Plants have always been a good mirror in my life. When my plants are doing well, I tend to be taking care of myself. The converse being true, let’s just say many plants have perished at my hands. Recently, however, I’ve been pulling back on my relationships and doing a bit of “deep digging.” Regular yoga practice, prayer, ancient texts and meditation allowed tidbits of wisdom at first, and then full on life-changing revelations. I blossomed, so to speak. The first nibble

Christmas Guided Meditation (This meditation will be shared at the Hickory Foundation YMCA Teen Center in Hickory, NC Wednesday,...

Starting off with gratitude is a tradition I have held at the beginning of each yoga class. It starts us off focusing on the positive...

How many times has it happened that we go to pay for a small item, and find that we don't have that cash on hand we thought we did?...

According to https://www.wellandgood.com "A yoga bind pose involves taking one hand over one part of your body, and holding it with your...

Coming into April 2021, the month of Earth Day, a little more than a year after the world pandemic began, we may feel more than a little...

Those dreaded words when I was growing up...."Time to come in!" Especially when the days lingered longer, there was never a tiring of...

Spring and the Easter season bring about thoughts of renewal, rebirth, and revival for a lot of us. Scenes of butterflies, buttercups,...

Here in the Northern Hemisphere of this great big world, it's time when the cold melts away to warm breezes and frozen ground begins to...

This is an excerpt from "Autumnal Equinox: Ritual Through Yoga" (author Laura Hand, September 14, 2016 at gaia.com, see the full article...

Okay, grammar police, simmer down. I know "I got to" is not grammatically correct, but it's an easy way to remember this "mind flip." ...

Intention: The ultimate purpose of yoga is to quieten our minds and bodies to be able to hear our higher calling more clearly, and...

Intention: Awareness of interconnection in and outside ourselves One often stops taking for granted the amazing operating capacity of the...

Intention: Awareness of interconnectedness with our community. Picture one of your favorite foods in your mind. With the imagination of...

Intention: Connection with and gratitude for the elements of the Earth I remember one yoga practice when I was a beginning yogi (and...

Intention: Connection with unconditional love and gifts. We do not need to travel far to find a warm, energetic, and light-filled energy...

Intention: Connection with others and ourselves. We are over it. We can feel it in ourselves, and we can feel it in each other. A...

Intention: Keeping internal peace during trying times. Most of us at one time or another have ventured into a love/hate relationship to...

Intention: Homeostasis (Yama: Brahmacharya.) Homeostasis is defined as " "(https://www.yourdictionary.com/homeostasis.) With the...

Intention: Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender.) Surrounded. Surrounded by news of COVID-19, surrounded by fear, and surrounded within our own...