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Stepping Up

I began teaching yoga part-time soon after college. It was definitely a life-line for me: it was something I loved to do and it helped give me inspiration after long …

Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I feel like more and more we are seeing things about mental health in the news, and it is so important, both individually and …

Happy Spring Equinox!

Hoping this finds you weathering this transitional season peacefully. The temperatures have been leaping and falling and leaping and falling, which is a big part of why Ayurveda considers spring …

Rishikesh

I’m writing this to you from the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh. The balcony from my hotel overlooks this amazing river. My brother once said to me, “You know, …

Preparing for India

This Friday, I leave for Rishikesh, one of the heartlands of yoga in India, to participate in a sacred ritual. My friend’s mother passed away at the beginning of the …

Yoga and Freedom

Happy Day-After-Independence-Day. In yoga we often speak about freedom — creating a sense of freedom in the body by releasing tension and stiffness, or accessing freedom of the spirit by …

On Dharma

We just completed the second weekend of Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga Center of Columbia. These eleven women and two men will graduate in November having gained 200 hours worth …