It had been a long Monday. The type of day where you feel like the energy has been siphoned out of your bone marrow. The best kind of Monday. When you teach yoga, you end up offering your heart, who you are, what you hope will be helpful to others on a platter of open vulnerability every day. You are constantly putting yourself out there to be judged, received, rejected, analyzed, hugged, given weird stink eye faces that may or may not be intentional. A lot ...
It’s The Little Things – Racing Raindrops
This past Wednesday I woke up after a wonderful sleep to receive unpleasant news. I rolled out of bed feeling pretty great, and made the error of reading my emails before having coffee. Life Hack: Don’t do that - have coffee first so you can deal with whatever comes your way. My stomach lurched after reading this particular bit of news. My body surged with anger and sadness. It was acutely unpleasant, and yet I I tried to see it for what it was - a situation outside of ...
It’s The Little Things – Falling Leaves
There is a wonderful side effect of yoga. It is surprisingly underrated and under-shared. It’s an increased capacity for a super power. Yup. Get ready to put your craving for Marvel movies aside. We possess powers. People tend to look for big things. Big moments. Big trips. Big relationships. Big feelings. Big bank accounts. You know what that serving of fries needs to be? BIGGER. But true power lies in the little. Little things. Tiny ...
What Re-reading My Old Blog Posts Taught Me
Revisiting and posting my old blogs these past weeks has made me undeniably nostalgic. I'll never forget the first month I moved to Toronto. It was a whirlwind adventure. I'd applied for a job with no expectations of getting the position. Low and behold, the next thing I know, I'm hunting for an apartment in the crazy urban jungle of downtown Toronto with a roommate I met one week prior. I was walking to my new job in the heart of the city at Queen and Spadina. Going to yoga everyday at a ...
You Are Enough
You are enough. I would be lying if I said I believed this about myself all the time. But I say it anyway. I say it with the hope of it one day being true. True in the sense that I fully believe my own words. Does this make me a hypocrite? No. It makes me real, honest, broken, constantly changing, mending and falling flat on my face on the regular. It's a phrase I am growing into. Painstakingly slowly. But it's ...
12 Things I am Grateful For This Year And Always
I lay in bed last night unsure of what to write about. I had been thinking a lot about the year coming to a close; its contents, triumphs, failings, and pivotal events. It was starting to feel like a bit much. My ego would start to puff up at the good memories and shrink at the bad ones. My desire to do better, go further and 'conquer' so to speak the next year started to creep in. Before I knew it, I was an anxious ball of worry concerned about 2 and 5 year plans, taking on the world and ...
5 Ways Yoga and Wine Are The Perfect Pairing
This past weekend afforded me the chance to bring two of my great loves together: Yoga and Wine. I've often joked with friends and students saying these two things have brought me the most peace. I watched this personal truth come to life for others this past Friday. To see these two, seemingly different worlds bring happiness to others confirmed my sometimes tipsy suspicions. To wit, my cup was overflowing with joy. I witnessed a yoga class of ...
