6 SUP Yoga Tips for Beginners

Image via Flickr User Neal bepko Stand up Paddleboard yoga is one of my all time favorite summer activities. If you want to know why it'...

My Toddler is a Yogic Sage

Now that my girl is nearly two years old she's saying all kinds of things. Some of them are less than pleasant, like yesterday when she ...

5 Things I LOVE about Ashtanga Yoga

Practice and all is coming. - K. Pattabhi Jois, Founder Ashtanga Yoga  1. It's a home practitioner's dream. I don't know about y...

A Post-Thanksgiving Yoga Practice

Today, in yoga studios and gyms across the country students everywhere will hear the same message. It's time to work off that second hel...

It's Not Too Late to Try SUP Yoga!

It’s officially Fall! Football is blaring from every television. The kids are back in school. Coffee, beer, muffins, and even yogurt (does a...

I'm Gazing at My Inner Selfie: "Like" It or Not

The only thing I love more than a good yoga debate, is a good yoga debate about the use of social media. Of course I'm referencing this ...

10 Most Annoying Home Practice Distractions

1. My dog licks my face every time I go into Downward Dog. Or Handstand. Or Headstand. Or Plank. Or Up Dog. I should really put the dog out...

Perseverance Poses

All poses are perseverance poses, really. I've found that the practice itself is really about coming back every day to build on the wisd...

10 Ways Motherhood Has Changed My Yoga Practice

Not me. I no longer have a Buddha statue or candle at the front of my mat for an alter. Instead, I have a sleeping baby in a bo...

5 Poses That Should Induce Labor (But Don't) ...

Or at least haven't so far for me..  OK. To be fair.. most of these poses are designed to open the hips, which should prepare the body f...

Balancing Poses, Balancing Life

Before I was pregnant if you asked me what poses I'd be practicing daily at 31 weeks pregnant, I probably would have said "Supta Ba...

From the Ground Up: Tadasana

Image: Iyogalife.com My feet press strongly into the ground. Balls? Check! Heels? Check! Outside edges? Check! I try to feel my arches li...

Why Go to Yoga Class?

A few months ago, I went to a weekend workshop led by Jason Crandell , one of my long-time teachers. I had been feeling pretty bad about my ...

A Love Affair: Supta Padangusthasana

I'm afraid to tell you this because I might jinx it ... but here goes... I've been meditating again. Every day. In the mornings befo...

Princess Pose: A Royal Affair!

I am perhaps the girliest of girly girls. I like pink, tutus, and tiaras. I have been known to wear high heels to the grocery store. I doodl...

Dear Hamstrings ...

Image: http://www.padma-yoga.net/ Dear Hamstrings, Are you mad at me? I know I haven't been paying you enough attention lately. I'm ...

Obsessed

wholeliving.com I have a new yoga obsession. Handstand. I can't stop it. I just kick and kick and kick up every chance I get. I'm no...

10 Things You Shouldn't Think About During Savasana

I have all sorts of inappropriate thoughts during Savasana that never pop into my head any other time. Here just a sampling of what I though...

Glamorous Yoga Poses

As I write this blog, I'm watching the Oscar Awards red carpet... There are glamorous movie stars in fabulous sparkly dresses and neat t...