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I hope you are all doing well. This past week I was struggling with my personal meditation practice. My “monkey mind” was taking over and I couldn’t settle down enough to find any space. The “monkey mind” is a description of our thoughts swinging “from branch to branch to branch” like a monkey in a tree. Often times,…

As a yoga teacher there are terms that I say very often when I am teaching;  two of them “soften into your resistance” and  “meet your edge and soften” essentially mean the same thing; to focus on learning how to be kind to our bodies and soften when we feel our body holding onto tightness. This softening into resistance offers us more resiliency,…

Happy Monday! I shared the Buddhist principle; Generosity leads to Abundancewith my students this past week. I have found in my own experience that there is an additional element we need when cultivating true abundance in our lives, and that is authenticity. When we make choices based on both of these qualities we have the chance to…

I hope you all are having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. I heard this great quote last week that stayed with me.  I love the simplicity of the statement and the powerful truth behind it. This message became our practice for the week.  “You can be bitter or you can be better but you can’t be…

This past week my family suffered a difficult loss. My husband’s mother passed away after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Our family has been processing a range of emotions. There is sadness, loss, grief and also relief that she is no longer suffering and gratitude that she is now at peace. A death after a prolonged illness is an…

I hope you all had a great week. I taught an arm balancing workshop over the weekend. It has been a while since I had done that and it was really fun to get back to it. As I was reviewing what I had done previously and made some tweaks in preparation for the workshop…

I hope you all are doing well. I just started working with a couple who are going through unspeakable grief, the loss of their only child. There is a common belief in our culture that time heals all wounds. What I shared with them and with my classes this past week is that is not the case.…

Sometimes we move through a period of dramatic shifts and transitions in our lives, and at other times, things can feel more static. As most of you know, for me, the last year has been one of many changes; leaving my old special life to start a new one in a new state in addition to sending…

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. As I mentioned last week in this newsletter, I am working through a flare up of an old injury and that brings old thought patterns. One of the habits of thought I notice during these times is a bit of bargaining with the universe for my own…

This past week was full of nostalgia. I spent a few days in New Orleans;  the city I spent my college career, met my husband and some of my dearest friends and where I had a really good time! It was a blast to spend time at my old school and with friends (and my…