Tag: yoga
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Who’s a good fit for my yoga retreats?
The women who come on yoga retreats with me are diverse in background, identity, interests, and life experience. What they share in common is a spirit of open mindedness to the new: new experiences, new foods, new cultures, new languages, new people. The kind of women who join my retreats are The women who join…
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Why my retreats are all-women
My retreats are all women because, as women, we deserve to have a space all our own. We deserve silence. We deserve rest, quiet, and restoration. We deserve to not have to explain ourselves. We deserve a break. We deserve to be surrounded by other women who love what we love. To find community, sisterhood,…
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How to get back into yoga after COVID
COVID’s 4th Anniversary… Four years. A lifetime. The gaping chasm between what was and what is. My brain scrambles to remember, recollect, collect, conform, organize, to make it all make sense, stuff it all into a box somewhere and make it all go away. Simultaneously. To not just move on but move on as if…
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Yoga retreats will change your life
Going on a yoga retreat will change your life. I say this from years of experience, having both attended and led yoga retreats around the world. Yoga retreats blend 1) the physical and mental benefits of yoga and 2) the presence of mind from meditation with 3) the spiritual freedom and exploration of travel. Retreat is…
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Mindful tips for job loss
So, you just lost your job. These are the key mindfulness practices you can use to process, grieve, and move forward from job loss.
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What the COVID pandemic taught me about living a healthy life.
Over the last three years, the whole narrative around health and wellness has changed as we have demanded healthier lifestyles. Let me share with you the key ways three years of a global pandemic shifted my whole perspective on what it means to be healthy and how to live a healthy life.
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How to pick and stick with your New Years’ resolutions
2023 is here! The month of January can be an exciting and energizing time. You’re motivated to kick off new habits, boost your activity and energy levels, and eat more veggies. But, if your 2023 goals are ambitious and numerous, January equally can be stressful and anxiety-inducing. Research tells us that New Years’ resolutions that…
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Yoga classes in Paris
Missives from a rainy, Parisian Sunday Yesterday I went to a yoga class in French at Paris’ Modo Yoga. I’ve practiced yoga in the United States for 15 years now, but I had never taken a yoga class in French. How better to improve my French than to jump in with both feet and learn…
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‘Yoga is hard’ and five other toxic myths about yoga.
I’ve been practicing yoga for 15 years and teaching for 4. These are the most common assumptions, misconceptions and myths my students walk into the studio believing. If you can overcome these assumptions, showing up for yourself on your mat becomes easy! Yoga is hard. This one is partially true. Yoga can be hard, both…
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5 tips for beginners to build a yoga practice
Have you always wanted to do yoga and be more flexible but just haven’t found the time for it? These five tips will help you build your practice holistically so that you not only make time for yoga but you also crave how good it makes you feel. Tip 1: Listen to your body Pain,…
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Retreating to Panama for yoga, surf, and sunshine
On a whim, after quarantining and recovering from COVID and a last-minute work trip cancellation, I booked flights to Panama to go on a yoga retreat with my yoga instructor, Anne. Every moment of the retreat was absolute heaven: yoga twice per day, surf lessons, delicious food, time spent in community with fellow yogi-travelers, and…