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"It is your practice that brings the secrets to you..."

"It is your practice that brings the secrets to you..."

"It is your practice that brings the secrets to you. No teacher can give you the secrets." -Dr. Geeta S. Iyengar For many years, this quote lived at the bottom of all my newsletters. I still think of it often. I searched my inbox for it, and this

BOTH one step at a time AND cycles & spirals

BOTH one step at a time AND cycles & spirals

learning is both linear/progressive and cyclical/spiral When we learn over a long period of time, we progressively move from beginning poses & actions to more challenging poses & subtler actions. When we learn math, we learn adding + multiplication before functions + graphing before calculus. There is a certain amount

Beginning Yoga Course

Beginning Yoga Course

Begins February 25 & 28 Register Here One gift of Beginning Yoga Course is the sequencing of poses. Over the course of 12 weeks, we learn through both repetition and addition, exploring more poses and more actions as we go. In this class, we focus on foundational standing & seated

If you do one thing this year, let it be...

If you do one thing this year, let it be...

If you do one thing this year let it be feeling your feet on the ground standing or sitting or lying down each day, every hour, come on back to the base notice where you feel contact with the wood floor, with the linoleum, the rug grass Let your eyes

asana as time portal

asana as time portal

I found myself in this pose: Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana, on the chair, with bent legs, while in class with my teacher. As I coiled my thoracic spine over the edge of the chair, a memory resurfaced of my legs trembling and shaking. Of not being able to press my

Planting seeds in the darkness

Planting seeds in the darkness

Happy Solstice ✨ On this longest night of the year, I wish you a moment to pause. To check in with where you've been this year, honor what's here now, and imagine what's yet to come. When our world is moving fast, it can be

Begin (again.) 2026 schedule is here.

Begin (again.) 2026 schedule is here.

Register here Y'all, there's something about a new year, a new semester, a new beginning... So much potential awaits. Whether you've been practicing for a few months or many years, thanks for continuing to show up and keep going 💖 And if you've

waiting...

As Winter Solstice approaches, I've been slowing way down. Washing dishes in silence. More moving intentionally, moving slowly. Less rushing and bustling about. Relishing the moments where externally it appears that I'm waiting... in line at the grocery store... waiting... as children get ready to leave

supta virasana: a love story

supta virasana: a love story

"Every day." As my teacher walked past me in a room of 25+ students, hovering overhead for a mere moment, she looked in my eyes and this is all she said. Every Day. As I lay on a that bolster... adjusting and adjusting again... coming in and out

Root Chakra Yogasana

Root Chakra Yogasana

8 week Pelvic Floor Health Course Fridays 12-1:15pm October 17 - December 12 (no class 11/28) Register here Whether you've just been out here dancing with gravity for a few decades OR you're 3 months, 3 years, or 3 decades postpartum, the health of

Virasana Cycle: Day 32

Virasana Cycle: Day 32

here I am. Day 32. Still practicing the virasana cycle. Some days I open up with Supta Virasana. Some days I settle forward with lots of support (like the pic above). And some days I move through all the phases of the cycle: back, forward, and upright in the middle.

60 days of the Virasana Cycle

60 days of the Virasana Cycle

Today, I'm returning to Vīrāsana School. The cycle includes 3 poses: * Vīrāsana * Supta Vīrāsana * and Adho Mukha Vīrāsana In some ways, these poses are a mystery to me. They hold much unknown wisdom in my body. My feet, ankles, knees,

Learning to Stand (Again)

Learning to Stand (Again)

Today while in class, I felt like I was learning to stand again. Working with poses and actions I've done before. But something has changed. At one point, we we're standing on one leg, and several actions I've worked with for years started to

Learning and Exploring

Learning and Exploring

Class is a super fun place to learn. And practice is a magical place to explore. What's the difference between learning and exploring? Learning feels like knowledge set forth by an external guide. A teacher, a book, a podcast, a post, a video. Beautiful. Needed. Love it. Exploring

a quiet pause with the plants

a quiet pause with the plants

both air conditioners stopped spinning the wind settled for a moment and the only sound of warmed rain water running from the spigot filling the watering can no sway of the motherwort stalks no rustle of the raspberry leaves no waving of rhubarb a stillness in an abundance of green

Reflections on repeat 🔂

Reflections on repeat 🔂

The outer shell was that dark dark blue, the one we imagine the night sky to be. Made out of heavyweight cardboard and covered in stars. And when you held it up to a bright window or light and turned the short cylinder at the end, patterns would take shape

winter grass in the bright sunlight

begin again

an ending dissolves what is as a beginning takes its first breath in the middle of infinite ongoing cycles of death and birth (re)birth and death i feel my feet, the cold ground touches my sole soul sol and what's here? waiting for me... love begin again

hello

hello from the other side