Surprise! I'm 6 months pregnant! It's been an easy pregnancy so far and I feel very lucky. So much of the experience is out of my control. Much of the ease has less to do with my behaviors and more to do with the mystery of...
Happy End of 2022!We've arrived at the very end of 2022! Just a handful of days to go before we wake up in the new year, which means we've come to the end of our December month of reflection.If you've been contemplating along with this...
What we've done so farIn this month's blog posts we've been talking about bringing the year 2022 to close through reflection and intention. The first week of December I asked you to swipe quickly through your phone photos to get a dream sequence blur of the moments...
Bringing the year to a closeTogether in these December week newsletters we are working towards consciously bringing 2022 to a close. We are taking time to be mindful and intentional about wrapping up the year so we can start with as clean a slate as...
December already?!It's December and we can all collectively exclaim How in the world is it December already? because time confuses us all.Forget New Years resolutions...
Some Yoga advice for high emotion environmentsWith the holiday season upon us, and with it the high emotions of reconnecting with family and friends while navigating obligations, expectations, and the weird way we seem to revert into family roles we thought we'd long since outgrown,...
Woo! Rah Rah Rah!Are you so excited because you get to vote and tomorrow is election day? I feel a steady rising power as I fill in my mail-in ballot bubbles here in Oregon. I remember a similar feeling when I served on a 3-day...
EducatedI've got a quote for you this week, this time one by Tara Westover from her exceptional memoir Educated. Tara was raised one of seven children, four of whom never set foot in a school classroom nor received any substantial homeschooling. Her father was a doomsday...
Surprised I'm not a chill person?A couple weeks ago we had some new friends over, friends we met through one of the yoga studios I work at, one of whom is familiar with the De(Stress) class series curriculum I'm bringing to the studio later this...
If you've wondered what is Restorative Yoga, here are some details.In a NutshellRestorative Yoga as a style is like a guided full relaxation through body, breath, and mind.For the BodyBody, because you set yourself up on the ground, comfy with pillows and blankets, in a...