When Change is in the Air

It’s 5 am and I just left my house for my yurt to turn on my propane stove. The earth is crunchy with frost. The sky is crazy clear, the stars bright white in sharp contrast to the deep black sky. The air is freezing. It’s October 3 and change is in the air.

What Yoga Teachers can learn from Ayurveda

As a yoga teacher you learn Svastha – to be seated in the Self. As you learn yoga… you’ll keep bumping into Ayurveda. It’s the same coin – with Yoga on one side and Ayurveda on the other. As you start to move deeper into your body, you start to crave the system of Ayurveda. […]

Hip Ayurveda Family Wisdom

Get your bodies into deeper balance while having a good time. This mother and son have a sparkling conversation that will crack you up. Check the inside out version of a progressive, ayurvedically-informed household.

Moon Salutations Cheatsheet

Moon Salutations Cheatsheet – print it and pin to your yoga practice area. Or better yet, PRINT 20 + share at your local studio 🙂

Detox Cheatsheet: Daily Checklist + Food Guidelines

Step 1: Detox your kitchen
The first rule of detox is make space. Make space in your fridge. Make space on your counter. Get our your blender and your juicer. Chuck the junk. You don’t need it anymore and you won’t want it when we’re done.

How to Detox Without Losing Weight

What is the Detox Opportunity for the Skinny Yogini? Detox is a concentrated time where we try new habits on. Changing habits is hard. During a detox we change a lot of habits all at once. These habit changes aren’t meant to be sustainable. The shift is a Great Leap Forward. We have a great leap. A massive reset. And from this new seat we decide that which is worth maintaining in the day to day.

Listen to the video where Beth and I uncover the opportunity for her to reset her physiology in tune with the rest she needs. We work out an easy plan for her to use the yogidetox to reset:

5 Steps to Detox Cheatsheet

Dear YogiDetoxer,

I’ve created a few cheatsheets for you in anticipation of your upcoming at-home-retreat/self-care upgrade sess.

Here is the first one. It’s a Treasure Hunt for your Better Body. It’s also 5 Steps to your Yogidetox. Enjoy. Share the love. Pin. etc.

Here is your next cheatsheet. Print. And Share!

Resolve to be Useful

I’ve been noticing the conversation “out there” about resolutions. The tide seems to be shifted away from resolutions (argument: they don’t work) and towards something else. The something else isn’t well articulated. Here is my two cents: Humans are part of a cyclical planet. Cycles have pulsation. Resolve is part of the pulsation. If we […]

Solstice Update + Freedom Lifestyle

It’s been awhile since I gave you the family update. We are at the Mexican coast for the winter. The goddess of the full moon and the solstice is gifting us with big phat waves. For my family, that is the best gift we can imagine. I’m riding the most powerful waves of my life. […]

The Yogi’s Dharma + the Holy Daze

Most western yogis are situated in a crux during the month of December. The more yoga we do the more aparigraha, a yogic tenet of non-greed, non-attachment, and non-hoarding, takes root. The Yogi’s heart stops associating the feeling of lack with materials need, and starts to associate the feeling of lack with disconnect from the Universal.