Inspired this week by teacher Elsie Escobar on her Yoga Podcast Episode 46: “Just allow yourself to experience your body, your shape, this down dog right now, as something uniquely yours. So that you feel the shifting, your hamstrings, the back of your neck, your hands into the Earth, as a unique expression of yourself.” It [...]
Inspiration
Words with Friends
April 17th, 2013
My dear friends and family have reached out to support me in many ways since Monday’s tragedy. I wanted to share some of their pearls of wisdom in hopes they may bring comfort to anyone else who is in the process of grieving and healing at this time… “We have angels and various protectors all [...]
Inspired by: Deepak Chopra
March 14th, 2013
I am participating in a 21-Day Meditation Challenge, organized by Oprah and Deepak Chopra. It started officially on March 11th, but you can sign up anytime. They’ve been sending an e-mail with a daily theme and mantra suggestion, so it’s a really helpful guide for when I sit at night to meditate. Yesterday my beau [...]
Yoga Magnetic Poetry: Move!
February 28th, 2013
In January I participated in a month-long fitness and conditioning workshop at Emerald Necklace Martial Arts, where my beau currently takes karate (and where I taught yoga for a few months). I’ve never moved my body in this way- never worked with kettle bells or club bells…didn’t know bells could be so challenging! And I [...]
Inspired by: Jeanie Manchester
December 5th, 2012
I recently followed a practice on Yoga Download taught by Jeanie Manchester. I wanted to share a portion of her intro that truly resonated with me: “There’s a pulse inside you that is also outside. It’s in nature, it’s all around us, it’s in the stars, it’s in the pulse of the universe, and it’s [...]