Ideas & Insights

It’s Good For Your Brain, That’s Why

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...

Driving Through The Storm

Tonight nature gave an incredible lesson on the power of the witness mind, and of recognizing how our emotional and physical states are always changing....

On My Way To Teach

I'm on my way to teach yoga before Jonathan Foust's meditation class.   There is snow on the ground and a deep fog mist covers...

Them Dark February Days

Embrace your light. It's always there, even in the darkness.   If you are like millions of people living in a more northern clime, you...

Full moon January 23, 2016

January 23, 2016 I love that the moon is full today. That the air was still, and a foot of snow blanketed the trees, cars...

Wild Rice Mushroom Spinach soup

Snowzilla is coming to the east coast! Here in Washington, DC where we are historically underprepared (case in point: 1/2" snow and 5 miles became...

Community Yoga before Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust and Hugh Byrne’s meditation classes

Starting this Sunday January 17, Rita will be teaching yoga in 3 locations, Arlington, Virginia, Washington D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland. Each class will be before...

Ocean rise, ocean fall

 I could watch the Pacific ocean for hours…and when the sun sets, no matter the temperature, the wind and the elements, I deeply feel its...