Every day you get to choose the people in your company.  Every day you have the opportunity to become Great company yourself.

The story of how I accidentally ended up having my own practice space. It is a story of going against my habit and saying YES every time an opportunity came along.  

An awakened heart is one that lives and breathes.  To awaken your heart means that you can connect with a stream of wisdom that resides inside of you.

In the Bhagavad Gita, we’re taught that of all the paths, the Heart is the highest.  This teaching is a permission slip to do as Rumi says, "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” 

Is it really possible that more ease and balance could come from just paying attention to how I am feeding my body, mind, and Heart?  It seems too simple.  

Naomi shares what her parents taught her about self-care that helps her keep with it as a mama to two young children.

 As Ashaya Yoga® founder, Todd Norian, often says, “It’s not how far you go, but how you go far” that matters here.

Sometimes the work is in the consistent tiny efforts -- that even those tiny little efforts build up into something more.

What is the lasting impression you want to leave on your students?

Yesterday, after 9.5 years, I taught my last class at a studio in town. I wanted to leave the students with a teaching that would serve them for years to come. And so I left with this:

Yoga is a place to experiment, to test, and to let yourself get messy, knowing that it is giving you feedback about what works and what doesn't.  Feedback that you can build your LIFE on if you really listen. 

When I take a well-themed class I get the chance to remember and recollect some forgotten part of myself.  I walk away feeling more whole than when I went in.  The themes help us to remember.

As adults its easy to forget what made our hearts sing.  It's easier to get caught up in what needs doing rather than making time for what doesn't HAVE to be done but only wants to be done.  But I firmly believe in the need to make, to create... and to fully engage in that process.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the craft of teaching yoga.  Not the skills or knowledge I'm hoping to impart to the students, but the craft of how I'm sharing what I know.  The following thoughts came to me and it is something I'd like to fully live into: