“Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.” —Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect I think it is fairly easy to go to yoga every day. It might not be easy on the body, or the ego, but it is easy … Continue reading The Real Challenge of a Yoga Challenge
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Accountability Hacks
I want to start an Open Practice time in May at the studio. What I mean by "open practice" is that I will commit to being at the studio, Monday through Friday at 7 AM in May for an hour's practice. I am not going to teach yoga on those mornings. I am going to … Continue reading Accountability Hacks
Yoga Teacher: Energy Vampire
Went totally rogue in my 7 o'clock class tonight. Practiced with my students. (A big teacher No-No.) (But in my defense, there were only 3 students, all of them adept yogis, and all of them part of the Challenge.) My own practice time was eclipsed by my gym workout with the adorable Vince, and by … Continue reading Yoga Teacher: Energy Vampire
Witnessing Stillness
I always feel privileged to be a yoga teacher: to watch students, to watch over them, to encourage and guide them. Tonight there was a nice big crowd for Power Yoga. All of my best students, all the good breathers. I led a lot of suns and variations on suns. It was intense. And because … Continue reading Witnessing Stillness
Why I Teach Yoga
I teach yoga because I can. By this I mean I think that I am able to utilize my gifts of words, and my highly developed people reading and sensitivity skills in this way. I teach yoga because it marries my introverted nature and my extroverted nature. The practice itself is introverted but the delivery … Continue reading Why I Teach Yoga
15 Reasons To Do A 30 Day Yoga Challenge
Every April I do a 30 Yoga Challenge at my studio. I incentivize my students by offering them a month of yoga for $30. But I really don’t think it’s the reduced price that gets them. I think it’s more their own curiosity about whether they can actually DO it. Do they have the stamina … Continue reading 15 Reasons To Do A 30 Day Yoga Challenge
What I Don’t Love About Yoga
I don’t love all the emphasis on postures and doing postures perfectly. I don’t love the obsession with achieving the “aesthetic” goals of yoga: The high arching backbends, the Yoga-Journal-perfect expression of Side Crow. I realize there are also functional goals in yoga, like being able to balance, or getting stronger or more flexible, but … Continue reading What I Don’t Love About Yoga
Becoming Unglued
When people ask me what I do, I don’t always like to say I am a yoga teacher. I never know how “yoga teacher” is going to land for people, or what they picture yoga teachers look like, or what they do. Sometimes I try to describe what I do without saying the word “yoga.” … Continue reading Becoming Unglued
The Mindful Meatloaf
The other day I decided to make a meatloaf. I came across a recipe online and bought a pound of grass fed beef and a lot of expensive spices and exotic ingredients so I could try it. It was a pretty complicated recipe for a meatloaf. But I delayed making the meatloaf because my life … Continue reading The Mindful Meatloaf
Yoga Gives High Return on Investment
Tonight I asked my class what their incentive for coming was. (Because, people, it is freaking freezing out.) So I asked them: why do you come out in the cold, knowing you are going to be beaten, and broken, and boiled alive as the postures slowly ratchet up, and up, and up until you are … Continue reading Yoga Gives High Return on Investment
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