How I Learned Read more…
Last Thursday I took an excellent online zoom yoga class from my friend and colleague, Christina Sell. Christina and I share common tendencies and similarities in our teaching. Christina is also very different from me, too, which is great because I already practice by myself and guide myself on a Read more…
I woke up this morning at 6:15 to make my daughter a strong cup of black coffee before she drove off to take a difficult professional exam for her area of expertise. I did not wake up today expecting to be amazed. We’re at a hotel somewhere Read more…
Making a decision It’s been an event filled week. Not really the week I expected, actually. I found myself in the process of making quick decisions with real world consequences. I kept coming back to something I recently read on Seth Godin’s blog: “based on new information, I’ve made Read more…
I’ve been thinking a lot about a question I am often asked – “what do you do for a living?”. It’s a complex answer for me because telling people that I teach movement is sort of a vague answer, although really that’s what I consider my “work” to be – a Read more…
Have you ever experienced that moment where someone says something to you and although you’ve heard the words before, somehow this time they penetrate your thick skull and hard emotional armor? There are times in my life when I can clearly remember the exact life changing words that someone has Read more…
I’m now old enough to have experienced the waxing and waning of passion and love in many of my steady relationships. This includes my relationship to people, movement/exercise, life-long learning, spiritual practice, and my yoga practice. These particular relationships are all very long term for me, and very Read more…