💚 FREE Love Yourself Challenge! 💚 I realized I wanted to recommit to self-love and wanted to offer what I have been practicing for myself! Please join me!! Sunday night you will receive your first email to start your daily practice on Monday June 7th using: Daily affirmations 10 minute meditations with me Journal prompts…
Join me this week on my Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast for a daily 5-minute Meditation for Beginners. Day 1 of 7 published today, today’s theme is OBSERVE. Click here to view all the episodes of my podcast. Click here for my podcast. Subscribe to my podcast. Leave me feedback with a rating and review to…
Such a pleasure to teach festival yoga this past weekend at the Juan de Fuca Foundation of the Arts Festival again. And, coming HOME to Port Angeles? Oh…so good for my soul. xoxoxo Namaste… – Yogamama Meels
Yes, I got funny looks at the Oakland Airport, and my daughter was embarrassed but, I did it anyway. And, damn it felt good. Thanks to my hubby for being my fearless and generous photographer. BTW – AFTER I took this photo, my daughter thought it was cool. 😉 Namaste… – Yogamama Meels
One of the easiest ways to bring more attention and time to your home practice is dedicating a space for yoga and meditation. Choose a space big enough for your yoga mat, a meditation cushion, maybe some props and an object to focus on during meditation. It can be a candle, a buddha, or a…
I’ve recently been teaching to more and more beginner yogis and I love when I ask them to smile during their struggle and their intense, scrunched up faces break into a laugh. There’s focus on breath (Prana), gaze (drishti) and the alignment in each pose (asana) but, I love to invite levity, light, and the…
It’s yoga practice, not yoga perfection. Before my car accident almost two years ago I was FINALLY making progress in wheel. It was always a challenge for me but, I was finally finding freedom and ease in this pose. THEN…just after a seemingly minor fender bender, I found myself struggling in my practice, especially in…
Inspired by the inversions workshop I took yesterday with Patrick Beach and Carling Nicole, I worked on handstands today. In this pic it’s obvious I need to work on my core but, my initial focus is just to get my hips over my shoulders, and using my hips to get up instead of my legs. …
Discovered that I still have fears of getting upside down, especially in a class or workshop setting. My body is strong and capable but, my ego seeks perfection and hates embarrassment and failure. I thought I was done with worrying about what others think but, then those P words show up…Perfection and Pride…when I want…