When you have had enough opportunities to practice cultivating the witness that you can apply it to the things that happen in your life, the roller coaster of thoughts and emotions can be a pretty interesting ride. A ride that reveals a lot of truth and important lessons that you might need to receive. In the end, there is gratitude for the ride, even though parts of it can totally shake you up inside.

Do you have to do yoga in a bikini (or just board shorts for the guys) on a beach to get any type of social media following? NO. It's true. There...

Time finds us moving into February 2019 and I’m still unsure how it happened so quickly. I’ve heard many people say that January felt longer than 31...

Lily Gretz, one of our volunteer blog writers, interviewed Kim Murphy and Vladimir Tchakarov, two of our program directors for the Pranakriya 200...

It’s been helpful to re-frame my goal as not “to meditate” but to sit silently. If in that silent sitting, I happened to get into a meditative state of mind, then wonderful. If not, that’s OK too. I still notice benefits, a sense of clarity and calm that comes from sitting silently even if I never fully drop into “meditation.”

More doesn’t always mean more on our mats.

Last month, we explored how to more deeply connect with your yoga students on the mat and in the studio. This month, we’ll taking that connection...

Happy New Year! I hope this finds you and your loved ones easing into 2019. Winter Solstice passed less than two weeks ago. The day marked the...

Our students come to our classes and our private yoga sessions for any number of reasons: to reduce stress and anxiety, for a physical practice, to...

Singing in the shower. Dancing as I prepare for my day. Jamming in the car on my way to work or on a road trip. Hearing myself randomly singing a line from a song I heard earlier. All of these things that make me smile and bring a feeling of fun to my days recently made their reappearance in my life.

Sometimes finding time on your mat is all it takes.

Have you ever had an experience where you feel like you could cry just as easily as you could laugh? Or be angry at someone just as easily as you could give them a warm hug. I’ve been noticing more and more than in the case of highly charged feelings, that energy is rarely purely one thing. There are shades and subtleties and I can choose to dwell in one part or another of the feeling.