For many years, on the Wednesday night before the US Thanksgiving – what I considered the start of the “official holiday season rush”, I offered Chakra Restorative Yoga to a full house at Bear Foot Yoga Studio. Traditionally, that Wednesday is a big drinking night at the bars. Loved ones return home and travelers talk …
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Vacationing to see family can be a trigger and that is where I am as I write this. The joke is that if you want to test your mental strength and spiritual attainment, spend time with family. I have always been and continue to be “too sensitive”. Doing embodied practices does not desensitize me. Quite …
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Welcome into June! As a lifelong Northern hemisphere dweller, June has always been my favorite month, if only for the beauty of the landscape and abundant light. My recent move to new weather patterns has made “June” one of my favorite words in the English language. A walk down the Irish boreen brings me yellow …
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It was so fun to have a yogi friend visit this week. We got to play on the new wall ropes, use the yoga toys and props from the old Bear Foot Yoga Studio and buy a new gong! My dear friend Liz first showed up in my life at an “Introduction to Yoga” workshop …
Do you want to know what meditation is? If you practice yoga, did you know that yoga postures and meditation are inextricably linked? Meditation is the highest form of yoga. There are common misconceptions around the terms meditation and mindfulness, and dare I say liberation. This is the definition of meditation from the point of …
I did a twelve minute interview on mindbodyradio.com today and you can listen HERE. Since I am more comfortable writing than public speaking, after the interview, I wrote down what I wish I would have said about being a Yoga Therapist and studio owner. What do you do?I offer a variety of accessible weekly classes …
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The classic teaching of all wisdom traditions is that humans suffer because we forget who we are – Divine BE-ings. We forget who we are because as humans we are hard-wired pleasure seeking survivalist. We seek enjoyment and relief from agitation and pain from things outside of ourselves – drugs (both the prescription kind and the ones that will get you in jail), alcohol, food, working too much, and in our relationships with others. The yogic path reveals that who we seek and what we need is buried inside of us under all of our human roles and repetitions of self-defeating stories.
Mindful observation is a skill we can use in our daily lives at any time, not just in a quiet meditation. And fearlessness is not the absence of fear; Fearlessness is mindful observation that results in the awareness and perception of fear. When we practice meditation or any mindfulness practice, there is an awakening of …
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