Here’s a post I wrote this fall, for Embody, the RASAMAYA Movement Center’s very cool blog. Click HERE to read about life on magical Star Island.
Entries Tagged as 'Yoga'
FIVE POINTED STAR: LIFE ON THE STAR ISLAND YOGA RETREAT
January 11th, 2012 2 Comments
Tags: Rasamaya · Star Island · Star Island Yoga Retreat · Yoga
WANDERLUST OR BUST (part 2)
August 3rd, 2011 No Comments
On day two of the Wanderlust Yoga & Music Festival, I started to make friends with the Beautiful People who’d so intimidated me at first. I even began to enjoy the eye candy, mostly young and female, that enticed at every turn. In my Advanced Kula Flow class, I tried to focus my gaze on my [...]
Tags: Vermont · Wanderlust · Yoga · yoga festival
WANDERLUST OR BUST (part 1)
August 3rd, 2011 1 Comment
I worked hard to get to Wanderlust. Three days of “Yoga, Music, and Nature” at Stratton Mountain, and I was determined to be join the party, no matter how much sleep and money I lost in the process. The chilled-out Acro-Yogi moms were bringing their kids with them, I knew, letting them run free by the [...]
Tags: Vermont · Wanderlust · Yoga · yoga festival
Go With the Flow
November 17th, 2010 No Comments
Oh yeah, life goes on. C. put a button up her nose and it got stuck. T. had to extract it with tweezers while I was teaching yoga (my favorite red eyebrow tweezers, in fact). A. had a pee accident in her bed yet again, after I’d forgotten to buy a waterproof mattress pad. Ducky [...]
Tags: Add new tag · mindfulness · Parenting · Shiva Rea · Thich Nat Han · Yoga
New York, New York
January 30th, 2010 No Comments
It feels like another lifetime. Last weekend I was in New York, walking around downtown with my yoga mat. I hung out in a cool coffeeshop in Tribeca called Pain Au Quotidien, drinking a bowl of Cafe Au Lait and reading the New York Times. I bartered for a knock-off hobo bag on Canal St [...]
Tags: DUMBO · Kula Yoga Project · New York · travel · urban life · Yoga
Mama In the City
January 18th, 2010 3 Comments
Here’s the big news of 2010: I’m going to New York! Without my children. Alone and FREE! Will everyone survive? I hope so. Am I ready? Hell yeah. Yes, this country mouse is headed to New York City, as us Vermonters call the Big Apple. If all goes well, I will take the train down [...]
Tags: ashtanga · Doug Swenson · Kula Yoga Project · New York · Yoga · yoga workshop
Inversions Yoga Workshop!
November 10th, 2009 1 Comment
Turn your world upside down in this powerful inversions workshop! Inversions calm the brain, boost metabolism, and relieve mild depression– helping us survive (and thrive) in the dark winter season. They also shift perspective and release stuck energy, freeing our natural creativity. Learn headstand, handstand, forearm stand and more in a safe, compassionate environment. Saturday, Dec [...]
Tags: forearm stand · handstand · headstand · inversions · Yoga · yoga workshop
Seasons of the Vermont Yoga Teacher
June 15th, 2009 No Comments
Why do people come to yoga class? Why is the studio filled with 15 eager students one week and only 3 the next? We yoga teachers tend to take class size personally, scrutinizing our teaching choices and wondering “What did I do wrong?” ”Did they not like the new music?” ”Maybe I should do less [...]
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Yoga Baby
April 10th, 2009 No Comments
Back then she was nearly 8 months old and I taught Mama-Baby Yoga in our home studio. The class was total chaos, babies crawling and toddling everywhere while their mothers tried to practice dynamic vinyasa yoga and stay with their breath in the present moment. Melt-downs, nursing breaks, brawls over toys… interspersed with rare moments of [...]
Tags: Yoga