It doesn’t have to be so hard I hear it all the time: “I’m too stiff to do yoga.” Saying you are too stiff to practice yoga is like saying you are too dirty to take a shower. A shower is how you get clean, and yoga is how you become less stiff and more
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I love being barefoot. My feet and toes like to spread and feel the grass, or sand, or dirt, or yoga mat. Even my shoes have a wide toe box so that my piggies aren’t squished. I’ve spent a lot of my life barefoot, between modern dance, yoga, and swimming, plus being GenX and running
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With an appetizer of meditation point you in the right direction One of my favorite ways to handle “hard things” in life is through journaling after meditation. After 30 years of practicing yoga I am finally getting closer to handling hard things right off the bat, but it’s still a work in progress. As am
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If you are over 50, you have probably figured out that aging is not always kind to the human body. Muscle loss, or Sarcopenia, can happen at a rate of 3-8% every 10 years after the age of 30, and is even higher after age 60. What you do with your body affects whether this loss is
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The short answer is: definitely not. When is the best time to start yoga? As a child. When is the second best time? Today. I began my yoga practice when I was 23, and I wish I had started younger. Practicing yoga has helped me, both as a practitioner and an instructor, to become the
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It’s not just exercise As I sit here in my happy place in Vermont, on the screened in porch, listening to the trees, birds, and wind chimes outside, I am reminded that yoga is a mindset, not just physical exercise. While many people, including myself, practice yoga poses on a mat, breathing, flowing, and being
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When you get diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia it can be scary. Suddenly you feel like your skeleton is disintegrating from inside you. While you’ll need to modify your yoga practice, you don’t need to give it up completely. In fact, yoga can strengthen your muscles, therefore your bones, while also working on balance, which
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The joy of practicing yoga outside My family has a Summer house in Vermont, in the woods, near a lake. Such a peaceful place to practice yoga. I often practice on the screened in porch where I can enjoy the birdsong as my musical soundtrack while keeping the mosquitoes from eating me alive. Meditation on
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Living in the United States right now, with the most hateful president we’ve ever had (to my knowledge), is hard when you have an open heart. My yoga practice has opened me up in ways I never imagined when I started practicing in my early 20s. I never realized how shut down and closed off
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Non-judgment in Yogic philosophy is made up of several smaller concepts: Ahimsa/Non-harming, Svadhyaya/Self-inquiry, and Aparigraha/Non-Attachment. These principles together create Non-judgment which helps us feel our feelings rather than numbing them. Let’s back up. Recently life has felt very heavy. Between all that’s happening in the world and immediately in my life, I have found myself
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