My new year’s wish for you
Dear ones, As I prepared for the holidays this year, I found myself wondering how it was possible another year had passed. For our family, the year included many joyous occasions and celebrations, but just as many moments of chaos and quibbles. The kids are coming...
Do you want a more joyful and soulful 2017? My retreat is now OPEN!
How would it feel to spend a weekend at a beautiful mountainside resort with a small group of soulful women discovering how to feel good and do good in 2017? At the Aligned and Alive Lifeyum Retreat, step away from the hectic pace of your life and get in touch with...
Flash Giveaway! Join me at a feel good, do good yoga weekend in VT
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be sea sick every day. —Leonard Cohen I followed this advice all summer, with delight. Lots of ferry rides and fresh air. Salt water and starry nights. Stained a deck and planted hydrangea. Invited ocean waves to lull...
Yoga, Robert Sturman and Being Seen
Here’s how I don’t want to feel: Clogged. Bloated. Stuck in habits. Trapped. Resentful. Despite my education and training in yoga, health, and human being-ness, I sometimes feel those things. I sink into the couch at night with the computer or phone near, if not on my...
Make Your Own Fun: A Weekend Reminder
I remember as a child complaining to my mother about being bored. Often the response was a directive to do a chore, read a book, or get outside. But on occasion she’d reply with more of a challenge. “Well, then. Why don’t you make your own...
Finding Your Presence: Why Amy Cuddy’s New Book is a Must-Read
Hello my friends. How amazing would it be to always feel at ease, self-assured and confident when you need it most: Before the speech, the job interview, or the unexpected pitch? Wouldn’t you love to exude authority and kindness instead of frustrated rage in the face...
Double the benefit for your brain, body, and heart
It’s true. Exercise is better for you when there’s intention behind it. Everything is better when you’re present, but it’s not easy to put that into practice. What’s easy is where our habitual patterns take us: to the left brain. Worry,...
The direct connection between happiness and giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” We’re happier and healthier when we think of others. Which is why I’m over the moon to be a new Africa Yoga Project...
The easy two-minute meditation you want to know (video)
Does your mind race at night, making it hard to fall asleep? Do you want to start a meditation practice, but it seems too hard to fit it in? Want to learn an almost instant calm-inducer? Here’s one of my favorites. It doesn’t require any experience with...feel good, do good
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