Miracles and Wonders

At the beginning of December I was on my way to Puerto Vallarta, the first stop on my way to attend a transformational retreat on offering yoga at end-of-life. Mexico was an astounding place to visit. From delightful people, happy to help me practice my very rusty...
Bedside Yoga for End-of-Life Care

Bedside Yoga for End-of-Life Care

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...
Just Enough

Just Enough

Last month Trinity College Dublin released a study* that identifies how the brain functions when prāṇāyāma helps us to focus. The study revealed activity in an area of the brainstem, the locus coeruleus, which produces noradrenaline. This chemical helps us to focus...
10 Years of Teaching

10 Years of Teaching

This month, as of October 15th, I have been honored to teach yoga for 10 years. A decade of offering the light of Yoga to others. There have been some breaks in there, times when my own health needed attention and the rest of not teaching. The span however, from my...

Yogastha Kuru Karmani

On September 5, 2008, I started my 200+ hour teacher training course for Hatha Yoga in Portland, Oregon. Although I’d successfully completed a shorter, beginning teacher training course in Seattle, Washington, in the spring of 2006, this training established me...