3 (surprising) reasons I keep doing yoga
Mindfulness
This weekend I was on the massage table when out of the blue my therapist asked, "What do you do to heal when someone close to you dies?" I thought for a moment--having experienced a lot of loss in my family--and answered, "I do yoga." I…
7 back-to-school strategies to promote less stress & more flow
Stress Management
It’s 1976. I’m in fifth grade and standing by our front door with my red plaid backpack. My eyes scanning, I watch my four younger brothers dart from room to room. My stomach is in knots. It’s 7:45 a.m. We should have left fifteen…
How do you abandon yourself?
Self-Care
Recently while facilitating a women's retreat at Esalen, I shared my definition of self-care with the group: the art of attuning and responding to your needs and desires moment to moment. And then I asked the circle, "Do you feel safe with…
Can you go with the flow?
Work Life Balance
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”…
Unleashing the power of sisterhood
Women's Empowerment
“We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.” ― Marianne Williamson
I recently spoke at a girls empowerment conference to a group of three hundred ten to thirteen-year-olds.…