by Sherri Koehler | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog Posts, Practice
In 2015 I was asked to sub a class for older adults, Gentle Hatha Yoga. The teacher was going to be gone for a couple of weeks and I was in the system as a sub, the club was running out of options and gave me a ring. After a couple of weeks I was asked if I’d be...
by Sherri Koehler | Jan 31, 2018 | Blog Posts, Practice
New Year’s is a traditional time for new beginnings. I began studying yoga in January 2003, one of those many people trying out yoga for the first time. Overwhelmingly there is a message to change your body. Holidays are over, you overate, and clearly it is time...
by Sherri Koehler | Dec 31, 2017 | Blog Posts
Generosity is a practice that measurably improves our life. The act of generosity is usually portrayed as giving material goods or money. The winter season is full of year-end appeals for donations, this being an important time of year for these funding drives....
by Sherri Koehler | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog Posts
I’d had a plan to write about the slippery slope of using comparison as your gratitude practice, how it robs you of the joy of being truly grateful. Then I saw some great advice about choosing gratitude over apologies. That lead me to a charming comic of this...
by Sherri Koehler | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog Posts
Content Warning: discussion of sexual trauma and abuse by parent (mother) A year ago I responded on Twitter to a hashtag, #NotOK, created by author Kelly Oxford, and spoke publicly about the sexual trauma I’d experienced in the years before I turned 21....