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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 conversations...

"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 feel unable...

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 just DO it?"...

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 committed...

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...

I celebrate my 40th birthday on March 14th and I'm slightly nervous about having a small group of people over, which inevitably feels anticlimactic for such a paramount birthday but I actually don't really care. At least we changed it from a sushi rolling party to a...

I want to thank you Covid-19, For showing me what I am dependent on. For reminding me that I have such an abundance of products, services and freedom available to me all the time and I take it for granted. For showing me how lost I was in my busy-ness and how that...

If you know me, or follow me on social media, you have probably heard me mention my new project, Vari-Move. I'm beyond excited (and nervous) to birth this new baby into the world. But I'm ready. Here's a quick backstory... I started Vari-Move for many reasons but a...

As a progressive yoga teacher I’ve decided that modern movement and neuroscience has some very important insights for my own practice and my students, in that when applied to traditional yoga, our practice can be MORE beneficial to our body’s health and resiliency. And there’s more…

My new love is a system (although I prefer to say "way of being") that is 5000 years old from India. It's called Ayurveda and it considers every single person to have a unique dosha, or mind/body makeup, that is unlike any other. Different people need different things...

We've been taught that to be successful that we need to work in spite of our bodies, not in tune with them. We push.  Push to be the best. Push past pain.  Push through exhaustion. Push through discomfort.  Like many others, this was me too.  But...

There's an especially ironic and built in danger for people who come into yoga from a background of dance, or athletic endeavors like gymnastics or acrobatics.  On the surface it seems as though yoga is asking us to do things that are way too easy. Do this shape,...

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of everything we are hungry for....it sounds like truth and feels like courage." --Brene Brown As silly as it may sound, writing this blog is actually very terrifying to me.  Years ago, when I was a newly certified yoga teacher I...