People who meet me are sometimes surprised to find out that I’m a yoga teacher. I’ll be honest: the reason they are surprised is because I’m a larger person. Plus size. Zaftig. Whatever euphemism you want to use. That’s right, I’m a fat middle-aged person who teaches yoga. When I tell people I teach yoga, I generally get one of…
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” — Peace Pilgrim I was in a yoga class earlier this week and the teacher led us in a guided meditation. “Imagine a time you were at peace with yourself,” she began. “Remember how you felt then, what…
I was student teaching part of a yoga class today (I know! I’m super excited about that too!) and was leading my fellow yogis through some sun salutations. There were some beginners in the class, and I’m also just learning to be a teacher and how to explain poses, so I broke down the flow of poses into segments and…
“It is in the moments of silence, that we can be taken to our own world where our real essence longs to be part of.” ― Mimi Novic My grandpa was a little boy when World War ended, 100 years ago today. Even though he was only 8…
As part of my “I’m 50 Now Self Realization Tour” I expanded my existing yoga practice and made the decision to enroll in Yoga Teacher Training (YTT). Given my introvert tendencies, some people I know were surprised that I was taking YTT — teaching a class seems to be way outside of my normal comfort zone. But as I’m going…
Today in Yoga Teacher Training we were talking about our path to yoga and our decision to enroll in Teacher Training. Although I started doing yoga in the mid 1990s, the genesis of my yoga practice goes much farther back, to some time around 1980. When I was 12, I started having back pain, and the pain got worse and…
I started my Yoga Teacher Training today (which I’m very excited about and will write about later) and one of the teachers spoke about the implications of putting things out to the universe. She said that she’s learned that when she puts something out to the universe, she also has to be willing to accept what comes back. She noted that…
Well after 25 years of worrying it finally happened: I fell in yoga today. Don’t worry, I wasn’t hurt. We were going into an extremely low squat, where your butt is only a few inches above the ground, and the teacher suggested if it felt difficult we should put blocks under us to take some of the weight. As I…
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ” — Lao Tzu Today’s post is inspired, like so many, by a discussion we had in yoga class. The theme of the month is santosha, or…
It’s not a secret that most of us go around in a near-constant state of stress. Adulting isn’t what we dreamed it would be when we were kids and we’d cry, “I can’t wait til I grow up and I can do whatever I want.” Ah, the innocence of youth. Constant stress takes a terrible toll on the body. It’s…
