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Wrinkles, Wisdom, and Wheel Pose: Yoga Fear-Free Dec 07, 2024

"How do you continue to advance your yoga practice when you're worried you're going to hurt yourself in certain postures and will then have to stop practicing yoga to heal?" 

This question was a good one and coming from a source of wisdom and life-experience I have yet to obtain. It was...

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Yoga in the Midst of the Madness: Finding Your Flow During the Holidays Nov 30, 2024

The Christmas tree is up, the front door is completely decked out, Christmas music is pumping from my phone at all times, the cookie jar is full, and the holiday season has officially arrived! 

And, one thing I know for sure, is that your yoga practice? Between holiday parties and...

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5 Lessons I've Learned from Teaching Yoga for 13 Years Nov 22, 2024

I am a little nostalgic and teary as I sit down to write to you this week. This past Friday I celebrated thirteen years as a yoga teacher.

Thirteen years ago, I walked to the front of a yoga class filled with rows of people and led them through their practice.

I remember feeling so excited for...

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Stretch Your Sides: Lateral Poses to Boost Your Yoga Practice Nov 18, 2024

When we think about flexibility in yoga, we often focus on forward folds and backbends—but what about the sides of our body? That’s where the magic of lateral stretches comes in! These poses don’t just help you move more freely; they also make your practice feel more balanced...

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Why Backbends Make You Cry (and Why That’s Totally Okay) Nov 16, 2024

And, there it was. The new student that had come into the yoga studio, half listening to my instructions of what to expect for her first class, flippantly signing her waiver and pushing it into my face when completed, was crying.

Coming out of her first Camel Pose, the rigidity, and...

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10 things I quit to advance my yoga practice Nov 09, 2024

I had to quit so many things to get my yoga practice to where it is today. 

And, I’m not talking about nutrition, or giving up late nights out. 

No, the things we’re talking about today were much more difficult to quit because they had to do with my yoga practice as it...

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Hyper-extended knees are ruining your yoga practice Oct 18, 2024

Is that true? To say that hyper-extending your knees is ruining your yoga practice seems a bit extreme, don't you think? 

But, I would say it's true. 

This is coming from a person that had severe hyper extension of their knees in every single balancing yoga pose for over 10-years. ...

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Balancing Yoga Poses Falling Apart? Do this. Oct 15, 2024

My body tilted right... and then bolted to the left. I felt out of control and was pretty sure I was going to crash into the person practicing in seemingly perfect stillness right next to me. 

I was at the front of a mirrored room and there was no way that no one saw the mess that was my...

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Improve your balance with Pada Bandha Oct 11, 2024

As I looked out on the students in my class, my eyes went directly to their feet. All of their attention was on holding Warrior III, also known as Balancing Stick Pose. 

Some of their feet were engaged, holding onto the floor and ultimately contracting all of their leg muscles to support the...

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Get rid of the 'or' in your yoga practice Oct 04, 2024

It happened to me the other day. I was about move into my yoga room to work through my daily inversion practice and the thought popped into my head, "You could do your handstand work, or you could make a cup of coffee and chill with your book." 

I laughed to myself. It's been almost 20-years...

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Boosting Bone Health: How Yoga Can Strengthen Your Bones After 40 Sep 27, 2024

I am not the kind of woman that enjoys lifting weights at the gym. It's simply not my thing. 

But, lifting my body into the air using just my core and upper body strength in an arm balance pose or and inversion? That is where it's at. 

And, every day as I wake up diving deeper into my...

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These 3 steps can change everything Sep 13, 2024

My husband, Jeffrey, has now dropped a total of 65 lbs. since August 2023. And, every time he walks through the door from a long day teaching middle schoolers how to tune a ukelele and sing on pitch, my heart leaps at the sight of him. He looks like he's thirty-five again. 

I realize now...

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