Although I feel like I’ve been teaching for a while, with having taught private classes and having taken so many trainings, I finally and officially taught my first “Intro to Ashtanga” class the other day to a room full of students. I was a little anxious leading up to it. Since Ashtanga is such a unique and specific sequence and is something I trained in years ago, I wanted to make sure I practiced it enough to get the sequence perfect in my head and in my body. In

Happy Spring! Mmm. I know – real happy. Today on my way to yoga class, ice pellets were hitting my face and covering my car! Oh well. I guess it’s a good lesson to be in the moment and not get too excited over warm weather just yet – because it all may change. That brings me to the topic at hand – letting go of what you think the outcome might be or of what may happen at any moment. From the teacher perspective, this lesson has presented it’s way differently

To each his own. I truly believe that. Letting the universe and the spirits that make it up take its course is just about all we can really do. At the ripe ol’ age of 31 I’m noticing a few things happening, all due in part to my continual reading of the dharma and yoga practice and training: 1) I am more aware that I (and we, and everybody) judge people. This can be as simple as thinking, “I really like that shirt,” (positive judging) or “He really should

Sometimes after a few vacation days off, you might feel ready to go back to work to mingle with colleagues, to get out of the house…I know the feeling. After being sick and in bed for over 13 hours a day from Christmas through New Year’s, I was pretty ready to get out of the house and start my daily routines. Then two more days of snow came. I would’ve been fine with getting into a warm car, then hanging out in a warm office, reconnect with folks, but because work was

I started a new twist on resolutions a couple years ago. I was feeling “stuck” and wanted to be more expressive and adventurous. My resolution that year was to “Express Myself Radically.” I wrote an album-worth of songs and attended a four-day long yoga/music festival in VT alone – to name a couple acts of expression. It was sort of a year to be selfish but I like to think of it as having been a self-restore kind of journey. The next year I was feeling a

I don’t blame you for not trying. I mean, really…. Sitting down in a comfortable spot to try and clear your mind from a stressful and noisy day just to gain a little peace and quiet – terrifying, I know. People need noise. Rather, people seem to need outside noise to distract them. To distract them from what, you ask? The noise in their own head. Why do you turn your TV on? For entertainment, sure. To relax? To numb out the rest of the world and do something