There are 2 books that I’ve been reading a lot of lately: Refuge Recovery by Noah Levine and What Do You Do With a Problem? by Kobi Yamada. One is a book that outlines a Buddhist approach to recovering from addiction, and the other is an illustrated...
What Do You Do With Anxiety?
My kids recently got a new book called What Do You Do With a Problem? by Kobi Yamada. It’s quickly become a household favorite. If you have kids in your life, I can’t recommend this one enough. If you don’t have kids in your life, I can’t recommend this one enough...
Retreats & Magic & Pushing Off
On December 31st, I drove 4 hours to the woods in St. Louis. I packed yoga clothes and my mat, my journal, essential oils, Between Breaths by Elizabeth Vargas, hat and gloves for late night stargazing. The retreat center...
Let's Talk About Change + A Recipe for Potato Soup
Dig Deep, Let Go
Between reading Michael Singer’s The Surrender Project and my own natural desire to go-go-go, complete with a regular forcing of round pegs into...
About Hurrying & Quitting
Not-So-Happy Hour
There is a relatively new trend within the yoga community of creating events that combine yoga with something-else-fun-and-enticing.
Stand-up paddle board yoga, climbing & yoga, Glow-in-the-Dark yoga and aerial yoga are all things I’ve come across recently. At a time when yoga is becoming even more accessible to the masses, some of these sound like great news....
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Scientists & Poets
On Letting Go
I Quit Sugar
Willing to Be Unpopular
Be Your Own Champion
Come Back To Yourself
Sometimes, It's Not What You Do That Defines You...
Sell the Goat
In Judith Lasater's book Living Your Yoga, she tells a story about a villager living in a small house with his wife, mother-in-law, six children, a cow, and some chickens. Things were a little snug and the villager was losing his mind with all of the chaos and noise. So he went to the village rabbi to