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Save the Dates! Upcoming Yoga Events
Authenticity, free yoga, and puppies, oh my! Check out my Upcoming Events page to see all the awesome new events I’ve got coming your way. And while you’re here, be sure to enter your email in the box...
View ArticleRescheduled! Authentic Alignment: A Gentle Movement and Journaling Workshop
EDIT: The Authentic Alignment workshop at Sync Yoga and Wellbeing is being rescheduled! It is now Sunday, March 18, from 4-6 PM Join me for an evening of gentle movement and expression. Do your values...
View ArticleLet Your Red Flags Fly
“A gentleman at the bar would like to buy your next round,” the bartender tells me. She leans close and whispers, “The guy behind me in the black shirt.” I glance over… Click here for the whole essay,...
View ArticleI Was There
I was there In the room When you left The vessel remained But I knew You were gone My first home was in that body But without you it was nothing more Than an abandoned building I didn’t know...
View ArticleHoliday Detox
I don’t give a fuck how many holiday cookies you ate. Tell me about when you swallowed your pride and asked for help. I couldn’t care less about how many times you went to the gym. How often did you go...
View ArticleCarnivorous
I watch the sun and wait. As you approach my leaves unfurl. Shall I spin some slippery sentiments that you’ll slide down my throat upon, Or set a hair trigger trap to snap shut when you tickle my...
View ArticleThoughts – Stream of Consciousness
Rivers & streams & oceans of thoughts flow across the terrain of my mind wearing grooves deeper than the Grand Canyon Ruts, patterns and old ways of being get entrenched in the landscape of my...
View ArticleThe Gift of Presence
Life is often busy, and at this time of year even more demands are made for our time. It may seem like your yoga class or meditation practice is an easy place to cut back to save time. But as Gandhi...
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Offering
She snatches the tablecloth out from under my perfectly positioned place settings. Deep red wine runs in rivers down the table legs. “No use crying over spilled blood!” she cackles, lapping up the...
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Fall in Love with Yoga this Autumn
Change is in the air, and it’s not just the leaves. My fall schedule is still evolving, so stay tuned for updates. For now you can catch me at the following studios this autumn: Mondays and Tuesdays at...
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System Overload
If I make shitty Art, and no one sees it, do I really exist? According to the WebLogic Server site, “the overload protection features help prevent the negative consequences that can result from . . ....
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“Ode to Everything I Once Thought I Couldn’t or Wouldn’t Live Without, in No...
A microwave Self loathing An iPhone All my exes Debt A scale My mom Television Self harm Debilitating depression Meat Organized religion Netflix And yet I take another breath
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No Sugar in My Coffee, I’m Sweet Enough
Words drip from your lips, Poisoned honey, sticky and false. Dishing up what you think you’re supposed to feed me, Hoping I’ll swallow without question. I’d rather gulp down the scalding bitter...
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Work Your But Off
Recently I was talking to a student about building strength and was explaining how I found out I can do a pull up, which for most of my life wasn’t possible. “I went out to a spot at White Rock Lake...
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Heart on One Sleeve, Shit on the Other
The ninth commandment forbids falsifying it. Patanjali considers it a prerequisite to yoga. Witnesses in court swear to it. Yet despite the many exhortations for it, truth is hard to come by. In my own...
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How Do You Yoga?
“Why is this so hard? I’m hot. I can’t breathe. I didn’t know yoga could be this hard, I thought I was supposed to feel relaxed. How is that old guy keeping up? Oh dear lord not another chaturanga.”...
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Karm’ Again?
As of this week I’ve made 36 trips around the sun in this lifetime. Sometime last year a friend said that when you turn 36, you’ve been raising yourself as long as your parents did, so you can’t blame...
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Let’s Get Physic-al
I’ve often joked that not only do I not understand physics, I don’t even know what physics is. I attended an academically rigorous Catholic high school, and I was in the honors program. The honors...
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Heart Broken Record
Every word I said that pierced someone’s heart Plays on repeat in my head. Sometimes quietly, sometimes It fills the room and I can barely hear my own heart beating. Occasionally it skips and...
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Who’s Your BAE?
It’s been almost a year since I separated from my ex. I’m hesitant to dive into anything too soon, that’s my typical MO and I’m intent on creating a new pattern. A pace somewhere between sloth and...
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