Manifest Your Dreams: Set Intentions, Not Resolutions
Manifestations and Intentions Instead of “New Year’s Resolutions” I prefer to call it “New Year’s Manifestations” as it encourages me to set intentions to manifest through out the year ahead. It helps...
View ArticleWill yoga detox your body? (Q&A)
Today’s question comes down to this: Will yoga actually detox your body? If you’ve ever walked past a yoga studio and seen advertisements for Detoxing Yoga Workshops, or if you’ve found some in your...
View ArticleI AM Yoga Challenge Day 3: I am free
Today’s mantra is I am free. Our flow is going to be super fluid and a little unconventional at times because I want you to remember: you are FREE. You usually know this in your life, but in our yoga...
View ArticleI AM Yoga Challenge Day 4: I am confident
Today’s mantra is I am confident. True confidence is when you believe it yourself. It’s not what others think you have, or what you pretend to have with a false front. Confidence comes from an internal...
View ArticleCommitment in Relationships (and Yoga!)
When I was a teenager, everything was just fine. I had good friends, good grades, a supportive family and a healthily unhealthy social life. I was beginning to take those first tentative steps into...
View ArticleI AM Yoga Challenge Day 5: I am creative
Today’s mantra is I am creative. If you’re like most people who are alive and breathing, you probably doubt your creativity quite often. Unless you’re a professional artist of some sort, somewhere...
View ArticleQuitting My New Year’s Resolution
My reasons for wanting to go to Vipassana varied. Yes, I wanted to prove something. I wanted to take what growth I had accomplished this year and put it to the ultimate test as a sort of closure or...
View ArticleI AM Yoga Challenge Day 6: I am optimistic
Today’s mantra is I am optimistic. Optimism takes effort to cultivate so it’s no wonder so many of fall into stretches of time where we feel highly negative. If we don’t stay on top of our mindset and...
View ArticleOne Big Happy Yoga Family
I’m thrilled to say that my family has found a shared activity – one we enjoy even more than watching Netflix together or bickering with one another. Yes, you guessed it … we’re a yoga family! My...
View ArticleI AM Yoga Challenge Day 7: I am Capable
Today’s mantra is I am capable. We’re tackling a fun, playful arm balance today because I want you to remember: even if you can’t fully get there, TRYING is still capable. A lot of times we place...
View ArticleLiving a Meaningful Life: Deciding to Stop Chasing Perfection
So, I was sitting on the floor of my shower one evening… if you’ve never sat in the shower before you’re seriously missing out. In my opinion, it’s better than a bubble bath. It’s also the place where...
View ArticleI AM Yoga Challenge Day 8: I am Loved
Today’s mantra is I am loved. Today’s class is all about love. Loving yourself, your body, and understanding that you’re capable of receiving AND giving love. So naturally, we’re focused on all kinds...
View Article1-Minute Motivation: Do you feel “stuck”?
If you’re feeling stuck and unsure of where to go next or how to make progress, watch this. If you’ve ever strived to improve yourself in any way, feeling stuck or blocked is just a natural (crappy)...
View ArticleI AM Yoga Challenge Day 9: I am Open
Today’s mantra is I am open. On and off the mat, we close ourselves off to opportunity, inspiration, progress, and so many other things. It happens by default when we don’t INTEND to remain open. This...
View ArticleMy Yoga Anxiety: Prep for Teacher Training
I’m slightly freaking out. My yoga teacher training is just around the corner, and I am not ready! I want to be able to handstand for a minute. I want to able to do the splits every single day. I want...
View ArticleQ&A: Why don’t I feel beautiful?
Today’s Q&A really hits home. “K” asked why she just doesn’t believe she’s beautiful, regardless of what her closest friends and loved ones tell her. A lot of us struggle with this and I wanted to...
View ArticleI AM Yoga Challenge Day 10: I am Complete
Today’s mantra is I am complete. There’s no more appropriate mantra for the final day of our challenge than this one. Over the past 10 days, you’ve empowered yourself to come to fully understand how...
View ArticleHow to Know If You’re Doing it Wrong
If you’re struggling, you’re doing it right. Just hear me out. Sometimes we get influenced by the illusion of ease. We see people who do yoga every single day or who workout all the time and think,...
View ArticleStudio Love: Why I Heart “My” Yoga Studio
I live in the San Diego area, which means I have a LOT of options for which yoga studio to make mine. In fact, there may be more yoga studios than Starbucks coffee shops within a five-mile radius of...
View ArticleIs Manifesting Abundance Really All That?
If there’s one thing I have no patience for, it’s cliches. Sometimes people come at me with something inspiring, and I have the comeback cliche to shut them down. Them: “Good things come to those who...
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