Top 5 Reasons People Haven’t Tried Yoga… Yet

As a yoga teacher I know I have a bit of a bias when I say that every one should try yoga. While celebrities have helped to make yoga fashionable, most people know at least one person who swears by it. From lean muscles to peace of mind, yoga offers people a way to be [...]

Teacher Training: From A Trainers Perspective

I first fell in love with yoga 14 years ago after I walked out of my first yoga class blissed-out and completely at peace. The next time I fell in love with yoga was during savasana in the first class I taught. After guiding the students to relax, I took my first deep breath of [...]

Empowering Yourself Through Yoga

“Yoga is existential, experimental, experiential. No belief required, no faith is needed- only the courage to experience, to experiment, to take the jump into the unknown. Patanjali does not say, “Believe and then you will experience.” He says, “Experience and then you will believe.” And he has made a structure how to proceed step by [...]

The Sound of My Own Voice

“Drop all “shoulds,” drop all guides. That’s the only guidance I can give to you. Just be totally alone, and listen to your own Inner voice. Trust life and nobody else. When are you going to take charge of your life? You are not children. You are not helpless. Take your life in your [...]

YogaWorks DVD Release

YogaWorks recently released their first instructional DVDs. I had the opportunity to participate as a student and cover model for the DVDs. The instructors are great and their is a sequence for everyone and every mood. The Body Slim DVD is great is a challenging series designed to help you burn calories and build your [...]

Turn Your Brilliance Inward

On this spiritual journey we can often be very hard on ourselves, expecting perfection. It’s an interesting balance to pursue spiritual growth AND be content with who we are right now.  It is usually our discontent that encourages us to change and improve our lives.  Yoga is full of these polarities strength/ flexibility; effort/ surrender, [...]

Dare to Leave the Shore

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin
“True empowerment is only gained by making choices that stretch you.” Gary Zukav
Empowerment means taking responsibility for our lives. If our lives seem small compared to the grand visions we have/had for ourselves, it is not for lack of opportunity or possibilities… we are [...]

Thinking, Thinking and More Thinking

In my classes I constantly ask you turn off the thinking mind and bring yourself into a deeper state of awareness, but I realized that I don’t really describe what I mean. So let me differentiate between thinking and awareness. The concept is easier to grasp than the actual practice of it, but this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try

Accessing Your Potential

There is a word/concept in sanskrit called: svabhava. And like most Sanskrit words it has several definitions. One of them defines it as our “true nature”.

Setting Intentions

Living with intention is a recent discovery for me. It started with a simple exercise, having Kori challenge me as to what my intention was for my yoga session. It seems like such a simple question but I found it extremely challenging.