What is your relationship with work like? Our relationship with work is multifaceted and deeply personal. In a perfect world, we do work...

Believe it or not, stress is not always bad. Positive stress is called eustress. Eustress has different forms. Sometimes it is the thrill...

Metamorphosis is the process a caterpillar undergoes to transform into a butterfly. It includes four general phases of the butterfly’s...

Do you suffer from low self-esteem? Yeah… so do I. I’ve had low self-esteem my whole life. As a child I was teased and tormented about my...

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”-Leonard Cohen This morning my meditation practice was graced by an...

What does it mean to live in a COVID aware world? The virus and its variants still threaten the lives of people all over the world. The...

Many helpers make up our body's immune system. Most of us are familiar with our white blood cells. They flow through our bloodstream to...

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. -Henry Ford Have you ever had a habit that you couldn’t...

Inflammation describes our body’s way of responding to injury or infection. Sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? Indeed, inflammation is...

Please note... I am not a medical or psychological professional. The following posts are not meant to substitute for medical or...

Please note... I am not a medical or psychological professional. The following posts are not meant to substitute for medical or...

“Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.” Sanober Khan A Thousand Flamingos What are emotions? It is hard...

Essential oils are everywhere these days. They’re being used to alleviate illness, clean our homes, and even enhance the nutritional...

To be human is to be creative. In fact, creativity is integral to our health and wellbeing. Sadly, many people don’t think of themselves...

Svadhyaya, which means “self-study” in Sanskrit, is one of yoga’s niyamas (personal observances). We study the self through meditation,...

Do you ever feel like your mind has a mind of its own? The human brain is an incredible organ. We are just beginning to understand how...

Humans spend approximately one-third of the lives sleeping. Although the specifics regarding why we sleep are unclear, scientists tend to...

Bringing Spirituality to work. Many yoga teachers feel uncomfortable when they hear the words “spiritual business.” We focus on the...

One mistake many yoga teachers make is thinking that they need to come up with something inspiring or interesting to teach about. The...

The problem with staying at “the edge” … At one point or another, most yoga teachers have probably encouraged their yoga teachers to...