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, […]
Oh no! Where did the summer go!!!!?
What does your end of summer feel like? Do you have the end of the summer blues? The wishes of what you had done, what you set out to DEFINITELY accomplish or venture to do that last day in June when “school let out” or your job became a little more relaxed? Did you organize […]
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 […]
The new breath? The new norm? Getting back to our breath, life, and freedom
My research, training, and practice has always been founded on linking mind, body, and spirit through movement-based exercises that directly connect the body with the breath so that we can experience movement and awareness through meditation. Even as a trauma-informed practitioner and someone who has experienced multiple traumas myself, I have been able to find […]
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 […]
Competing, comparing, self-care, and self-compassion
Hi All, Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted even though I had promised myself that I would try to post at least once every other week, clearly that has not happened. So, with that “failed” goal in mind, this is where I will start. Just now, my statement “failed goal,” was one […]
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 […]
Twisting, turning, straight, flexed, relaxed, recenter, reengage and adapt: YOGA AND MOTHERHOOD!
Hi All, I meant to post this blog pre-Mother’s Day, but I didn’t get around to it! I do feel like this last mini-workshop (tripod to side crows) and today’s 55 minutes class, which did a lot of focus on the core, twisting, and obliques, as well as stability, is very fitting for Mother’s Day. […]
Challenging yoga poses and challenging obstacles in life, require strengthening of the body and mind
This week as I continue to get stronger, but still feel the discomfort of surgery (and perhaps just my body settling into it’s new “structure” shall we say) along with the discomforts of normal aches and pains that I’m told (but have difficulty accepting) we all get after the age of 35, I’ve decided to […]