What is Joyful Movement? How do you find it?

What is Joyful Movement? How do you find it?

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog all about how so many of us are affected by negative body image and confusion around health and how diet, fitness and wellness culture perpetuate those harmful ideas. SO MANY PEOPLE reached out to me. I’ve had numerous...
Tough Talk for the Fitness/Wellness World

Tough Talk for the Fitness/Wellness World

“Our current model sets both food and movement up as negative. Eating ( a biological imperative) makes us feel guilty, and we turn movement (also a biological imperative) into punishment. Atonement for diet through exercise. It’s no wonder so many people...
Why Don’t We Meditate?

Why Don’t We Meditate?

I went to an outdoor socially distanced baby shower today and was talking to some wonderful, intelligent, motivated women about stress and meditation. An interesting question they were asking was this: “if I know meditation is so good for me, why don’t I...
Love is Listening

Love is Listening

I’ve been listening a LOT lately. To podcasts on racial justice, in person with others of all races, in online forums. For me, listening has always been about connection and understanding that which is foreign to me. I don’t have the answers, but I am...
Why Vari-Move is Different

Why Vari-Move is Different

I started Vari-Move, my online membership for movement variety and meditation, back in October 2019, six months before the whole world went online. And while the membership has understandably grown during this pandemic where everyone is stuck at home and itching to...
Springtime Spice Mixes I’m Loving (Ayurveda style)

Springtime Spice Mixes I’m Loving (Ayurveda style)

I have been in the kitchen a LOT lately. Maybe you have too with all the time we’ve had on our hands at home during the quarantine. Since starting to study Ayurveda a few years ago, I have kindled a deep love for cooking that I never thought I’d have. I...