The Science of Exercise and Addiction Recovery
For someone who is in recovery from addiction, staying on the right track is easier when you have a complete mind-body approach to well being. Physical fitness has great effects on your overall health,...
View ArticleHow to Learn to Listen to Your Body
We expect so much from our body. Strength, flexibility, health, hours on end of working and at times, unrealistic expectations. Especially when you take a moment to consider what do you do for our...
View Article5 Ways to Live Yoga Off the Mat
In today’s world, it’s so easy to get caught up in our hectic lives always running from here to there, planning for the next hour or day, and giving little thought to the moment. I can’t tell you how...
View ArticlePracticing Yoga In Norwegian (When You Don’t Speak That!)
One of the things I always try to do on vacation is find a yoga studio. It can be challenging, especially when you’re in a foreign country. Courses are often in different styles, and can even be in...
View ArticleQ&A: How can 4 minutes transform your life?
Hey friends! We’re traveling this week but I didn’t want to miss a Q&A, so I thought I’d just write to you instead 🙂 Let me know if you like this format or prefer video! Enjoy! *** The Q: “People...
View ArticleWhat to Do When Meditation Calls
It hit me when I was cycling back home after shopping early afternoon. The need to stop and just be. The call of meditation. My usual cycling route into town takes me onto the palace grounds, through...
View Article7 Halloween Costumes for Lazy Yogis
Halloween is so fun with the scary movies, the candy, the… admiring other people’s ambitious costumes. But months of crafting a perfect costume and hours of face paint aren’t everyone’s bag, and that’s...
View ArticleBad Yogi City Guide: Geneva, Switzerland
Headquarters of many international organizations, Geneva is a small city, but has a lot to offer: beautiful lakescape, mountains really near (so you can go skiing during one day), parks, old town,...
View ArticleWhy I Do Yoga for the Sake of Yoga
There are, of course, many differences between female yoga practitioners and their male counterparts. But there’s one in particular I’ve noticed just recently. It basically comes to this: ask a woman...
View Article4 Ways To Ground Into Autumn
Let’s just start out by saying that I just had one of the most relaxing and buzzy yoga classes of my life. There was nothing particularly special about it, except that it was just *one* of those...
View ArticleIt’s Never “Not That Bad”: Why I’m Saying #MeToo
Sexual harassment has been quite a central theme in my life the past few weeks. This sounds more dramatic than it is, but give me some time to explain. My office is in a big building and a few weeks...
View ArticleAin’t Nobody Got Time For Social Media Trolls
If I had to choose one expression for how I think we should be handling trolls on the internet it would be: Because no one has the energy to handle haters They are in every field, whether you’re...
View Article#MeToo Within the Yoga Community (Video Q&A)
After #MeToo went viral last week, we’ve all been reminded that we live among men like Harvey Weinstein. Not that this is “news” to any of us, but it’s always unsettling to see. And naturally, women...
View ArticleHow Yoga Changed My Job Search
Having recently finished my Masters degree I’ve been thrown head first into a world of confusion — one that’s 100% my own making may I add. What do I want to do with my life? Do I want to stick with...
View ArticleDemystifying Mala Beads (plus a gift certificate giveaway!)
Most yogis probably have some idea about what mala beads are, but we’re betting you also have questions you’ve been too scared to ask, lest you reveal yourself to be not the most Zen, spiritual person...
View ArticleWhat to Eat to Balance Your Chakras
So… what are chakras? Chakras are powerful energy centers in our body. We have tons throughout our body along meridians, palms of our hands, and the bottoms of our feet but today we’ll focus on the 7...
View Article5 Things I Learned from Quitting My Job and Living in a Van
Sometime last year, my husband and I came to the realization that our desk jobs in Washington, DC, weren’t speaking to our souls in the way we’d always dreamed they would. Maybe it’s because we’re...
View ArticleBe Fearless for Halloween & Do Headstand With Me (Free Class!)
This brand new free yoga class is ALL about Headstand! We’ll do a quick warm-up just to prep the body for this powerful pose while conquering all the fears you have about it that usually hold you back....
View Article86 Things I Know About Myself (At This Age)
One day a fellow yogi and I started talking about passion. And the more we talked, the more I wondered what goes into one’s passion? And do passions change with age? I guess the answers are relative to...
View ArticleAre you doing enough yoga? (Q&A)
I think there’s another implied layer to this question that has more to do with habit and motivation. If you’re not SUPER self-disciplined and only get around to doing yoga once a week, is that enough?...
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