You don’t have to wait until you go on vacation to give yourself permission to do what you want to do. You could do it today, but chances are, you won’t.

Letting your focus get ahead of you is a sure way to slow or stop your creative process. And then you miss out on the joy of a rich creative life. T

If you’re feeling disconnected - like a bodiless head it can be hard to figure out what’s going on . Maybe what you’re experiencing is a disconnect between your mind and your body.

We tell ourselves that the reason we’re not practicing yoga, or engaging creatively is that we don’t have the time. But when the time is available - we still don’t do it. It’s pretty clear that time is not actually the issue.

If start talking negatively about yourself just because you didn’t get a yoga pose, somewhere along the way your mind hijacked your yoga practice.

LOVE asks more from me than Fear ever will. Love is not passive. There are a lot of times when really Loving requires action. In the past few weeks of listening and learning, Love has been showing me my next steps -

Return to your practices and your creativity if they've dropped away. Let them clear space so that you can be present for and integrate your learning and your life.

Don’t you just wish you could wave a magic wand and transform into a new person sometimes? Maybe that’s the real problem

Sometimes we walk around with a mile-long list of complaints against life. Other times it’s a global feeling of negativity. This question cuts through both.

Life is giving us all big waves to ride right now. If you’re having a hard time with it, ask yourself if you’re trying to control the ocean, or if you're letting yourself ride the waves.

If you’re stressing about not doing enough to save the world, or improve yourself you might think that the way you’re spending your time is what’s stressing you out. And you might think that if you change what you’re doing with your time, you’ll feel more peaceful. But, the secret is that peace comes when you are ok with what you’re doing - no matter what it is.

Practice keeps you open when you’d rather shut down. Self-Compassion keeps you from drowning under your expectations of yourself. Both together are a way through this challenge

No matter where you fall in the midst of the pandemic (and I’m praying for your health above all) you can either go to sleep or you can use this time to wake up. It’s that simple.

It’s not your fault you can’t turn your home into a school or office. Your biology is working against you. Instead, try working with the rhythms of nature. (Downloadable .pdf included!)

One thing I’ve learned in both coaching and yoga is that if you want to go up, you’ve got to go down first. If you want to RISE you have to ROOT.

When you’re a person who doesn’t want to be oriented towards hate and you live in that world, it can feel scary, exhausting, disheartening, and frustrating. It’s hard on sensitive souls who are trying to turn towards Love, peace, and non-violence to be confronted with a hate-filled environment. … But the only language the Heart speaks is Love

There is a knot that needs to go

My alarm goes off every morning at 6:10. By 6:16 I am in my home office with the door closed, wrapped in a shawl. I bow to the four directions, then bow to my ancestors and teachers, then to my descendants and students. Then I am on my meditation cushion with eyes closed for the next 20 minutes.

When I read my resolutions from 2010 I was shocked. That’s because 10 years later I could easily have made the EXACT SAME ONES. I have not mastered any of them. Shifting to a progress not perfection mindset really helps!

I invite Darkness to cover me like a warm blanket

to wrap my bones and allow me to rest