Hidden in Plain Sight
As a householder/practitioner the goal is not to try to escape life, or to discipline life in anyway. The goal instead is to meet Life on Life's terms
On Abundance
To recognize abundance is to know it as a flow, an experience, and energetic signature - not a number on a bank account. Anyone can experience the flow of abundance at any moment.
Ashaya Yoga®: Awaken your Heart
An awakened heart is one that lives and breathes. To awaken your heart means that you can connect with a stream of wisdom that resides inside of you.
It's Always Time to Celebrate
Celebration can be extremely elaborate or exceedingly simple. The important thing is that it takes you out of the mundane into a more expansive mental and emotional space.
In Praise of Simple
To be in Nothing Extra mode means no elaborate meals with long cooking times, no over thinking, no obsessing over trivial details, no cute, clever yoga sequences. Nothing Extra means get to the point, get the job done and get it done with clarity and precision.
Listen to Your Heart
In the Bhagavad Gita, we’re taught that of all the paths, the Heart is the highest. This teaching is a permission slip to do as Rumi says, "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
A Simple Path to Wholeness
Wholeness isn't separating out all of the parts of ourselves into tiny individual packages. Wholeness is weaving all the parts back together into meaningful relationship. Wholeness is who we are at the deepest level.
Finding Balance in the Dance of Life
Is it really possible that more ease and balance could come from just paying attention to how I am feeding my body, mind, and Heart? It seems too simple.
Start with Intention
Goal is about accomplishment, meeting expectations or achieving something. Intention has more to do with the HOW I will meet my goals, and WHO I will be during that process.
End of year Reflections
Upon reflection: Why was I given this year?
How do I want to begin the next one?
Reclaiming Rest
It takes a conscious choice to reclaim rest as a part of your life but it is so worth it. Rest refuels your mind, body, and heart and lets you come out of overdrive. When you're not in overdrive, your natural curiosity and creativity flow. In overdrive, those things are shut down by your mind's need to control or "get things done."
Engage the Chaos
Life is chaos! There is so much chaos and so much beauty in real life. There is so much chaos and beauty in being human. It is not your job to fix the chaos.
Cleaning up as Self Care
I've learned through yoga and coaching that when these callings come, it is best to follow them. And that if you do, they usually have something to teach you.
Perfectly Imperfect -- The Truth of Who We Are
The trouble comes when we think the imperfections are imperfect and disallowed.
Personal Training and Life Coaching... Pretty similar
A PT takes a generally healthy body and makes it even healthier. A Life Coach takes a generally mentally and emotionally healthy person and helps her move more and more towards optimal living
Bookends: Setting up the Day to go Your way
Interestingly, being out has not been as challenging for me as I thought it would be because of how I bookended my days. All summer long I have been incredibly consistent in two things...
{Guest Post} The Greatest Gift My Parents Gave Me by Naomi Gottlieb-Miller
Naomi shares what her parents taught her about self-care that helps her keep with it as a mama to two young children.
Ashaya Yoga®: Align your Body
As Ashaya Yoga® founder, Todd Norian, often says, “It’s not how far you go, but how you go far” that matters here.
{Nature Reflection} The Ants Go Marching
Sometimes the work is in the consistent tiny efforts -- that even those tiny little efforts build up into something more.
Ashaya Yoga®: It's not about the Poses - It's about the Heart
In Ashaya Yoga® we are consistently turning towards the Heart as a guide. Your Heart is a safe haven.