You know that feeling. First thing in the morning, or when you stand up from sitting, your body feels stiff and cranky. Especially your lower back. You may blame it on aging, but it’s actually what you’ve done with your body every day over the last few decades or more. How you’ve sat, how you’ve
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Why I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions and what I do instead Many people use the start of a new year to start with a clean slate. Last year is done, time to try harder, be better, suck less. There are many things wrong with this thinking, like being mean to yourself, but the energy
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Learning to treat yourself the way you treat others The call is coming from inside the house. It’s an inside job. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. There are so many sayings that describe how we are the cause of our own suffering. I am not the first to ask the question, “how can you
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Embracing the energy of Winter and letting it guide us to wisdom The Winter Solstice is the beginning of our darkest season: Winter. Where I live in Massachusetts, we often have snow, freezing temperatures, and lots of darkness. While the Winter Solstice is the darkest day of the year, it also signals the move toward
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I wish I had known this sooner I grew up thinking that I wasn’t allowed to have emotions. My feelings were too big for the adults in my life to handle. The story I told myself was that I was too much and had to make myself smaller and quieter to feel safe and acceptable.
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Osteoporosis is a diagnosis that puts fear into the hearts of many women, but it is actually a condition that can affect everyone, regardless of biological sex. Although men aren’t diagnosed nearly as frequently, dropping testosterone is also a risk factor for osteoporosis. There are many endocrine glands that affect bone health, including the thyroid
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A practice to get to know yourself and understand the beliefs that hold you back Journaling can take many shapes. It can be a log of day to day happenings, or it can be a deep dive into your thoughts and feelings. I find the latter to be more helpful in taking your yoga practice
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aka Double Pigeon or Firelog pose Hip openers are a category of yoga poses that are equally loved and hated by yoga students. I have found that the poses you hate the most are the ones your body needs the most (as long as you don’t hate them because they cause you injury). A pose
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When it comes to healthy eating, how you eat can be as important as what you eat. Sitting while you eat, eating slowly, and chewing your food sufficiently aids in digestion and can prevent abdominal discomfort, both during and after eating. It also encourages you to take a pause in your day, slow down, and
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I have been in a 30 year relationship with yoga. When I started at age 23, I was steeped in anxiety, perfectionism, and self-loathing. I was simultaneously too much and not enough, and struggled with depression on and off for many years. Yoga has been the one constant throughout my adult life that gave me
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