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…
Scaling Movement I recently made an Instagram Reel of Skandasana, a side lunge position. In the reel I showed how I can go from standing legs wide apart down into skandasana and back up, but how this may not be accessible to everyone. Here is a link to that 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’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…
Restorative Yoga Didn’t Used to be My Cup of Tea… OR How I came to appreciate restorative yoga – wherever you are, there you are When I was in my 20’s and dancing was my main squeeze, I began to have a fling with yoga. I was lucky enough to Read more…
I had every intention of continuing my tome on spinal movement in this next blog post, but I’ve become completely enchanted by an instragram yoga posture challenge I’m participating in. It’s fulfilling a deep need (or a kick in the ass) to explore my asana practice more deeply and write Read more…
One of my neighbors just told me a story. Mark explained that the police regularly stop him. Mark is a person of color. Recently he was treated particularly badly and disrespectfully during one of those stops. My guess is that Mark is targeted due to the fact he is not Read more…