New Year, New Resolution. Inhale, I am here, and exhale, I was there and should be over there. You are now – Welcome 2026
Inhale the skills, friendships, and beauty of 2025 – hold it with you – exhale and let go of the toxins, unhealthy relationships, and turbulence that were holding you down, pushing you back, and destroying your own sense of self-worth and identity. Personally, there is so much that has happened in 2025 – my health, […]
A Necessary Awakening to a Life-Threatening Pandemic of Numbness to Trauma
We need to live in a world where we hear, read, and see the uncertainty around us, not the controlled society that we have manufactured through AI, an internet game, or through social media. If a mass shooting on a college campus during finals is not eye-opening and leads us to listen, hear, and act […]
Changes? Yoga on the move; we are always on the move
A Life in Flow; Back to an everyday practice of breathing and being both on and off the mat (Mindfulness and Yoga)
Colorado; Trip Like No Other – A Stream of Consciousness About Challenges, Anxiety, Fear, and Coping
Well, at this point it’s almost embarrassing to give my update. In Colorado, “relaxing” vacation, supposed to ski a couple of runs or so each day, have some independent time with my husband, and really try to heal. Well – day 3, my mother has a burst cyst in her calf – beyond painful and […]
Trauma adds to trauma; resiliency is more challenging, messy, but possible with acceptance
(NOTE – I’m typing with a painful hand and some of these images may be disturbing and the grammar may be pathetic – but it’s my blog 🙂 First teaching with one arm, 2 weeks 5 days post 5 hour surgery, 3 weeks post 1 hour surgery – 2 metal plates, wires, box of screws, […]
TWO YEARS: AN ENDEMIC AND THE LONG PANDEMIC
Two years with COVID and weeks into a war with atrocities that can never be fully imagined, described, or even believed that the human race can do this to one another. Physical horrors of COVID have certainly lessened; scientists have worked quickly to ramp up vaccine production and treatments so that COVID can be endemic […]
Trauma, powerlessness and vulnerability in large powerful institutions
I always thought that putting myself together, lining things in order, being OCD and fastidious about little things, feeling a sense of “control” if I touched the doorknob a certain amount of times or lined things up a certain way, being an overachiever in everything that I tried and was instructed to do, and always […]
Finding inner strength AND the importance of the daily check-in. Fly, hike, invert, or konk out!
So, in case you have not checked it out yet, workshop 3 is focused on flying, inverting, and flying again! I break it up into different step by step exercises in order to first open the hips, engage the core and fold while opening the hips, step by step into our tripod headstand, then step […]
Acceptance of the unknown in the New Year; my experience and my story
Happy New Year! It’s been a long time since I wrote. As many of you know, I’m currently expecting and due the first week of March. This was a very unexpected pregnancy and I must say that breaking my leg one week after opening the studio and then getting pregnant was probably not the best […]
A Compilation of Mindfulness Exercise Favorites for Kids and Adults!
Mindfulness Games for Community Building/Stress release (great resource is the Mindful Games Activity Cards – Susan Kaiser Greenlard with Annaka Harris. Some of these exercises have also been adapted from Jon Kabbat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course) · Some Favorites (though there are many more!) · Feeling my Feet · Ask students to stand, eyes […]