Yesterday, before shutting down all of my devices for the night, I noticed a Facebook notification that someone had left a comment on a video of me practicing Flying Pigeon, one of our focus postures in this month’s playlist:

“So tell me the health benefits of that or is it just showy off yoga?”

T...

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...

This past week, while on a summer break from teaching, my life changed.

It sounds dramatic, but it's true.

There was no life-altering event or big shocking reveal. I simply slept. And when I say I slept, I mean I entered the Olympics of sleeping.

I would wake up at my usual time, take Tilly outsi...

Somewhere along the way, the word “core” got reduced to six-pack abs, endless crunches, and workouts that leave your neck hurting more than your body feeling stronger.

Meanwhile, many women in midlife are walking around frustrated because their bodies suddenly feel different. Their balance feels of...

The other day in class, one of my students came up out of Bridge and just paused for a second.

She looked at me and said, “That felt… different.”

Same pose. Same body. But everything about it had changed.

Her lift was higher, yes. But more than that, it looked organized. Supported. Like her body ...

There’s a point in midlife when you stop asking for permission.

You stop wondering what other people will think if you go to a yoga retreat, start working on inversions, or book that weekend completely for you.

It’s not rebellion. It’s recognition.

You finally realize that nobody else is going to...

Let’s set the record straight:
You do not become a stiff, creaky, immobile version of yourself the moment you turn 40.
That’s not science. That’s a story—and one I’ve seen too many women believe before they ever roll out their mat.

But here’s the truth...

Flexibility does shift as we age, but not ...

If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I had started yoga sooner,” let me stop you right there.

The best time to practice yoga isn’t in your 20s. It’s right now—in your midlife years, when you’ve become a woman of a "certain age."

I get it. You see those 20-somethings in yoga class—their bodies are new, ...