Articulating asana breakdown

This post was written for aspiring yoga teachers. A recent conversation with a yoga student in teacher training inspired this blog post. She was sharing with me her experience teaching her first asana (posture) and mentioned the class were given the choice to follow a script or not. Our chat…

Let people be

I hear myself and others comment on peoples behaviour on a fairly consistent basis. We may complain about them or express how we feel and once we feel satisfied we either let it go for now or come back to it another day. Here’s the thing, most of the time…

Patience

About 9 years ago this summer, I was driving back from the Okanagan here in B.C. I had just returned a few months prior from India where I had been introduced to the work of Eckhart Tolle. I was near the end of my 5 hour drive and had been…

Which would you prefer?

I was speaking with a close friend recently who was sharing about some emotional and mental challanges she was experiencing with her sibling.  She said to me “I just want everything to be easy and to feel good all the time in our relationship, I don’t want the other shit…

“I’m so busy”

“Sorry…I’m so busy right now, she is so busy right now”. When people do not choose to make the time to return a phone call, email or text, this has become the new saying, I wonder if people think about it before the words come out, it seems automatic and…

Shifting Our Mood

  Today I want to share a little about shifting our mood and a very effective way to do it. Last night in my Yin yoga class I was teaching a set to stimulate the liver and gallbladder meridians.  All organs have emotional expressions and the emotional flavour of  liver/gallbladder…