April 8, 2021 - Something I’ve always appreciated about the yoga philosophy is the idea that we have vast goodness, light, and positivity within us. We are born with it, and it doesn’t go away. We just have to remember that it is there, believe in it and share it.

I hope you will shine your br...

May 25, 2021 - Three-part breath is a great go to for finding presence and practicing deep breathing. The 3 parts are the belly, mid-chest, and throat. You keeping breath into each, and then connect them all together.

April 9, 2021 - The practice of yoga isn’t just doing postures…it’s doing any practice or practices that create a connection for you to an experience of the feeling that there is more. That might be looking at the stars…which were amazing last night. Or reading a great poem. But, if you are go...

April 2, 2021 - Since Sunday is Easter, I am reminded of my childhood and how we celebrated. I have 5 brothers, and we would get up in the morning and stand in line (in order of birth) at the bottom of the stairs that went up to our living room. We could hear my Dad upstairs hiding the “eggs”, w...

June 30, 2021 - Tyler Downs, a 17-year old, won the 3-meter springboard completion at the US Olympic Trials to qualify for the Olympics. He wasn’t expected to win, and the Olympics will be only his 2nd international competition. In fact, he beat out his 32-year old idol and two-time Olymipan, D...

Jan. 21, 2021 - Yesterday was Joe Biden's Inauguration...yay! There's a lot I'm happy about in this transition, but for me, right near or at the top is a return to the celebration and cultivation of creativity. I've missed having a reminder from the highest office that America is incredibly div...

Mar. 8, 2021 - It's amazing to me how easy I can be to loose my grounding and sense of place. I would think I'd be batter at it, but, it's a work in progress. What's great is to have yoga to keep brining me back to myself, and reminding me of ME.

Doing a practice focused on the feet and legs i...

Feb. 2, 2021 - Yesterday I started teaching my yoga classes at UVM for the new semester. Because of some positive COVID cases in the building I’m teaching in, they decided to delay in-person classes, so my classes yesterday were all on Zoom. In the first class I taught at 8am, I loved seeing all...

March 2, 2021 - I am feeling a lot of hope. There are more COVID vaccines available. Every day is literally getting brighter. I decided I should look into what the word “hope” actually is. Here is something I found on Wikipedia:

“Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expect...

Mar. 9, 2021 - I teach yoga and meditation classes at UVM, and at the end of class I have people come up to me to tell me their names. With masks, I have an impossible time recognizing people, and having them tell me their names has the added bonus of having a short conversation. Yesterday, th...

2.25.2021 - Yesterday I went swimming at Perkins Pier. There was too much ice floating near the beach to get in there so I had to go down the shore a bit and worked my way in over some big rocks. I could see the bottom under the water so I stepped in. Then when I took my next step there was n...

Feb. 5, 2021 - I’m thinking about winter, of course. For my time in Vermont, which is nearly half my life, I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with the experience of Vermont’s dark, cold winters. The big winner has been leaving…but I’m sticking around this year because of COVID.

I have ...

Jan 8, 2021 - How lucky all of us are, in these truly unsettled times, to have a community where we can find connection. For me that connection is found being part of the community in teaching these classes and seeing students each day. We need each other more than ever to remind one another or...

Jan. 26, 2021 - There is lots of talk online and with friends these days about how people end up believing that white supremacy is a good idea, or storming the capital is patriotic, or believing any of the numerous wild conspiracy theories out there. Something that I like that I saw posted online...

Jan 12, 2021 - These days have been a little bit rough for me. I feel like what I should be doing is constantly refreshing the New York Times, CNN, Facebook, to know what's going on. But, I just find it leads to more despair instead of more happiness....you know the feeling?

So, whenever I'm f...

Feb. 4, 2021 - When I first started doing yoga I really thought that if you are doing true yoga, you couldn’t get hurt…you know, because it’s yoga. Then, I started having friends of mine tell me they did things that hurt them in yoga, and my students would say we did something in class that hurt...

Jan 20, 2021 - Yesterday I was walking my dog, Dewey, around Burlington. I came across a woman how looked like she was having a hard time with the parking meter, so I said, "You doing ok?" She was so grateful. She just wanted to be sure she had done it right and there was time on the meter. I ...

Mar. 17, 2021 - Today I'm thinking about the fact the we are entering the 2nd year of living in COVID...so let's make the 2nd year better than the first. Since the future is now more clear, it's fun to think about how we want to be, particularly with our mental, physical, and emotional health. ...

Jan 11, 2021 - When I am feeling really bright and positive, it's amazing how if I take a walk around town I think, "Wow, people are so happy today." And, of course, the opposite is true. Since we are filtering the world through our own eyes, cultivating positivity and Light on the inside makes...

2.17.2021 - In the New York Times I read an article about breathing. The English National Opera has started a program to help people who are suffering from the after effects of COVID-19 to regain the ability to breath deeply again. They teach basic singing methods, but more importantly they prac...

Jan 13, 2021 - Where is the ground? Where am I? What's happening? Sure, we are living in a period of total disruption and uncertainty. Isn't having a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic enough? Do we also have to have the the worst President ever of our republic at the same time? It doesn't seem fai...

Mar. 18, 2021 - We are all going through life seeing things the way we do because of our own experiences. It's a good practice to be open to the fact that other people have had other experiences...so, maybe they see things differently. :-)

Feb. 3, 2021 - Whenever I have heard teachers talking about their teaching, almost always they thank their students. I totally get that. For me, I enjoy the philosophy of yoga, the movement of yoga, how it makes me feel. But, without students, I know that I wouldn’t spend as much time explorin...

Mar. 19, 2021 - OK…here’s something for you to do as you read this — come up with one thing you would like to change in your life. One little thing. Something that would be fun and easy. And then commit to sticking to that change for one year. This isn’t some big Earth shattering change, but ...