June is Pride Month; Acceptance, compassion towards others, embracing your individual identity
I first want to start this blog by referring you to my website, yogaforourlives.org. It is my hope to establish this non-profit organization implementing yoga and mindfulness into school curriculum to infuse in our children adaptive coping skills to moderate extreme emotions, resulting in violence, bullying, and mean behaviors. It is also my hope to […]
Necessary change in our schools; working on prevention of violence and hatred in our youth
Instead of writing a normal type blog this week, I have decided to post the key steps to a non-profit organization (yogaforourlives) that I’m currently working on in order to introduce yoga/mindfulness and moving meditation into our school curriculum at a young age. I am now in the process of building the yogaforourlives.org, which will […]
The Challenge and the Importance of SVASANA
We live in such a fast paced society that sometimes we make judgments that are too rash without taking the energy or time to do our research or listen to others. Before I fully immersed myself in teaching yoga and in the teachings of yoga other than the one of the eight limbs, the asanas, […]
The Dangers of the competition, self-judgment and external judgment, and ego in a Yoga Practice
As part of my healing stage, I have been interested in injury prevention (I never want to go through this again if I can help it!) Not only is injury prevention key in the recovery process from an actual injury (preventing reinjury), but also as a yoga instructor I feel obligated to provide the safest […]
What it means to be human
When it rains it pours. Maybe I was just getting cocky and believed that I had really overcome or defeated the “rock” by hiking more than half way up Pine Cobble mountain with my straight legged splint, digging the rock, and carrying the probably 25 pound rock down the hill. Placing it right outside the […]
Acceptance – Temporary vs. Permanent
Another week. I’ve made it 5 weeks with the straight-legged brace (now only using on long walks). With the straight-legged knee brace off, I’m working on range of motion of the knee. 5 weeks ago, king pigeon with bending the left knee was no problem; pigeon was no problem; tree was no problem. As much […]
Courage versus fear; progression and expansion versus stasis and contraction
As I reflected over this past week, I was wondering to myself what one trait or word could I use to describe how I am able to be resilient despite many of my past traumas. My friend asked me this week that very question, “how do you keep going, parenting, teaching yoga, having the energy […]
Hope is in the moment; week 3 broken leg
Tuesday Week number three with straight splint/broken knee as a mother, yoga instructor, wife, new owner of business, and avid exerciser in order to get those endorphins! Today – yes – SUNSHINE – walked and walked (as advised). 8 miles passed and I felt, “my goodness I’m stronger.” I did my leg exercises and felt […]
The Worry And Catastrophic Spiral from an Injured Yoga Instructor; what I learned from 6 year olds!
In my yoga classes for kids, I always discuss the worry tree, especially before we enter into svasana or our “special place,” which my children’s teacher training manual always described as the “secret garden.” This past Monday, I the students were given the freedom to use any props, scarves, beanie babies, anything they wanted, extra […]
WHAM!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS? KIDDING ME?
Wow, I do bend my legs a lot more than I thought! The day after I broke my patella (“truly busted it” in the words of the ER doc – just what you want to hear), I went into my son’s classroom with my kid-friendly skeleton book to show them why I had a knee […]