The Power of Now

I hope you all are doing well. I am just a few days home from my retreat and it was wonderful. I included some pictures below but it is truly hard to capture in photos. I can only describe my re-entry as arriving home in a stupor of amazement that I get to do this…

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Judgment Steals Joy

I hope you all had a great week. I cannot believe that my KLARITY Mindsette RESET in Marathon Key is just a few days away. I am so excited!!! As a result of that, my schedule will be modified over the next two weeks so see below for my schedule. Last week I shared that…

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This Moment is THE Moment

I hope you all had a great week. I was very grateful to have a few days away with my family. It served as an opportunity to slow down, but that wasn’t as easy for me to do as I had hoped. It took a couple of days for me to settle and during those…

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Intentions help us Heal

Yoga at sunset on beach

Happy New Year! After my New Years Day class today I will be traveling for the rest of the week so I thought I would share my New Year message in this newsletter.  There is so much focus on the changing of the year. We make RESOLUTIONS; expectations of meaningful change, that are usually difficult…

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Learning to Allow

I hope those that celebrate had a very Merry Christmas. The holidays can be a time filled with a range of emotions; joy, gratitude, sadness, loss, and disappointment. This holiday season is definitely filled with mixed emotions for me. This being the first Christmas without my mother-in-law as well as a last minute family visit…

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Happiness is a Choice

I hope you all had a great week. As a yoga teacher and mindfulness coach I often talk about gratitude. Over the years I have done lots of reading on the science behind gratitude and there is, in fact, lots of scientific evidence to support a gratitude practice. Especially when things are challenging, when we…

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The Value of Time

I hope you all had a great week. My son got his license a few weeks ago and he is anxious to drive longer distances on busy roads at night to visit friends. In the spirit of the well known truth that whatever we practice we will get better at my son and I have…

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The Power of Acceptance

I hope you all are doing well. The heaviness in the world has definitely given way to moments of hopelessness in many of us. For myself it usually starts with feeling disconnected from my purpose combined with a feeling of helplessness. From there often judgment takes over. With practice I have learned to see the…

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The Partnership of Grief & Gratitude

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday with family and friends. I certainly did! I was very grateful for all of the people I got to see and spend time with. I was also super happy to be back seeing some of my old students and teaching at Hastings Yoga last week. The theme…

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The Power of Attention & Intention

The essence of Buddhism and Mindfulness can be boiled down to two words; INTENTION & ATTENTION. There is a complete interconnectedness between our sense of what truly matters (intention) and how we pay attention. It is really powerful when we deploy these two concepts at the same time. When we connect to what truly matters…

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