Mar 15, 2022 | Blog, Practice, Svadyaya
I was in class with my teacher Tracee Stanley the other day and she asked us to contemplate what we have faith in. After two pandemic years followed by this new time of devastation in the world, the cliche platitudes I might have grasped in the past don’t hold up....
Feb 15, 2022 | Blog, Svadyaya
I spent my drive out to Colorado in the fall listening to the podcast You’re Wrong About. If you haven’t listened, the idea is this: in each episode the hosts reconsider a zeitgeist moment from the past with the 20/20 vision that only comes from hindsight. So,...
Jan 20, 2022 | Blog, Nourish, Practice
Turns out, I *like* winter. The snow makes 19-degree temperatures in Northern Colorado somehow worth it. I spent a good deal of yesterday mesmerized by the snow falling on the empty branches of a tree just outside the window where I teach yoga. I probably quote too...
Aug 29, 2021 | Blog, Love, Practice
Earlier this month I introduced forward folds by saying that they support healing because they can bring our nervous system into the parasympathetic state of rest and digest, or as I recently saw it termed, repair and growth. The truth is any yoga pose can be a yoga...
Aug 1, 2021 | Blog, Nourish
It’s been a month! How are you? I’m still teaching from Colorado for another two weeks as I continue to rest and heal my body. When I left LA in June, I barely had energy to walk my dog. My body kept having an allergic reaction to more and more foods and my skin was...
Jun 25, 2021 | Blog, Listen
I have arrived in Colorado and will be teaching online from here through mid-July. Each morning since arriving here I’ve practiced asana and yoga nidra outside to the sound of birds and wind in trees, and the occasional car or dog bark. It’s felt like a...
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