Blog
All posts are my original content (not A.I.)
April 22, 2024
What does "OM" mean?
The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of this ancient practice.
February 1, 2024
Yoga Party!
A Yoga Party is an event where participants come together to engage in yoga and wellness activities in a social and celebratory atmosphere. These events are often organized for special occasions like birthdays, corporate events, bachelorette parties, baby showers, or simply as a unique way to bring people together for a shared wellness experience.
January 26, 2024
5 Tips to Teaching Yoga for Seniors
After 13 years of teaching Yoga primarily focused on making the practices accessible and therapeutic for seniors, these are my 5 tips for teaching successful and safe group classes.
January 16, 2024
Keeping a Spiritual Diary, a Record of Observed Facts
A spiritual diary adds focus to journaling by answering a list of set questions of your choice that help you stay on track with your spiritual practices and goals.
December 12, 2023
Ayurvedic Winter Warming Routine:
3 Tips
Our wellness practices often need to shift to keep us in balance during the changing seasons. Winter, in particular, is a wonderful season for deep reflective sadhana (practice.)
December 1, 2023
The Six Spiritual Wealths-
Shat Sampathi
The 6 Spiritual Wealths are one part of Sadhana Chatushtaya as described by Sri Adi Sankaracharya in Tattva Bodha: mastery over your mind and senses, inner resilience, contentment, faith, and balance. There is great utility for all in developing these virtues, not just for yogis.
November 6, 2023
Shoulder Safety- Variations on Cobra
Cobra pose requires a lot of extension in the shoulder joint and can sometimes be uncomfortable for seniors, or if you have had an injury or surgery. There are other options that achieve the same therapeutic benefit without the demand on the shoulder joint.
October 13, 2023
3 Tips to Keep Up Your Practice While Traveling
Whether for work or pleasure, traveling gets us out of our daily habits. In some ways this is a good thing and can be helpful.
June 27, 2023
Soil and Your Health
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector...
May 11, 2023
The Hummingbird and The Breath
I held a hummingbird in my hand today. I went into the studio to teach and as I was setting up props for students I heard a fluttering humming sound. I looked towards the fixed window and saw a tiny hummingbird stuck inside trying to escape. By calming myself through a few deep breaths I was able to hold him in my hands and free him outside
April 1, 2023
Spring Cleaning: Body, Mind and Home
After a long cold winter, spring is finally here! The change of seasons brings a renewed motivation and inspiration. Energetically this is a good time to begin or recommit to healthy habits and clean and clear out our body, mind, and home.
March 1, 2023
Ayurvedic Abhyanga Massage
Abhyanga is an Ayurvedic self oil massage of your muscles, joints, bones and organs. A daily Abhyanga practice restores the balance of the doshas and enhances well-being.
February 16, 2023
Paving the Road to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
Currently, the general treatment for Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is close monitoring of daily blood glucose levels with injections of insulin. Patients typically continue these treatments indefinitely after onset. What if there was a way to restore the body back to optimal health and function? Cutting-edge research is being done in the fields of immunotherapy, regenerative medicine, bioengineering and a possible vaccine which could pave the way to a durable cure for T1DM.
February 13, 2023
Mental Fitness: Exercise Your Brain
The importance of physical fitness is well known. Mental fitness is just as important as physical fitness. Including practices into your daily routine that target your mental wellbeing will help you keep your body and mind as healthy as possible.
January 5th, 2023
5 Steps to Simple Living
Some days feel like a run on of checking one box after the next and by the end of the week we are exhausted: mentally, physically, and emotionally. In this article I lay out my 5 steps to a simple life.
Basil Harvest!
December 6, 2022
A Dedicated Home Practice
Daily sadhana (practice) is part of self-care and aligning with our soul’s deepest desire. It is a commitment to show up. No matter where we are in life, we can tap into that deep well within us of strength and clarity.
August 30, 2022
Beginning Yoga
Dear one reading this, you are perfect to begin exactly as you are right now as you enter into this gift of a new day. To take another step towards your goals, to become fearless, to become free from our limiting beliefs and narratives. To transform ourselves, to uplift our spirits and inspire and elevate your entire being is the greatest joy; it is the greatest, most wonderful task for which life can be utilized.
September 11, 2022
The Gift of Satsang
Sat: truth, sang: together or company
Satsang is a gathering with yogic community to uplift our mind and spirit. The intention in satsang is to think and talk of deeper and higher things in life, beyond the mundane material life.
Books on Yoga
Reading and studying is a wonderful way to deepen and broaden our understanding of Yoga. I am putting together on ongoing list of books that have imparted knowledge and inspired me along the way.
