Queen of the Night and Finding Beauty in Harshness
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” Vincent Van Gogh I confess, I am a whiner. When it comes to living in Tucson, I’m the first to boast about our weather in March when the rest of the country is experiencing cold and snow and they are...
Yoga Keeps Me Injury Free So I Can Keeping Hiking!
Colorado Trail Hiker Meet Diane Sebastian, this month’s student. I met Diane a few years back in Colorado Springs through Steve and I’s connection to triathlon and her SO, Joe. We had an immediate connection through our mutually sarcastic and witty...
“Yoga is my Glass of Wine”
everyBODY has a story Each of us has a story. I have always been fascinated with people’s stories – I find them inspiring and moving. And heartbreaking and frustrating. They give me courage and motivation. I think people’s stories are what connects us to others. And...
“Yoga Made Me Mentally Limber”
Yoga Student Story: EVERYbody has a Story My last student story was about Janelle, one of my students in my chair yoga classes, who at 95 does yoga weekly. This month, I am sharing Christy’s story. When I offered Christy a private yoga session at my house last...
“You’re Not Too Old to do Yoga!”
Last month I let you know that I would be sharing a student story every month and I shared Kathy Harris’ story. I believe each of us has a story and as I’ve been teaching yoga, I’m learning anyone who does yoga has a yoga story. I have always been fascinated with...
// F O C U S //
I’ve had the luxury of having a great deal of flexibility in my schedule this past year, but with a busy fall coming up, I will need to get more focused to ensure I am spending my time on my highest priorities. I am a dabbler, which means I dabble in a lot of...
A Crooked Path
““Pursue some path however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” ~ Henry David Thoreau It’s been one year since I left HP. My path since then has indeed been crooked, but rather than narrow, mine has been wide. And wandering....
The Food, Oh the Food!
I’m not a vegetarian or vegan nor do I have plans to be one, though we have some history with vegetarianism. We read a book in the early 90’s, Diet for a New America, and it had a diet altering impact on us and we stopped eating meat for a couple of years...
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers for Yoga Teacher Training
While exploring Yoga Teacher Training options and looking at the Sanctuary at Two Rivers website, I tried repeatedly to map it on Google. I was unsuccessful and that is probably when I knew that this was the place I wanted to be. From the Sanctuary’s...
Disconnecting
“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.” Michael Creighton And so it is with me. Life gets busy, running here to there, doing this, doing that, piling more on my plate, saying yes to more and more until...