It all comes from your core If you are an active person, and if you are reading this, you probably are, you most likely want to stay active for as long as possible. Unfortunately, as you age, your body requires more maintenance to do all the things you are used to doing. The repetitive movements
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Societal messages vs being kind to yourself Have you ever thought about the relationship you have with food? Yes, food is required for survival, but eating can have so many positive and negative attributes, based on the fat-shaming culture we live in, and our thoughts about food. If you’ve ever used food to numb your
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#2 in this series. Ask your yoga questions and I will answer them! Plank pose/Phalakasana is one of my favorite yoga poses for so many reasons. For a relatively simple pose, there is a lot going on. You use your entire body simultaneously, and it’s an incredibly strengthening pose for the core, upper and lower
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Exploring Mountain pose within Tree pose, Airplane pose, and Half Moon pose **To get the most out of this post, please click all the links that I reference. There’s a lot of detail that I hope will support your yoga practice and your understanding of these poses in your body.** When I teach and practice
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Finding the balance between Strength (Sthira) and Ease (Sukha) Yoga is a practice that, in addition to calming stress and anxiety, is equal parts strengthening and stretching. Why does this matter? As you age, you lose both strength and mobility, and unless you work to keep them, we will lose them. Neither one is more
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Reflections on birthdays and being 53 Today is my birthday. I am an Aquarius. Although the January birthstone is the garnet, I have always had more of an affinity toward the amethyst of February. I feel like being an Aquarian gives me the leeway that I need to claim that stone as my own. Plus
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Plus 3 yoga poses to enhance your golf game Golf, like many rotational sports, is a one-sided sport. If you are right handed, you’ll always swing in the same direction. It’s the same with sports like tennis and softball. With softball you could be a switch hitter, but when fielding, you always throw with the
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Part 2 Last March I wrote a post called “How to Love your Body in 3 ‘Easy’ Steps” where I described my own journey with body shaming and self-loathing, and 3 steps that I found useful to come out of it. I wanted to revisit this idea as New Year’s Resolutions might be starting to falter. In
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And why yoga is the perfect tool Whether you are an athlete or active adult, aging takes its toll on the body. Morning stiffness creeps in, making it tougher to get out of bed and get going. Neck and back pain plagues you from sitting at a desk all day (or doom scrolling on your
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Building the habits of community and connection All lasting habits, no matter what they are, are built slowly over time. You can’t just go out and run a marathon, you need to train and slowly increase your distance. You start by running half a mile, then a mile, and so on. I have never run
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