I’ve been doing yoga off and on for over a decade. In some ways, tonight felt like my first class. Tonight is the first time in memory that I have not had to abort a sequence to go into child’s pose multiple times during a class. Granted, it was not a flow class, but that […]
Days Like This
A friend once asked me why I reference my day “off” in quotation marks. It’s because working several part-time jobs, it’s hard to really take a day off. It’s true that working from home means it’s hard to stop working. My days “off” are days I don’t need to leave the house and go somewhere […]
Yoga and Strength
I’ve recently gotten back into yoga. And it’s strange. Because I know intellectually that I’m not in as good of physical shape as I might like to be. I know that I’m objectively “fat.” But even when I’m doing a modification for a pose or several, even when I have to go into child’s pose instead […]
Play a Day: A New Leaf
A woman reaches into the back of her closet, and dusting off her yoga mat, slings it over her shoulder and heads out the door.
The Power of Words
I’m usually not a huge fan of labels. I prefer to self-identify in ambiguous terms. Life is complicated and if I learned anything in graduate school it’s that dichotomies are always false, if easier for the human brain to comprehend sometimes. That said, sometimes naming something can be really useful. I’ve always known I can […]
Thoughts in the Bath
Tonight the sunset was beautiful here. And I felt grateful to see it. It is a small blessing in my life that it is no longer pitch black when I get off work… nothing is worse than feeling it’s the middle of the night before you’ve even had dinner. Whenever I most seriously entertain the […]
My Body, Myself
It’s the new year and a time when a lot of people are making New Year’s Resolutions, and a common one is always dieting. I, on the other hand, have never been big on dieting. I love food and I find when I try to count calories that I just end up obsessed with food […]
A World of Abundance
There are some insights I’ve been wanting to hash out, but I’ve been too sick and brain fuzzy. I woke up this morning with laryngitis and had to call in, so I’ve had the day to rest and sleep. Feeling a bit better, but now whatever I’ve got’s moved from my sinuses to my chest. […]
Shifting Gears
It was raining when I got off work today and I was running late for yoga so I figured I’d make the rest of the trek home in the semi-light and just not worry about the fact that my pass is going to expire Saturday with an unused class. I can make up the $10 […]
Synergy; or, Life is like…
I went to hot yoga again tonight. I’m going to a different yoga place for a while because it’s cheaper. But because I’m not used to hot yoga somewhere in the middle I get light-headed from being hot and sweating so much and have to spend some time in child’s pose. And I was trying […]