A Crunchy Life

This week I taught my first “public” yoga class. The experience was humbling, but not because the students were unkind. Really, it was the contrary. They were sweet and supportive and I didn’t mix up my left from my right too often. I think I felt humbled because I had such a sense of responsibility [...]

I LOVE this picture. One of my aunts gave it to me in the past year as they were working on cleaning my grandparents’ home. The woman in the rocking chair is my great-grandmother, the one standing on the left, my grandmother, and the woman in yellow is my mother. Me, I’m the little girl [...]

People, it’s mid-semester for me already. I’m in a bit of shock about that fact. As in, it’s been that many weeks already? But yes, it has. As in the case with many an autumn, it feels like life has been on overdrive. You know that feeling, don’t you? Even if you aren’t tied to [...]

Or pushed out of my mind from time to time!  It goes back to softening, doesn’t it?  This week I have been practicing this after writing and reading your comments and other forms of contact.  I’ll give you a little glimpse: I finished reading a book for pleasure, let myself read more of the newest [...]

Asking the question last week, out loud to the world, was the beginning of what I needed to get myself moving again. It’s funny how I can forget to apply the material that I teach my students to my own life. Public commitments are one of the best ways to get ourselves to follow through [...]

It’s one of those Mondays where I look around, see chaos and “mess” all about my house, a to-do list a mile long, and responsibilities calling my name. After being immersed in an intense weekend of yoga teacher training (the first of many to come!), returning to this Monday morning is particularly stark. But, but. [...]

After taking Inside Out with Shannon, I had a short bucket list of things that I wanted to do someday, which was added to when I took the e-course with her again.  (If you ever have the chance to take this course, DO IT!)  One of the things I put on the list was learning [...]

It happens every year in March, a teasing taste of what’s to come.  There are blue skies today, the sun is shining and we’re supposed to hit at least 60. While I have lamented the lack of winter in these parts, I am going to relish this glimpse of spring today. I’ve been holed up [...]

Lately I have this sense that I don’t know what I’ve been doing with  my time.  I certainly haven’t been in this space, as evidenced by my lack of posting.  I’ve had a hard time letting myself be okay with not knowing where my time has gone.  I worry that much of it has been [...]

Yesterday I visited my vegetable garden in the 30 degree weather.  All the work of the past year laid out before me, and all the work left undone, too. So now come my guilty gardening confessions. I didn’t clean out my beds this year. Not just the old plants that should have gone to the [...]