Forgiveness
As intuition often works, the persistence of the idea ‘forgiveness’ had been peaking its head into my thoughts over the past couple of weeks. I finally had time to give it some focus and to make it the intention of last week’s yoga classes. This piece is long, but I believe it to be important. […]
Maloto
I have to do an about face for Decembers “Manifest Monthly: Yoga Workshops to Deepen Your Physical Practice While Giving Back” organization! And, today is Giving Tuesday, so what better day to announce this deeply meaningful organization to me than today! For Decembers ‘Manifest Monthly’, we will be giving proceeds to Maloto! Maloto means “to dream” in the local […]
Call Upon Your Inner Bear!
Think back to a time when you acted fearless. Think back to a moment in your life when you were so confident that nothing would stop you. Think to a moment in your life when you really stood up for your beliefs. Think to that moment where you stood up for someone else, took care […]
M.A.D.E. Manifest!
Announcing my FIRST “Manifest Monthly: Yoga workshops to deepen your physical practice while giving back”! Our FIRST organization we will be supporting: ‘M.A.D.E. Transitional Services’! I had the great honor of meeting the founders of M.A.D.E.-Transitional Services, “Making A Difference Everyday”, through my dear friend and soul sister, Dr. Deborah Adamy. At the time, she was […]
Stone and Moss/Soft Landings
Spirit had told me to go take a walk in the woods. So, on a cold and overcast afternoon in late October I did just that. I happen to be in Garrison, New York, leading retreat and found a few moments to myself before leading the next class. I took off my hiking boots and […]
The Jewel of Surrender/Ishvara Pranidhana
This past week I lost a dear friend/client to cancer. It had me questioning the purpose of life. What is life? This mystery, this unknown? And then I began to think about surrender. How does one surrender to the unknown? The mystery? In my own words, to surrender to the unknown and unknowable can help […]
Martha Graham and Keeping the Channel Open
Last week on spanda, ‘pulsation’, there was a sentence that really stuck out to me. “When we go deep within ourselves, and we sense this pulsation, spanda, we are sensing our own personal spark of that huge, primordial life force”.-spanda . org. It reminded me of a quote that I have on my altar. It […]
Spanda
For the past few weeks, I have especially, and particularly been feeling pulls between inner contradictory ways of feeling. With the loss of all physical studio spaces that I teach at due to the Corona virus, and simultaneous excitement of possibilities for the future, I have felt awkward. Awkward has been the best word I […]
Never Dreamed I Would Write This Letter
It often happens that source inspires my intentions for my classes. It also often happens that the intentions that source inspires coincide with the situations of my life. This past week was no different. Thank Spirit! (Those are my feet in the mirror in that picture above. A last picture of closing up physical space […]
Dedicate and Dedication
Dedicate means devote to a particular task or purpose. Dedicate also means to use space, time, or money for a particular thing. I would like to extend that last definition by saying dedication is to use our breath, our energy, our consciousness, and our hearts for a particular thing. I often feel in my own […]