Be a good human. What a simple sentence. Seems so easy. But many of us fail; not all the time, not most of the time, but sometimes. The joy of this life is at every moment we get to choose how we show up for the world and ourselves. If we fall down, it doesn’t determine who we are for the rest of our lives, we have an opportunity to remake ourselves. To show up as our true selves. Yoga, as you may know if you’ve been reading my blogposts, is not a movement practice (even though the...

Yoga teachers are so predictable 😊 You can count on us to ask you to notice your breath, your thoughts, and practice gratitude. After you’ve practiced these for a while, you begin to realize that there is some efficacy behind what we say. Noticing your breath automatically shifts it and allows you to downregulate your nervous system. Your thoughts affect the hormones released into your system and affect your disease-state. Thoughts directly influence cellular health and function by...

I don’t know about you, but 2026 and the Year of the Fire Horse is taking me for a ride! I knew that it was going to be a doozy of a year, but I, obviously, didn’t know quite how intense it was going to be. I had a student come up to me before a Yoga for Stress Relief class and say that she hasn’t felt like herself. She just feels “off.” Her head feels weird, she doesn’t totally feel connected to her body, and she can’t figure it out. I pulled in the wisdom of Ayurveda to guide her in...