Handstand Tip #1: Playing with Balance

For our upcoming Nail It! Handstand Workshop on July 13, Niki Saccareccia and I, along with our host studio Aeriform Arts, are doing a month-long handstand challenge. (Please, join us!) This week, we’re asking students to show us pics each day of where...

How to Leap Into the Unknown

“you’re going to get stuck…can you stay creative in that stuck place?” In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali lists 9 obstacles along the way as we move toward our goals. One of them is lethargy, that heavy stuck feeling. I like how this scientist views...

Imagine Immensities… Some Tuesday Inspiration

“Every once in a while — often when we least expect it — we encounter someone more courageous, someone who chose to strive for that which (to us) seemed unrealistically unattainable, even elusive. And we marvel. We swoon. We gape. Often , we are in awe. I think...

“It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.
When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
Its never too late to take a moment to look.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

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