Yoga, Like Coming Back to a Long Lost Friend
I remember when yoga really started picking up momentum in Calgary as a popular form of exercise and mental wellbeing back in the late 90′s/early 00′s (seriously, what an awkward decade to reference in...
View ArticleSlowing the World Down Through Yoga
Yoga has an almost magical ability to draw our attention inwards, away from the hum and buzz of outside life. It is this inward focus that stops the oftentimes incessant activity of our minds. In...
View Article21 Day Meditation Challenge
It’s been on my list of things to ‘do’ for quite some time now; Establish Daily Meditation Practice. It sounds simple and do-able, but my level of non-follow-through-ness would attest otherwise. New...
View ArticleYoga Teacher Training 5 Weeks and Counting!
The count-down is really on now, 5 weeks until blast off to Tulum Mexico for my participation in a 200 hour yoga alliance registered teacher training retreat, woohoo! I can’t tell you how many hours...
View ArticleSpine Neutrality & Stability Before Mobility
Four days into my very first yoga retreat experience and so far so good. The first couple of days we were treated to torrential downpours the likes of which is never seen for us landlocked prairie...
View ArticleRetreating
Wednesday, October 19th, day six of my first experience retreating. Prior to coming here I hadn’t really given much (any?) consideration to what precisely the notion of what a retreat meant, my focus...
View ArticleBathing and the Yogi
In the land of ‘who would have guessed’, an argument has been put forward to me by someone who wishes to remain anonymous, let’s call this person, Shmom, touting the superiority of baths over showers....
View ArticleAdopting 16 year old boy for the holidays
Over this Christmas holiday my family is adopting a young 16 year old boy who loves poetry and has been on his own since 13 due to abandonment. I feel so fortunate to have a warm, safe, love filled...
View ArticleExpertise & Success – Not a Stroke of Genius
I seem to keep finding my way lately to quotes and writings that explore the concept of being either an expert at something (your profession, a hobby, a passion), or achieving a sought after level of...
View ArticleYoga off the Mat and into the World
Okay, so in a perfect world we would be waking with the sun as the song birds chirp outside our triple pane 5 star energy rated bedroom windows. We toss back our hemp/soy sheets and slip our feet into...
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