You are radiant …
We are at the end of our month of gratitude. Today, I am grateful for the light. Tonight, my family and I, as well as many of you, are celebrating the first night of Chanukah (or Hanukkah, whichever you prefer, as they are both correct), the Festival of Lights. The story of Chanukah represents the […]
Age is simply a state of mind …
How is your month of gratitude going? Today, I am grateful for another year. This week, I am completing another circle around the sun. Happy birthday to me!!! By definition, birthdays should be celebrated. That’s why it’s most often preceded by happy. As children, we grow up counting the days until the next birthday celebration, the […]
The last time…
How is your month of gratitude going? I must admit, sometimes it’s easy to count my blessings and, other times, it’s more difficult. One way I’ve been using to reveal my blessings is to imagine that this is the last time. I know it is a little morbid but there will be a last time […]
Note to self …
How are you doing with our November gratitude challenge? This week in my classes, we were grateful for our senses and specifically for our sense of smell which is the greatest inducer of memories. Today, and really every day, I am grateful for this physical body and its ability to move with ease (most of […]
November is our month of Gratitude!
The end of October, we say goodbye to Halloween, costumes, candy, skeletons, and pumpkins (unless you’re a pumpkin spice lover — you can keep that all through the Fall season), and we greet November, a new month, a new day. And, we meet the same challenge we face for every new month and day. How will you […]
You always have a choice …
We have this incredible power. But we so easily forget it. We get caught up in emotions. We react and blame the world for our experiences, our pain, our suffering. We forget we have the power to choose. Even when you feel pain, frustration, anger or sorrow, you can choose. You can decide to respond from a place of calm, serenity […]
A sea of possibilities …
The other day, I had brunch with my son and future daughter-in-law. I am continually amazed at what he orders and eats at our regular brunch dates. As a child, he was always the one who ate the same thing, afraid to try something new or different. For a full school year (September to June!), he ate […]
Yoga is an exploration …
Tomorrow is the national holiday of Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, depending on who you talk to or what you stand for. Although Columbus may not have discovered America, as we all seemed to have learned in elementary school (because the indigenous peoples or Native Americans were already here), Christopher Columbus is still known to […]
Breathe in, breathe out …
While it’s natural to feel anxious and fearful during times of change and uncertainty, the challenge we face is that fear can easily take over our lives. We’ve been experiencing this for the past 18 months. In times like this, the most powerful thing we can do is pause and get grounded. How do we […]
See the good …
I remember in one of my first yoga teacher trainings, my teacher said that the most important part of being a teacher was to see the good in your students first. Believe me when I tell you I have the greatest students in the world! But, let me tell you how hard seeing the good can be. […]