Love Lessons Learned in the Company of Women
A School For Womanly Arts and a Series of Mini-Lessons on Womanly Love Gathering with women is essentially a love fest. Not for all women, but it has always been READ MORE
Love Stories 2: Mindful Listening: An Antidote to Anxiety in an Increasingly Polarized World
This week was the first in many years when I had a sleepless night. I woke from sleep in a fit of anxiety and spent the remaining three hours until READ MORE
Love Stories 1: Hendrix
I met Hendrix on April 1. It was the beginning of spring, and ideas and experiences were stirring in me, waiting to be born anew in the true spirit of READ MORE
Destination Yoga Retreats as Practice for Living Mindfully in Community
Labor Day Weekend 2017 marked my first experience flying solo as a facilitator of a destination yoga retreat. I had the privilege of teaching yoga and mindfulness to some amazing READ MORE
Finding That Summer Time Flow: 12-Steps to Support Recovery from Busyness Addiction
When the Engine Breaks Down The other day I called my sister in tears. The emotions associated with the tears were hard to make sense of right away because absolutely READ MORE
Yoga Service: Personal Takeaways from the 2017 Conference
Every year in May, the Yoga Service Council brings together yoga practitioners and educators who work in the field service to the Yoga Service Conference at the Omega Institute in READ MORE
On Loss & Grace (of the Divine Feminine)
When I was a little girl, my big dreams were to be a “grown-up” and to live in a big mansion with all of my girlfriends, have fun and be READ MORE
Uprooting the Seed of Hate
An Important But Hard LessonWhen I was 7 years old, I had a 2nd grade Language Arts teacher at my neighborhood school in Milwaukee, WI named Mrs. Brown. She was mean. She READ MORE
On Community & Bringing Magic Back to the Yoga Mat
One unfortunate by-product of becoming a yoga teacher for me is that sometimes my practice feels like it is no longer my own. I am often preoccupied by thoughts of my students and what I READ MORE
Six Classroom Management Strategies to Live and Breathe By
A few years ago when I decided to take on a position as a full-time Yoga Specialist at a charter school, I was ecstatic about the groundbreaking experience that lay READ MORE