With a Full Heart

I embarked on my journey to become a yoga teacher in 2021. I’ve enjoyed yoga, as a very non-serious and somewhat erratic practitioner, for a number of years. I’d idly said that it would be interesting to be more serious about yoga, to even teach it. When the moment arose, in late 2020, to begin…

Sometimes it is difficult to be grateful, to find thankfulness within us when we are distressed or disappointed, frustrated or angry.  The depths of those emotions are undeniable as is their impact on our overall state of mind and state of being. Whether it is personal stress, concern about the state of the world, anxiety…

I have begun to understand that we are all “factory set” at different frequencies. It’s the level at which our nerves vibrate and hum, the level at which we radiate our energy. I’ve been thinking about this as I’ve thought about my inability to find stillness, my inability to “settle,” a characteristic I have had…

As I write this, I am just wrapping up a year of serving as a coach in a national leadership program. I agreed to take on this role as I do all things I am asked to do—pretty routinely say “sure, be glad to” and ask about the details later! It was a big commitment…

I have new ovens in my kitchen, as of Friday afternoon. No, this is not going to be a rant on my disappointment with my previous ovens, that barely made it eight years, even with two major rounds of repair. That’s a story for another day and another setting. But, I often cook and I…

Years ago, I had a wonderful individual working as my administrative assistant. In truth, the title does not do her justice as she was so much more than that. I was young, new in a big role, managing a large budget and a good-sized staff and responsible for all of the marketing and communication for…

Whether you are celebrating a new year at this time or whether it is a moment when you think, “It’s time,” it is, as the cliche goes, never too late for a new beginning. Sometimes the trigger is a date on the calendar, turning an age that ends in a “0” or a “5,” or…

I heard someone say, recently, that being a woman “of a certain age,” carried with it the “gift” of invisibility. They said that no one really even saw you anymore, that no one thought much about who you were or what you did, one way or the other. That comment has been clanging around in…

In December 2020, at the end of a year that felt a hundred years long, I read an email to my husband. I told him that one my favorite yoga teachers, and one of my favorite people, was offering a yoga teacher training course. She had partnered with two other teachers and they’d created an…