Feel strong in your heart, mind and body. Yoga for every body. Hatha yoga. Meditation. Mindfulness.
Majestic Teachers
November is the month of gratitude. We are celebrating our loving teachers and amazing community. You can just feel the love and joy of these teachers flowing out into the universe.
Yoga
Kundalini Yoga focuses on breath and asana along with chanting, meditation, and singing.
Grateful Friday
Gratitude feeds your soul.
Gratitude reminds us of what truly matters in life. Try to find moments for a little gratitude today and every day……..
Joy is found in the in-between moments
Joy is in and from the heart
Joy is who we are, our soul....…….
When we live in the space of gratefulness, we open our hearts to infinite possibilities.
It can be difficult to grateful when life is difficult, painful, and challenging, when life just feels heavy....…….
Meditation has the power to heal your heart and to help you bring more gratitude and joy into your life. When you meditate repeating a mantra, it helps keep your mind and body focused on the moment..…….
Who are the people you are grateful for? The people who are there when you stumble, helping you stand back up, and pushing you back in. The people who see the light in you, when you only see the darkness…….
On the darkest, saddest, most challenging of days......I look aroundat everything I have....
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”– Cicero (106–43bc)
All other virtues that we aspire towards - happiness, hope, justice, respect, beauty, safety...... are made paler, hollowed, and less inspired without gratitude.
Gratitude helps you find the silver lining in the little things. It helps you to put the past to rest, and to find joy in this very moment, right here, right now.
Meditation
Tis the season of magic, giving, wonder, joy, and love. But for many of us, the holidays can quickly become stressful and overwhelming. Becoming one of the busiest, most expensive and draining times of the year.
Loving yourself is the greatest revolution. We all could bring a little more self-love into your hearts.
Meditation is a powerful tool to help us connect to our hearts. Every moment that we spend in stillness the more our awareness increases.
How do you connect to the present moment during the craziness of your day with cell phones buzzing and beeping, emails pinging, children calling, Zoom meetings awaiting.
Self-Love
Recently I had the pleasure of sharing a piece I wrote for The Maps Institute about how love is the highest form of energy.
We all could bring a little more self-love into your hearts.
When we are able to truly love ourselves, we are able to genuinely love others more fully and to open ourselves to receiving love.
Wheel pose, Urdhva Dhanurasana, can be a powerful pose to open your heart and lift your spirits. When practiced on a chair like this it is challenging because it requires a lot of core and leg strength.
Recipes
As we say goodbye to summer, we bring her bounty with us into the fall and winter. Local organic pickled cucumbers and onions, varieties of sweet peppers prepared and canned fill my pantry with kitchen magic.
This soup is for spring. Spring is is for so many things: flowers budding, walks in the woods, breathing in deeply, and reestablishing connection, intimacy.
This soup will warm your tummy, heart, and soul on even the coldest of days. Yellow split peas contain all nine essential amino acids, which make them an ideal source of plant proteins. Try it with the broth from Lindsay’s Stone Soup or use your favorite low-sodium organic broth.
Sweet Red Pepper Relish
Bring summer’s bounty with you into the fall and winter. I like to use local organic onions, varieties of sweet peppers, filling your pantry with magic! Nurturing others is a wonderful way to nurture the Self.