Tag: healing
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Pack a Pause, Not a Punch
My latest podcast includes my yoga response to the Oscars, about the slap watched around the world. I share my editorial comment on Will Smith’s angry reaction to Chris Rock’s comment directed towards Jada Pinkett-Smith. This is a case create a consistent meditation practice, to root yourself in mindfulness and ahimsa, to arm yourself with […]
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Part Two: Struggling On My Yoga Mat With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Click here to listen to this story on my podcast Read this first: Part One: How Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Led Me To Yoga After Dr. Moira Fitzpatrick prescribed “Yoga” on her prescription pad, I trusted and obeyed her suggestion, and found myself silently struggling, muttering, and swearing in my first yoga class at Urban Yoga […]
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Part One: How Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Led Me To Yoga
Click here to listen to this story on my podcast. 20 years ago there’s no way in hell I would have considered a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) a blessing. I was struggling. Struggling to breathe. Struggling to work. Struggling to play. Struggling to socialize. Struggling to walk. Struggling to talk. Struggling to get […]
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How to Gain More Energy?
As I prepared the theme for today’s yoga classes the word “energy” kept popping into my mind. When I reflect on who is showing up to yoga, meditation, or reading posts like this you might be feeling: Exhausted Depressed Imbalanced Sleep-deprived Or simply curious about what I have to say 🙂 I arrived to two […]
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YOGA IS A WORK-IN AND A WORK-OUT
Yoga has made the most impact on my inner-life, in the way I experience life with ease, with less reactivity and more assuredness and connection to who I am. Â Yoga and meditation taught me to cultivate a habit of being intentional…intentional about the energy I choose to breathe into each moment, into my relationships, into […]
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I TEACH BECAUSE I CARE
Seven years ago I attended a yoga retreat where I set an intention to manifest my dream. After being led through a process of inquiry and, making a declaration in the present tense, I simply wrote “I am a yoga teacher.” Â Four days after my retreat I was invited to sub a yoga class, although […]