For at least 15 years, I’ve been able to predict one comment every single time I post a photo of myself, or one of my students, in a deep backbend.

“OUCH.”

Sometimes they really commit to it. OUCCCHHHHH.😂

It still makes me laugh because the person actually IN the backbend is usually thinking anyt...

Why Arm Balances Are the Unexpected Superpower for Women 40+

Somewhere along the way, we were told that strength training after 40 should look like reps, weights, and machines that beep at you if you use them wrong. And listen... there’s nothing wrong with picking up dumbbells if that’s your thing....

You show up. You practice. You care.
So why does it feel like nothing’s changing?

If you’ve been practicing yoga for a few years—or a few decades—you may have hit a point where everything starts to feel... stuck. Like your flexibility isn’t improving. Your strength isn’t building. Your poses aren’t...

Handstands can feel like an endless puzzle—one day, everything clicks, and the next, you're toppling over like a domino.

But here’s the thing: Most handstand struggles boil down to a handful of common mistakes. Fix these, and you’ll see massive progress.

Let’s break them down and, more important...

When I arrived at my first yoga class ever in 2005 it was a whim of a 28-year old wishing to feel lighter for a dance audition I had the next day. 

But, I caught the yoga 'bug,' or addiction, pretty quickly and developed insane flexibility. 

My back bend was crazy deep and my pride and joy. 

Fast...

"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 asked by tw...

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 and vibrant.

Let’s div...

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 was. 

There came a point wh...

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 late 40s, I ...

You might have noticed I've been thinking a lot about King Pigeon Pose and Dancer Pose with the Master Reverse Grip Immersion beginning next Saturday and it made me want to dive into some old yoga photos. 

So, above you can see one of my first attempts in King Pigeon Pose (Eka Pada Rajakopotanasana...

Arm balancing postures? They’re all the same thing. 

Once you fly in one, you usually can find flight in them all. 

Because even though the body is making different shapes in each one, the same 3 rules apply to this group of postures over and over again.

And, arm balancing poses teach you how to ...

This Shoulder Stand mistake happens to every single person in the beginnings of this posture and we are going to fix it today. 

The problem is when you get in this position, and you look at your legs, they look straight up and down to YOU. 

But, you actually look like this:

I know! It's so wei...