The Creative Self: From Feeling to Purposeful Action

The Creative Self: From Feeling to Purposeful ActionExploring the Sacral and Solar Plexus Chakras, creativity, personal power, and the art of trusting ourselves. Somewhere along the way, many of us stopped asking ourselves what brings us joy and started asking what we should be doing next. We mea... Read More

The Chakras: Seven Doorways to Understanding Ourselves

The Chakras: Seven Doorways to Understanding Ourselves Exploring the ancient wisdom of the chakra system and its invitation to greater self-awareness. There is so much more to us than what we can see. We experience life through our physical bodies, but we also experience it through our emotions,... Read More

How I Meet the Heavy Days: Kriya Yoga in Everyday Life

This morning I woke up feeling like the world was a little heavier than usual. There wasn't one thing wrong. Nothing had happened overnight that I could point toward and say, There. That's why. It was more subtle than that. I simply woke up aware of the weight of being a human in this exact life.... Read More

The Bridge I Knew Before I Found It

Three years ago, I woke up in a hotel near the Albany airport thinking about a red covered bridge. I had flown in the night before and was on my way to Omega Institute for a retreat. My rental car was waiting outside, and sometime that morning I was supposed to point it north and make my way towa... Read More

Wonder Is a Practice: Learning to See What Is Already Here

Yesterday morning, I sat outside in my egg chair with a warm mug of mushroom coffee cupped between my hands. I was still in my pajamas, enjoying the cool morning air against my skin—the kind of cool that feels especially delicious when you know the heat of the day is coming. The sun was up, but t... Read More

Maybe the Pose Was Never the Point

My first experience with yoga was hot yoga. Like many people who find their way into a yoga studio, I wasn't there because I was searching for an ancient philosophy or a deeper understanding of myself. I was there largely for the physical benefits. Yoga was something I did with my body to get hea... Read More

Threshold Moments: Standing in the Doorway

I didn't know it at the time, but this photograph was taken at a threshold. I was in Colombia several years ago, and I had recently begun my yoga teacher training. I remember being fascinated by this enormous wooden doorway and being encouraged to pose in front of it for a picture. Looking at the... Read More

Come Back to Yourself: The Art of Intentional Self-Care

What do you do when life starts to get busy? When the calendar fills, the to-do list grows, people need you, and the pace of life begins to move a little faster than you do? Perhaps you keep going. You do what needs to be done. You show up for work, for family, for responsibilities, and for the p... Read More

Why Presence Matters

There was a time when I thought presence was almost black and white. I would arrive on my yoga mat one of two ways. Some days, I was completely there. As soon as class began, the outside world seemed to soften around the edges. For an hour, deadlines, responsibilities, conversations, and unfinish... Read More

Beyond Technique: What I Believe Makes a Great Yoga Teacher

In just a few weeks, I'll welcome the very first cohort of Pathways to Peace, a 200-hour Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training. As I've been preparing for this new chapter, I've found myself reflecting less on what I want to teach and more on who I hope these future teachers become. It keeps brin... Read More