Sweet beloveds, I am so happy we are here together today. This episode is all about dropping deeper into your own practice. As I mentioned in episode 146 of Samadhi Rush, this is my season for practice (abhyasa, in yoga-talk), and here I talk about…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 150// Taking Your Yoga Practice To The Next Level
Hello beloveds, For Episode 146 of Samadhi Rush, I am sharing my thoughts about my summer practice. If you’ve been reading my blog or listening to the podcast through a few season-changes, you may already know this, but I am deeply influenced by seasonal shifts.…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 146// My Summer Practice
In ayurveda, yoga’s sister science of health, fall is the time of vata. Vata is characterized by cold, dryness, light and changeablity. I am particularly susceptible to autumn. Wind-swept, dry, scattered, bare-boned. My prakrti (nature, in ayurveda-speak) tends toward Vata, the way of the wind, anyway;…
Continue reading Contraction// Yoga for All Seasons
One of my dreams as a yoga teacher has always been to devote an entire class to teaching practices other than asana. (Asanas are the shapes we make with our bodies in yoga classes.) Asana is amazing and transformative, but it’s not the whole enchilada.…
Continue reading Whole Yoga// The Other 7 Limbs
Oh dearest stars, I have missed you. My family and I have landed safely in our nest in Portland after a month of travel through Southeast Asia. We are trying to be patient as our bodies reconnect with the appropriate time-zone (2am wake-ups are brutal!). We…
Continue reading There’s Beauty in the Breakdown// The Yoga of Travel
Beloveds, I’m unpacking from a magical trip to the Northwoods of Minnesota for Truly North Retreat and reflecting on this experience. For the last few (or five) years, I have included “lead a yoga retreat” on my list of intentions for the year, but somehow…
Continue reading Being There// What I Learned Leading My First Yoga Retreat
Hello Dear-Sweet Yogis, Today’s show is part 2 of my interview of Sarah Trelease. If you missed part 1 of this interview, listen in to Episode 112. In this part of the interview, Sarah and I go deep into the path of authenticity in teaching…
Continue reading Sunrose Yoga Podcast Episode 113// Part 2 of Sarah Trelease Interview
Beloveds, I write to you on the precipice of so much movement: a trip to Minnesota this week to lead a delicious retreat in the North Woods followed by a month-long adventure in Southeast Asia. Amid the movement is a center of stillness and receptivity…
Continue reading Heartbeats// Holding Space for Each Other
This morning, like most, I sat with the rising sun. We see her rise later now. 5am is so much darker, though so much warmer, now than it was a month ago. Even in silent stillness, the world is alive. The world moves. The universe…
Continue reading A Study in Sight// Letting Each Other Find What We Need
I just returned from a sweet weekend in community with some yogini sisters in Sisters, Oregon. My teacher, Kira Ryder, and her friend Kari Sims Anton, hosted a deeply meaningful retreat called Our Wild & Quiet Dharma. We hiked, we sat, we laughed, we cried,…
Continue reading The Magic of Retreat//