Is your yoga practice helping or hindering you through your menopause transition? Not all yoga is suitable for different symptoms or stages. If you don't sleep through the night and feel overwhelmed, would you practice a dynamic Vinyasa yoga class? Or, for that...
The Journey Yoga and Ayurveda work hand-in-hand, they are sisters. Ayurveda tells us that peri-menopause is not a movement from Pitta into the Vata phase. It is very much a Pitta experience in and of its own right. Listening to our bodies and tending to our needs with...
Crossing the River With each stage in a woman’s life, she changes – puberty, pregnancy, and menopause are all significant, yet very different milestones in a woman’s cycle of life. Menopause is the sacred act of crossing the river from the reproductive stage of life...
The Sleep Edition Sleep, why is it sometimes so difficult? You know you are tired, you have been yawning all evening. Yet, when you get into bed sleep does not come instead you are visited by thoughts that run over every little detail of your day. We have all...
Learning to be still and quiet in a fast paced world. Open yourself up to practicing restorative yoga you won’t regret it!
Restorative yoga looks and feels we are doing nothing which in itself is like being a fallow bed in a garden. Yet what is actually happening in the poses is a deep unwinding of physical, emotional and mental stress as our wired nervous systems untangle quieten down and reset. When you deeply support the body with as many props as you have available and hold each pose for at least 15 minutes, the whole body sighs in delight sinking into the props and letting go. Try it and see!