Yoga is for
Every Body
Last week was a busy one, with a radio interview,with Charlie and Eva at Corporate Talk A TV interview with Valerie Lego from ABC affiliate, WZZM's show "Healthy You" and a new blog post on the Junonia website, a clothing company that offers pus-size yoga clothes...
It's a big weekend in Yogaville this year--the centenary birthday celebration of our teacher, Sri Swami Satchidananda, and Guru Poornima celebration. Check out this great video by Sam Eberle to give you a taste of what Yogaville is all about. I can't be there this...
Guru Poornima is the special day during the full moon of July when devotees take time to honor their holiest of holys--their Guru. Gu is a Sanskrit term meaning darkness, and Ru is another Sanskrit term meaning remover. So the Guru is the one who "removes the...
When I first moved back to Yogaville for the winter, a friend of mine was making her own kombucha--a fermented tea beverage that is deliciously fizzy and offers the health benefits of being a probiotic. It helps the body fight off cancer, detoxifies and alkalizes the...
This is an exercize I learned from my movement mentor, Hope Mell. She was giving me an Alexander session (I highly recommend this modality if you have any body issues--and who doesn't?) and I complained about how my feet were often tired and achy. I hope you...
I can still hear my mother yelling across the house to us 4 children to get to bed--and out of her hair! She knew, in her "mother-person" wisdom, that a child short on sleep would also be short of temper. I know how she relished those quiet hours in the evening to...
Last month, I went to the Yoga show at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. It was FABulous! Every room was full of treasures from antiquity--ancient statues of gods and goddesses, meticulous drawings of infinite detail, depicting...
Last weekend, here at Yogaville, I attended a workshop to become a laughing yoga teacher. Ha ha ha ha aaaaa! It was a blast. Led by laughing yoga expert, Bharata Wingham, we 35 participants spent the entire weekend laughing and relaxing. Yukking it up and then...
ouch! Have you ever regretted a yoga class? It's not a nice feeling. Here's some tips to help you avoid the "icks". 1. You feel out of placeThis one's a no-brainer. If the yoga teacher looks at you funny, or says something mean, like "Come back after you've lost...
Recently, I met a woman at Yogaville, at the Satchidananda Ashram who wanted to know what Big Yoga meant. So I thought I'd take a minute to tell the world! Big Yoga, patterned after Integral Yoga, is first and foremost a classical, heart centered approach to the...
Salutations to the Highest Goddess, the First Energy of Creation After taking some time off from my blog, I am getting ready to come back to life! I have moved to Yogaville, an ashram located in central Virginia, where I...
After my post yesterday, I found this online and wanted to share it with y'all. It offers more ideas about controlling the mind, minimizing anxiety. http://tinybuddha.com/blog/3-ways-to-transform-anxiety-into-positive-energy/ I hope you enjoy reading. Om and Prem,...
There's a lot of talk these days about gun control . It makes me a little sick. I want to be on the record about this. I am a pacifist. I would rather lay down my life than shoot someone--that may seem a little facile, because I don't have...
I just checked out this blog:It's a fun and useful article about the value of just rolling around on the floor to reduces stress and tension. It's from a website called Yoga With nadine. She sounds cool-- I thought you'd like to read it!