There is a belief that yoga teachers and yoga practitioners are, and should be, nice all of the time. Today I want to expose this belief as a myth. Don’t get me wrong — I am a big proponent of kindness and skillful interactions with each other — I think the world needs more of [...]

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Students,
Well. 2012 sure has delivered on its promise of enormous change! In the last month, an overwhelming cascade of events has impacted the Anusara yoga community. All of us are still processing these events in our own ways, and it’s probably not a stretch to say that we are surprised to [...]

Our spine is the core of our physical structure and is central to our health. It has four curved sections, twenty-four vertebrae, and two sets of fused bones — it’s well-designed to support our body and to absorb the shock from daily activities such as walking and running, as long as we keep it healthy [...]

I just completed a wonderful 5-day Anatomy & Therapy Training with Martin Kirk in Carefree, Arizona. By JUST, I mean I literally just completed it, as I am actually writing this blog post from the airport as I wait for my return flight home.
“‘To heal’ and ‘to become whole’,” Martin began on the third [...]

In honor of International Women’s Day. . .

11 women who have inspired me, not in rank order, and certainly not an exhaustive list. . .

Tomorrow, my husband turns forty, an age deemed pivotal by our culture and one that is often approached with dread and dry humor about life being over. I saw more than one 40th birthday card in the store the other day with images of gravestones with the letters “R.I.P.” on them. It is an [...]

Sitting here on the cusp of 2011, I have been contemplating what the shift in a calendar year means and the traditions that surround it. I believe (and regularly partake) in the practice of setting intentions, yet I have long felt a subtle resistance to the idea of New Year’s Resolutions, though until recently I [...]

For me, I know if I am ready to step up to an edge if I can sense grace just beyond it. I feel nervousness in my body, but I can also feel the currents of grace flowing through me. Why would we step up to edges that gives us butterflies in our stomachs and make our voices shake? My answer is because I want the freedom, the expansion, the grace that is just beyond the edge. And I believe that we all know, deep inside in our place of deepest knowing, that the only way to get there is by going through our edges.

In celebration of the beginning of a new year, I am exploring the three yogic principles of Iccha (“will” or “desire”), Jnana (“knowledge”), and Kriya (“action”). John Friend, founder of Anusara yoga, teaches that these three principles correspond to the three A’s of Anusara: Attitude, Alignment, and Action. To help us to apply these three [...]

When I was a high school English teacher, I was endlessly interested in helping students develop voice in their writing. To cultivate and express voice in writing, the “sound” of your words on the page, you must first have a sense of yourself. Voice comes, in large part, from understanding your own truth and nuances.
In [...]