Mindful Movement and Yoga

Today was the last day of meditation here before we continue on on our journey in the U.S. National park system and the surrounding landscape....

This morning's prayer and yoga practice was at swan lake nature sanctuary in Victoria, BC. One of the many wonderful things about revisiting a spiritual...

The expression of emotion and thought into form. If our thoughts make us do and act in one way, our movement can make us think...

In the yoga and mindful movement classes, you will explore practices that will energize and strengthen you, helping you to release deep-seated tension and cultivate...

For most people, the oldest and most constant connection outside of our mothers is sensation. As babies, when we feel the sensation of hunger, we...

A step by step Home practice for Centering Oneself in the Midst of Change The one constant in life is change. To balance and maintain...

Perhaps the simplest and most efficient way to initiate healing and maximize efficiency and balance is through becoming aware of your Breathing.   In this...

Most adults experience movement through mimicking a teacher of movement. They do the movement, very often a movement with an emphasis in one plane such...

True fitness of the heart, mind, and body or "wholistic fitness" relies on our ability to   1) Contract the muscles and whatever we need...

We often have the idea that there is something we can do better, including something simple as breathing. We go to a teacher to teach...

Loving kindness meditation or "Metta" is a traditional Buddhist prayer practice that wishes benevolence and good wishes toward oneself and another. It is not a...

Tonglen is a Tibetan practice of breathing in the suffering of others and breathing out love and compassion to them. (more…)

I love poetry. So you can imagine my excitement when my son's 1st grade teacher told me they were introducing poetry to the class. His...

Whether you are an empath, a healer, someone engaged in spiritual practice and prayer, or are all of these, there comes a point where our...

In buddhist philosophy, the primary emotions can be broken down into 3 categories: emotions that are pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. Just as in the mind,...

My young son crawled under me this morning as I moved in cat/cow pose. He tugged on my sleeve, "mama." I paused and we sat...

A hand posture that brings about calm, lowers blood pressure and increases "groundedness" or a feeling of solidness in the body. A great centering practice...

No matter the age, we all have a need for a good start to the day. Slowing down before we speed up, allows for the...

Posture seems simple when it is boiled down to adjustments of the head, shoulders, thoracic and lumbar spine. Many people are told to sit up...

This morning as I spread my yoga mat outside, Diamond and Sparkle, my hens, came over to say hello. They softly clucked, pecking the ground...

Dirga breath is a three part breath that utilizes all parts of the lungs. It clears out toxins in the body and brings in fresh...

From Buddha to Jesus, hand mudra's have been used for 1000's of years to express the sacred. Hand mudra's have also been used to generate a...

A research article was published last March on the positive effects of Kripalu yoga and meditation in the scientific journal "Frontiers of Human Neuroscience". Brain...

Yoga is not a physical form of exercise for me. It is a way of life, of "thinking", of being. There are physical postures, ways...

There is the expectation among people that somehow if you meditate or practice yoga that you feel less. You are supposed to be more calm...