Yoga Blog

Everyone wants to live forever. That’s why there have been countless searches for a magical elixir that offers immortality. The reality is we are surrounded by birth and death, both a natural fact of our human existence.  I recently read that “Ram Dass often quotes Carlos Castenada’s books, where Don Juan says to keep death over your left shoulder – just staying with each moment as it is, realizing that life and death are right here all the time. Death is the only wise advisor that we have, according to Don Juan. Remember that life is precious. Preciousness doesn’t mean that it is supposed to go on forever. It means that when you are in the present for even a moment, it’s precious. There’s no time and space in the moment, but there is immortality.” (Walking Each Other Home, Conversations on Loving and Dying, by Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush,

This is a story my husband Bob and I wrote together. It is a couple of decades years old, but it is still fun to read and worth sharing today. It was previously published in The Cracker Barrel, a Wilmington, VT magazine. Riding a bicycle for many miles can be a challenge for anyone. Riding 470 miles in 6 days over the Continental Divide twice, in temperatures ranging from 32 degrees to 99 degrees, well, this takes a certain mental attitude of determination no matter who you are. Now, try it on a tandem mountain bike when you’ve never been on one before, try it when one rider has never been on a bike for more than 25 miles at a time before, and try it with minimal seasonal training. Now, to top it off, try it with your spouse! Last summer we ventured to Colorado to do just that

Yoga’s one of the best practices you can add to your routine. It gives you a way to strengthen and sculpt your body, remove unwanted body fat and increase flexibility without the impact of traditional exercise. Not to mention there’s many other physical, spiritual and emotional benefits that can be achieved in very little time. We go into detail below but we’ve also wrapped the benefits into an infographic for fun. Check it out. Click here to read full article.

For me, it all started when I started to let go of the mental thought-processes of doubt, worry, and fear, and allowed myself to fall into heart-centered feelings of unconditional love and deep faith in a higher power. For me, it was a process of realizing that life was much more than using my intellect to figure things out, or even just having a positive-based belief system. For me, it was learning to follow a path that included diving more deeply into my yoga practice – being more deeply devoted to the ideal of oneness, of One Love, of Christ consciousness, of learning to live in the eternity of each moment. For me, it was about embodying with wholeheartedness a lifestyle of loving awareness and authentic presence. Of course, these awakenings usually come about in our darkest moments, right? It was no different for me. I remember the moment specifically

Yoga is a practice to re-awaken the natural loving-kindness that rests deep in our souls. We re-vitalize feelings of love for all beings and all of Earth. We direct awareness both inward and outward to feel deeply connected and at One with all of life. We realize the gift of the present moment. We feel humbled by the sacredness of Life, and empowered by our abilities to serve with integrity and dignity. Practice might take the form of the classical methods of posture practices, breath work, and meditation; it could also take the form of service work, intellectual study, or devotional practice. When we take care of our bodies and our own way-of-living, as well as how we live our lives in our communities and in service of the greater good, we each lay the foundation of a deeper yoga practice… and a healthier, more fulfilling and sustainable lifestyle. When