Cultivating Confidence

I’m so grateful that Yoga has helped me reframe my life as a journey of Inspired Living. An adventure of learning the skills of Curiosity, Creativity and Courage in practice of doing what matters most. In being my most authentic compassionate self, I build confidence and competence to be me, in process, perfectly imperfect me…. Read More

Courage of a Cowboy

Do you have it? As the daughter of a Bull Rider, I don’t know that I’ve ever really FELT brave, but I have had a lot of opportunities to practice. My folks met in Rodeo Club in college. Dad rode bulls and broncs (that’s a horse) and bareback (a horse without a saddle). Mom raced… Read More

Life as a Creative Practice

Creativity as a Practice “There are no rules to creativity.” At least according to Laura Jaworski. Whether you consider yourself creative or not, for many, creativity is both completely captivating and entirely frightening. Perhaps Laura’s no rules perspective makes creativity feel too risky? And yet the temptation for something new often outweighs the risks. Creativity… Read More

Curiosity killed the Cat (Inspired Shift, step 2)

Curiosity killed the cat.” That’s like saying hunger made me fat. Curiosity is the magic that drives inquiry, passion and engagement. Walt Disney identified curiosity as one of the 4 conditions that make dreams come true along with courage, consistency and confidence. I don’t know of a test or assessment tool for measuring Curiosity, but… Read More

Inspired Shift: Embrace change

As Winter starts to shift toward Spring, I find my sense of energy increasing and my enthusiasm for shift waking up! It’s been a long, hard few years and I’ve been hanging on to a sense of “normal” with a death grip. Truth be told, I’m not even sure what normal should look like! But… Read More

Three Tips for Spiritual Spring Cleaning

For a Spring in your Step, try these THREE tips for Spiritual Health this Season Summer, fall and winter have their fans, but spring is clearly the best season. It’s the season of fresh starts and new beginnings. Sure, January offers a new year, but there’s nothing like the first sprouts of spring to remind… Read More

Yoga as a DAILY practice

What do we mean by “Practice”? Practice makes perfect, or so they say. And yet, in real life, repeated practice just makes more precise that which we are practicing. If we practice poorly, we will get better at doing the thing poorly. If we practice well, wisely and with attention, then our practice becomes the… Read More

Courage: a practice of compassion in action

Strategy for Cultivating Courage Courage and bravery are often used interchangeably and yet are they the same? More importantly, what does it take to be courageous in living life, especially when things get hard? Here’s a strategy I’ve been practicing and teaching. It’s what I call Inspired Shift. It’s an intentional a practice for cultivating… Read More

Longing & Belonging

With the arrival of shorter days and colder temperatures, I find myself longing for a hot beverage, a cozy blanket, and a good book. On rainy days the longing might even result in a second cup of coffee and fuzzy socks! Is this longing a sign for concern? Does this indulgent course of action warrant… Read More

Meditation or Mindfulness?

Yoga is often projected as complicated contortion requiring equal parts strength, hyper-flexibility and balance. In fact, in many ways, Yoga is a catch-all label commonly used to refer to shapes and postures expressed by the body through effort. Contrarily, Yoga is really SO MUCH MORE! The shapes, what Patanjali called Asana comprises only one of… Read More

The Practice of Asking Questions

I ask a lot of questions.  As an academic trained in the scientific method and research protocols, confidence and comfort were embedded within the system of acquiring knowledge and deciphering “Truth”.  Early in my Yoga study, teachers introduced me to the idea that Yoga is a science rooted in inquiry and investigation. This idea of… Read More

Healthy Living… an experiment in yoga living

Now that I’ve been walking this yoga path for some time, I have a few questions that have been percolating of late in regard to yoga, self-love and healthy living. For the sake of your health, what are you noticing? In my advanced Yoga studies at Kripalu institute, I was introduced to the BRFWA (an… Read More