Home Practices To Promote Good Energy, Openness, And Relaxation

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Home Practices To Promote Good Energy, Openness, And Relaxation

To help keep up our spirits high at this darker time of year – it is no coincidence that this season offers many opportunities to celebrate light, warmth, and communing with others. Keep in mind, as you join in celebration – to not also pack your schedule and your self with undue stress, overstimulation, and excessive heavy foods. It will create more challenge as you settle more into the deepness of winter and come out in spring with more colds, allergies, and mucus to rid your self of.  How you move through winter of course, effects your blooming in spring.

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Give Thanks, Rest, and Digest

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Give Thanks, Rest, and Digest

There is a new generation of gratitude researchers out there who are examining the health effects of gratitude. Some of the findings are really amazing.

The Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude program, a collaboration between UC Davis and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, which studies the the psychology, sociology and neuroscience of well-being published research that shows, "when we think about someone or something we really appreciate and experience the feeling that goes with the thought, the parasympathetic (calming-branch) of the autonomic nervous system is triggered.

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A Gift to Help You Practice Moving Into The Heart All Month

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A Gift to Help You Practice Moving Into The Heart All Month

When we practice, we feel better in our bodies and mind. When we are more grounded, relaxed and present, it ups the odds that we will not only feel better about our selves and our lives, but we will have a more kind and peaceful presence in the world.  This is good for our families, loved ones, friends, co workers... really everyone we come in to contact with. So in a very real way, your time on the mat helps make the planet a more peaceful place. This means, your time on the mat - makes my family's world a better place. So, personally, I truly thank you! 

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Here We Are: Feeling Grateful In The Moment

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Here We Are: Feeling Grateful In The Moment

I remember when I first started practicing yoga, I would finish and feel like I’d just returned from a vacation. How ironic that this incredible feeling of rejuvenation came from showing up more, rather than escaping – being more 'here' than 'there.' In fact, after my first few classes, I wrote a letter to my cousin Ally describing how at home I felt practicing yoga that day: 

“Wow. I feel so much relief. Layers of tension just melted. I feel space in my body everywhere. And in my mind, too!

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FALL(ing) into balance

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FALL(ing) into balance

I'd been teaching yoga for about 6 years when I’d had my first panic attack. My 34-year-old sister-in-law had died recently and I’d gone to help pack up her possessions.  On the way home, I felt like I myself was about to die. Driving from Maryland to New York City, my arms went numb, I became dizzy and short of breath, my vision blurred and my muscles were shaking and weak. I was sure I was having a heart attack.

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