Last week in my classes I was talking a lot about the Zen concept of Shoshin or beginner’s mind.  Beginner’s mind refers to the idea of bringing an attitude of openness and curiosity to a subject, and letting go of preconceptions.  The problem is, when we have some fam...

Wow - a little over one year ago today I was a mess!  We were days away from our grand opening and we still had so much to do.  Wacky weather delayed our final inspections, we still needed a front door and the pendant lights were hung so low that only people under 5’6...

I don’t know about you, but I get a lot of junk mail clogging up my inbox, and because I’m a holistic health coach, much of it revolves around wellness and weight loss. Here are just a few titles of ridiculous articles I’ve received over the past week: “The Number 1 Wa...

People are funny.  People are funny without even knowing they’re funny.  One thing that I often hear new students say that makes me laugh out loud is “I’m not good at yoga.”  My go-to reaction to this statement is “there’s no such thing at being good at yoga.”...

If patience is a virtue, then I’m not a very virtuous person.  In fact, waiting is so hard for me that I had to give up on manicures years ago because I simply don’t have the patience to wait for nail polish to dry.  That being said, the delays and hiccups involved in...

People often think that yoga teachers must be super chilled out and relaxed. Ha!!  You know there’s a reason that we were attracted to the practice in the first place, right?  It’s because most of us needed yoga pretty desperately.  So, when Sarah and I first talked ab...