End of the month reflection We’re already in the final week of the shortest month of the year. As we dive deeper into 2024, things are as busy, hectic, and exciting as ever. It’s a whirlwind of possibilities, opportunities, hope, and maybe just a touch of fear. But let’s not forget that at the core of our emotions are just two: love and fear.Fear might not be the most pleasant feeling, but it can actually be pretty useful. It can…
Here’s a super simple method to connect with and recharge your energy using affirmations (and what’s the difference between a mantra and an affirmation) These are some of my daily things I repeat to myself, while filling my water bottle, stirring my coffee, during my nightly routine, etc. But what sets mantras and affirmations apart? Mantras are repetitive sounds or phrases utilized during meditation or spiritual sessions. They are commonly used by Buddhists and Hindus to induce a sense of…
There’s this misconception around meditation…Many believe it’s about freeing yourself from your thoughts & feelings completely. Your mind being utterly still & blank.Good luck with that. What I have found through yoga trainings, meditation training, sound healing, vipasana studies, etc. to be more true is the ability to feel your feelings, to be present with them, to hold space to understand them – and to let them flow through you without holding an attachment. In yoga you will often hear…
Recently I’ve been reminded it can be a good practice to go back to the basics. As I continue to work with a personal trainer towards my fitness goals, I have struggled with issues I didn’t realize I had. I’ve mentioned that I’ll have some knee pain every now and then, or how my hips or lower-back may feel a bit stiff at times. The other day he had me pause, and asked me to stand up from being on…
I took a poll this week to see how many of my friends and followers take time for self care. Maybe it shouldn’t be so surprising in 2020, but the result was LOW Most of us don’t even take 20 minutes a day for self care! Now, before you say you don’t have time for it, let me share something with you. Self care is not just exercise. Self care can be a lot of things! Think… Cooking good food …
Try this for a moment- Think about how you talk to your closest friend. Your best friend, who you love. Do you talk to them in a fun, kind, supportive and loving fashion? You probably have their back, right? Now, think about how you talk to yourself. Can you say you speak to yourself in the same way? My guess is no. We usually don’t. It is so easy to get down on ourselves. To be overly critical. Now, I…
We often do not realize how far we have come until we look behind us. It is easy to feel like we have not moved at all, when in reality we have climbed mountains. If you look back at your life over the past year, I bet you would find a few big changes. If you look back over the last five, I bet you would be surprised. The last ten? Even more so. We get so caught up in…
I was 17 when I did my first yoga class, and it was on a Wii Fit. I was 18 when I started going to Hot Yoga classes off the U.C. campus. Looking back now, I hardly recognize that girl on that mat. I was ego-fueled and A-Type competitive. I was an insomniac with depression, anxiety, ADD and OCD. I would go to the gym for hours on end during the day and stay up all night studying. I laughed…
I found out the hard way that form is important. You would have thought I would have known this at that point- I had already done my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training and been in sports for as long as I could remember. Yet, I messed up. When I was 22 I was living in upstate New York with my then partner. We were both avid fitness people, and challenged each other to see who could do the most burpees in…
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦.” What is home? Is it a place? A person?To me, it is your body. The only place you are always at. The only place you can always be. It goes everywhere with you, it takes care of you. Yet, we often do not treat it this way. We often think of our body and health second, or third, or even as a…