Tonight I went for a run. While I don’t consider myself a runner anymore I love to get out from time to time. I don’t plan ahead or have a set amount of time or miles to cover. It comes as answer to something my body wants. It was a beautiful evening. The sun shining…
This week in my yoga classes I am working with the theme of grounding. This is an important concept as we move into a season that holds many Vata qualities, especially if we are someone like myself, who according to Ayurveda is classified as primarily Vata. Vata holds the qualities of being airy and movement orientated,…
Life has definitely had its shares of up’s and down’s as of late. There have been so many new and exciting opportunies and breakthroughs that at times it has been hard to remain grounded. While I struggle at times to have a constant meditation practice I have spent the past month with intent and…
I am neither ego not reason, I am neither mind nor thought, I cannot be heard nor cast into words, nor by smell nor sight ever caught: In light and wind I am not found, nor yet in earth and sky – Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful am I. I have no…
Recently one of my favorite website , the elephant journal, posed an opening blogging question on duality: Do you recall a time when you allowed yourself to experience the “dark” side of an emotion in order to later experience the “light?” What dualities does your yoga practice bring to you? Does experiencing dualities on the…
Think back to when you were a child. School was out for the summer and nothing but endless hours of play stood before you. The constraints of time were absent and fear was a foreign concept. Thus you could be found atop the highest tree in the neighborhood or balancing on logs spanning across a…
Happy Monday! I hope that everyone had a good weekend. It went quickly for me and was a lot more hectic than planned, hence the title breathing through it all! I had my yoga teacher training this past weekend. It meets once a month and is usually two, ten-hour days of yoga study, history, practice,…
Yesterday afternoon I met up with one of my friends from the past, Alexis. Alexis and I met during our second year of undergrad at Ohio State when we both found ourselves in a Comparative Studies class where the topic for the entire quarter was the devil. We ended up as very close friends and…
