In yoga, balance is much more than standing on one leg without wobbling — it’s a principle for living. I learned this truth in my own life, and later, I saw it come alive in one of my clients’ stories. Both experiences taught me that balance is not about the “right time” magically arriving — it’s something we build, moment by moment, choice by choice.
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One Root, Two Branches: Exploring the Complementary Wisdom of Restorative and Yin Yoga
In the quiet landscape of slow yoga, two practices offer us profound tools for healing, insight, and transformation: Restorative Yoga and Yin Yoga. While they both invite us to slow down, become still, and turn inward, their practices, intentions and effects on the body and mind are wonderfully distinct.
Often conflated as the same techniques, these two practices may come from the same unifying roots of yoga, but they each offer distinctly different ways of coming into practice. Rather than pitting one against the other, we can view them as two sides of the same coin—each offering a necessary and complementary experience that, together, nourish our whole being.
The Struggle is Real: Why being present is so hard and how to make it easier
Have you ever been driving home or watching TV in the evening when, out of nowhere, you snap back to reality and realize your mind has drifted somewhere else? It happens more often than we realize—our thoughts wandering off while life keeps moving. Without even noticing, we lose countless little moments in our lives—pulled intoContinue reading “The Struggle is Real: Why being present is so hard and how to make it easier”
The Present Thought
Being aware of our thoughts is a powerful tool for mastering our minds. When our thoughts go on without our conscious awareness they become the driving force of our actions, words and in turn our character.
The Beauty of a Body at Rest
In the traditions of an Asana practice, Savasana is the final posture, yes, always. Even if you’ve practiced for years and decades, the end of your asana practice is marked by laying on your back on the floor, and if getting down to the floor isn’t an option for you then there are variations available but the essence is the same.
What is that essence?
The Moment
Have you ever ended something before you knew what was to come next? Maybe you quit your job before you had another one or ended a relationship, or a project, with no idea if, or when, something else would come along. It can feel like standing on the edge of a cliff with a herdContinue reading “The Moment”