Category Archives: Stress

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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How can hot yoga support your real life? Anchor it!

When you practice 90 minutes of hot yoga, you learn to challenge yourself, feel good about your accomplishments, then allow yourself the luxury to fully relax. But what about the other 1200+ daily minutes of real life outside of hot … 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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Help Wanted: Yoga for Anger Management

The lastest widsom says you have to watch out for bad yoga teachers. You think you came to yoga to relax? Wake up! No closing your eyes in savasana -  you have to be on the lookout for yoga teachers … 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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Day 20: The Yoga of The Vatican Walk

Does God close His doors? Apparently so, at 4PM each day in Vatican City But we don’t know the time of day. We know about savoring pizza and Piazze and a million little unplanned points. We linger at store windows … Continue reading

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