Struggle: the Third Phase of Change
After the meltdown. After dreaming of a new life. After forming new plans. It’s time to take action. Unfortunately, things seldom go as planned. This phase of change is a predictable struggle… and that’s ok.
Plan Your Way Back to Life
It’s easy to rush ahead with your exciting ideas. But if you’re coming back after a big change, taking some time to figure out your plans will keep you from getting lost and forgetting your dreams.
Dream: The Second Phase of Change
As you start to move out of the initial shock and pain of change - it’s time to start dreaming up your new life… let yourself linger in the sweetness of your dreams.
Meltdown: The First Phase of Change
The first phase of change requires a melting. The meltdown requires false selves, constructed selves, even idyllic selves to fall away into the void. When all that settles down, what’s left is the diamond strong core at your center.
The Spark: Change Starts Here
How to change when you’ve been stuck being someone you’re not
Change 101
A brief introduction to the change process from spark to freedom and everything in between
6 Ways to Know if You’re ready to go to a Yoga Workshop
Life Coach and Yoga Teacher offers six considerations that can help you decide if you’re ready to go to a yoga workshop
In a Mood? Come back to your Body
It’s totally normal for your moods to go up and down… but what do you do when you’re stuck in a bad one for a while?
You are the Dancer
All of life is in a dance of opening and closing. When you are stressed, mindfulness invites you to let your heart open and close. Remember you are part of nature. Be aware of yourself as part of an eternal dance of expansion and contraction. In doing so, find peace.
You’ve Got the Power
What a slippery devil this human mind is. It takes the smallest, neutral moment and turns it into an atomic bomb. The mind, the most exquisite jailer comes with the perfect key. The one that, when turned, locks you into patterns of inactivity, inertia, and self-diminishment. The one who laughs at your every attempt to break free.
And yet, dear one. The jailer that is your mind, is also you liberator. The same one who put you behind those bars is the one that offers you freedom. Those thoughts that hold so much weight become beacons of light when turned over and seen for what they are.
Get Unstuck by Untying your Mind
Sometimes it feels like a simple problem is way harder to unravel than it should be. Like everything is tangled into a big knot and it won’t come free. So how can you work with your mind to find some freedom? Read on…
Bodies & Poses
Practicing alignment-based yoga can bring up perfectionism. Remember that your body is unique and you are in a relationship with every pose. When you focus on relationship you can deepen into the state of yoga - something that has nothing to do with the “perfection” of any pose
How to Get Affirmations to Work
When you’re struggling to make affirmations work, consider where your affirmation is coming from and learn to make them yourself