Cultivating a calm mind isn’t something that you ‘do.’ It’s a process that happens over time with consistent practice. Practice isn’t isolated to something that you schedule into your day or week. It’s not isolated to a mat or cushion. In fact, cultivating a calm mind...
No, I am not writing about a ‘new’ way to practice yoga poses. I just saw some beautiful photos of hot air balloons and my mind thought about energy and emotions. It was a helpful shift for me to think about emotions as Energy in Motion. (A concept I learned from my...
Feeling stuck is a hard place to be. For most, feeling stuck often comes along with ambivalence which means there’s a part of you that wants to change and a part that doesn’t for some reason. A part of you wants to make changes to feel better but is fearful of doing...
I’ve worked with a lot of human beings in a lot of different ways over the past two decades. From kiddos to teenagers. From young adults to adults nearing the end of life. In an office, out in the middle of the wilderness. Sometimes one-on-one, other times in groups....
Sitting down to write a blog post this week has been challenging and I kept getting stuck. I’ve started, stopped, edited and finally thrown out what I was working on because it wasn’t resonating with me. I’d just as soon get up and walk away. But I have made a...
Before I consistently practiced Yoga and it became my lifestyle practice, I had an active, distracted, and dysregulated mind. It would take me on a rollercoaster ride many days a week. I tried to cling to the ups and escape the downs. Most people would not have...