Happy June! As I was considering what to write this month, I kept getting the same message over and over. That which we resist, persists. I have heard this over and over again from my own teachers and also teach it myself. However, as simple as it may sound as a concept, it is not something that comes easily to most of us. We are taught early in life to separate things into good and bad. Then, as life unfolds, we are encouraged by examples from others to complain about and resist the things that we deem as bad and Read the full article…

Happy middle of the month! I am typing at 30,000 feet on my way to Nashville. People often ask how we are doing all the traveling back and forth and exclaim how hard it must be. I usually tend to agree but lately, I have been stopping myself and saying instead, ‘it is going great because this is what we are choosing.’ As I reflect on this further, I acknowledge that yes, it may be hard sometimes, but it is what we have chosen for ourselves and we did it consciously. Anytime we are aware of and dedicated to our Read the full article…

Happy May! I just got back from Costa Rica and am feeling incredibly inspired by so many things, particularly the work that other people in the world are doing to make a difference by restoring and preserving our natural resources while at the same time creating a sustainable future through permaculture practices. It was such a profound experience and I left feeling a little overwhelmed and wondering where to start in my own life in order to make a difference. A teacher I admire once said, “No one else is coming.” In other words, it is up to me, to Read the full article…

Happy March and Happy 9th Birthday to Yoga Blend! I have just arrived in Lenox, Massachusetts for the graduation of a year long training in Positive Psychology and I am very much looking forward to finally having some time to integrate and organize all that I have learned so I can bring the science of what makes us happier to Yoga Blend! If it weren’t for this very significant and required part of my training, I would definitely be at Yoga Blend this week to celebrate the anniversary of the place so many of us call our yoga home. I Read the full article…

Happy middle of the month! I’ll be honest, I have been struggling about what to write for this newsletter so I decided to just start with being okay with being uninspired. As we all know very well, life is wonderful, beautiful and sweet in so many ways and completely challenging, sad and frustrating in many others. Sometimes we feel great and other times we feel awful. Sometimes ‘good’ things happen and sometimes ‘bad’ things happen. Sometimes we’re in the mood to dance and other times we just want to lie on the couch. Sometimes we have something to share and Read the full article…

Happy February and Mid Winter! We are a month into the new year which is a good time to check our pace and see how we are doing with what it is we want to create for the year. How’s it going for you? For many years, I would set a goal for the New Year and if I ‘failed’ the first month, I would just give up. I would feel I wasn’t good enough or truly committed enough. My self esteem would plummet and I would wallow in how hard it is to make change and stay there feeling Read the full article…

I hope you are having a great start to your year! It is easy for me to get caught up in worrying about the future, so this year, I decided to come up with an underlying one word theme for myself. I chose sraddha (pronounced shrod-ha). Sraddha is a Sanskrit word meaning something similar to faith, confidence or trust. The context in which I discovered this word is in one of the Yoga Sutras (which is the manual for the Philosophy of Yoga). In Sutra 1.20, sraddha is a quality that comes from a deeply unique and personal understanding of Read the full article…

Happy New Year!  I hope you have had a wonderful Holiday being surrounded by family and friends.  I am sitting in a hotel room in Chicago as I type.  My husband and I are here for a 4 day New Year’s Event where the theme is ‘Incredible’ and the question is ‘What would make this event an incredible one for you and what are you willing to do to make it so?’  It’s really had Jason and I thinking and that line of thinking has lead me beyond this week and into the upcoming year.  What am I willing to Read the full article…