My daughter has always been very empathetic. From the time she was 2 years old and in pre-school, teachers would comment on how understanding and kind she was to other children. As she’s gotten older, her skills in this area have only grown. She has a huge heart and sometimes it gets the best of …
Perspective: Part 3 — A Beginner’s Mindset
I was googling images of “beginner yoga poses” and was dumbfounded by what came up in the search results. Posture after posture, even posters full of “beginners poses” that contained very complex and difficult movements. My personal favorite was “easy seat” or sukhasana. It appears simple, so I understand why it’s included. It is a …
Perspective, Part Two: I Wouldn’t Change A Thing
If you could go back in time and give your younger self advice, what would it be? And would you want that advice to be taken, potentially altering the course of your life? After my trip down memory lane the other day while cleaning out the yoga studio, I began to go even farther back. …
Perspective, Part 1: Just Keep Swimming
I was walking the dog recently and had an interesting experience. We were at the school playground, a place we have been walking regularly since we got him over a year and a half ago. He loves to sniff and investigate all the new smells each time we go. As per usual, his nose was …
Girls trip!
I’m going on a girl’s trip! I haven’t gone anywhere for almost exactly two years. No really, I checked the calendar. We went on a family vacation in Florida in September of 2019. That was the last time I traveled. My last girls trip was August 2018. It’s TIME! I will be away from my …
The Struggle is Real: School Drop-Off and Pick-Up
The word vinyasa in Sanskrit means, “to place in a special way.” In a typical yoga class most people think of the vinyasa as the movements from plank to chaturanga to cobra to downward facing dog. And in fact, that is one example of a vinyasa. It’s a transition and a way to move from …
Wake Me Up When September Ends: Part 2 (a.k.a: Pivot!)
This first week of school sort of went down as I expected. Chaotically! My husband always goes to a handball tournament over Labor Day weekend. He usually leaves the Wednesday before and returns home late on the following Monday. Which also leaves me home alone as a “single parent” during the first week of school. …
Wake Me Up When September Ends: Part 1
I began writing this before the school year started. Before the mindfulness series ended. I wanted to have a post ready to share about transitions because I’ve been thinking about them a lot lately. And they are hard. And I wanted to share ways to help ease the transition into this particular school year. I …
Hard Lesson Learned
I rarely share such personal information about my family, especially about my kids. And I really try not to do it so close in time to when the event actually occurred. However, this was such a powerful moment and so relevant to the practice for the 8th Day of the series that I just have …
Everyone is Doing the Best They Can
I firmly believe that everyone, yes everyone, is doing the best they can. Really. They are doing the best they can with the information and resources they have available to them at that moment in time. Pause on that for a moment. Yes I even believe this about people whose words and actions offend me …