I have a habit of signing up for classes/workshops/lectures with words in their titles such as "healing", "transforming", "opening", etc. and forgetting what happens when one attempts to heal, transform, or open.  

 I attended a workshop very recently entitled "Letting Go" at my yoga studio… Read full post »

Yoga and I are in a serious, long-term, committed but open relationship.  This means that although we may go out and have a bit of fun (making sure to tell the other with whom we will be cavorting), we'll always come home to each other.  It works.  We've hashed it out.… Read full post »

"Now, if you are menstruating..."

 Whenever I hear those five words spoken by a yoga teacher, I know what is to come, and I HATE it.

 "... please avoid inverting." 

You will hear this said again and again and again by yoga teachers who really do know their shit.  It is… Read full post »

I had a hair client ask me the other day...

 "So, what does yoga do for you?"

He prefaced this with, "This might be a really stupid question."

Far from it.

 It's not a stupid question because I had to stop the little hamsters in my head for a moment, tell… Read full post »

I ran across this post today on Elephant Journal titled "Beware the Locust": 

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/07/the-locust/ 

An excerpt...

 Several years ago I had the honor of meeting a young man who had the art of seducing young women down to a science! I tak… Read full post »

...or, wide-legged forward fold.

I don't know why this asana has always felt so womanly to me.  It feels extremely stable, grounded, open, and firmly rooted.   So, take what you will from that.

My head has not come to the floor, mostly because of my current… Read full post »

Change your breath, change your thoughts.

Change your thoughts, change your life.  

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My first yoga teacher training class is now in the bag.  Twelves students gathered in a semi-circle and seated atop folded blankets (which for many turned into mats to lie upon... our backs aren't that strong yet), staring lovingly but apprehensively at each other.  Very typical first day s… Read full post »

For a while now, I have lovingly stolen a line from Patton Oswalt in describing my yoga practice:  It keeps the demons asleep.  Simply put, practicing yoga keeps me in balance.  

I said my little borrowed line one day to a new (to me) yoga teacher, and her response… Read full post »

Greetings, curious and/or bored folks!

 I have started this blog for the primary purpose of detailing my yoga teacher training program, which runs from July of 2010 through April of 2011. 

I have few expectations for the program as of this post (the day before I begin training) other than t… Read full post »