Category Archives: Relax

What If Your Heart Was Open?

Is it better to have lived and loved than never to have opened your heart? COMMENT HERE – What one thing could you do today to share what you’re really feeling?

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To Do or Not To Do? The Yoga of Balance

My friend Kristen, who is on a 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge, sighed into the phone. “What’s up?” I asked. “My To Do List looks like a seizure on paper,” she said. I can relate: too much to do, too … Continue reading

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Three Things I’ve Learned From Sweaty, Naked People

Over the past 12 years, I’ve touched more than 5000 sweaty, naked people. By choice. I am a hot yoga teacher. (No, not a “hot” yoga teacher…a Hot 26 Yoga teacher.) Our western culture tends to frown upon public nakedness … Continue reading

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I’m not just a hot yoga teacher…

I realized one dark, sleepless night, that I am not just a hot yoga teacher. I am my own best hot yoga client. I am a woman with too much to do, and too many ghosts to feed.  Last night, … Continue reading

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Yoga Speak

You’ve heard Valley Girl Talk. You recognize Rap. But – do you speak yoga?  I started doing yoga when I was 15, back in the early 70s.  No one knew what the heck I was talking about. Was I … Continue reading

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One Minute of Hot Yoga

You don’t have more than a minute to spare to try hot yoga? Well, here’s 90 minutes of hot yoga in under one minute. After 15 years of teaching hot yoga, I honestly believe you can get some benefits just … Continue reading

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Is Hot Yoga Just Balmy?

When someone talks about hot yoga, do you think they’re just balmy? “You do yoga in 105 degree heat – by choice?” Never in a million years would you choose to get into a hot, sweaty room filled with other … Continue reading

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Breathe In…Breathe Out…Laugh Out Loud

Sometimes the best yoga pose is a laugh. I love it when things get really hot and heavy and serious in the hot yoga room, and then…someone farts. What a break for everyone. Laughter heals by distraction; it takes your … Continue reading

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The Dangers of Yoga

A New York Times article suggested that yoga can cause serious injury, everything from slipped disks to sudden stroke and ultimately, death. After all, if yoga is so great, explain the fact that people who do yoga just keep dying. … Continue reading

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Yoga for Back Pain

Does back pain rule your life? Have tried all the remedies, only to have your back pain resurface? You may be lost in the Bermuda Triangle of Back Pain, but never fear: follow these 3-steps and you’re out! By the … Continue reading

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