Practice and Letting Go

Practice and Letting Go

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....
The Case For Moving Slowly Into a New Year

The Case For Moving Slowly Into a New Year

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...
Repair and Growth

Repair and Growth

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...
Wintering In L.A.

Wintering In L.A.

Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Nourish, Practice

January has felt like a year in itself. I have struggled to write an email that was coherent this month. I finally realized I’m wintering. Or as the writer Katherine May writes in her meditative book Wintering: “Wintering is a time of withdrawing from the world,...
Online Schedule as of 4/4

Online Schedule as of 4/4

Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Nourish, Practice

Slight time adjustment (it’s the way of the world these days!) My gentle/healthy backs class through Black Dog Yoga is now on Sundays from 11:30am-12:30pm. My Unwind+ Nidra class is now from 4-5pm. You can take either half or both. All else remains the same. For today...