Category Archives: Yoga and women

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

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge, Anxiety, Hot yoga, Humor, Real Life Yoga, Relax, Self help, Stress, Yoga and women | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Can Hot Yoga Maintain Breast Health?

Why wait till Breast Cancer Awareness Month to care for your breasts? We do it in every day, in every hot yoga class. Can hot yoga help you maintain healthy breasts? First, the statistics: one in three women in the … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Hot yoga, Yoga and women | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Day 12: The Yoga of Martyrs, Monks and Me, Part 2: San Marco

Thanks to the outer guidance of friends and the inner guidance to just keep my feet moving, I find the Museum of San Marco at the other side of the Ponte Vecchio where I have been wandering, yet so close … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Italy, My Trip to Florence, Natural healing, Real Life Yoga, Relax, Self help, Yoga and women | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Day 11: The Yoga of Martyrs, Monks and Me, Part 1: Santa Croce

I wandered into Santa Croce today. That’s my yoga here in Florence: wandering. I find what I have been asking for, or it finds me. Today I was asking for direction, the kind you can’t find on a street map. … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Feeling Good, Italy, My Trip to Florence, Real Life Yoga, Relax, Self help, Stress, Yoga and women | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Day 9: The Yoga of Teachers and Students

If art is the soul of each day for me here in Florence, my Italian lessons with Elisa are the heart. Everyday, Elisa and I meet at different times, at different cafes in different Piazze, to sample the many different … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Feeling Good, General, Italy, My Trip to Florence, Real Life Yoga, Relax, Self help, Yoga and women | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Hey Yoga Girl

I didn’t believe in jet leg til I went to bed at 8PM and awoke at Noon today, And now as the last vestiges of jet lag are now wearing off, I sure could use a hot yoga class. Almost … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Feeling Good, Flexible, Humor, Italy, Music, Poetry, Real Life Yoga, Yoga and Love, Yoga and women | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

The Yoga of Living Deliberately

I feel a little like Thoreau: I am going to Italy because I want to live deliberately.  Fearlessly. I am going to Italy to find someone important: the person I know I am, the person I feel that I have … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Feeling Good, Self help, Stress, Yoga and age, Yoga and Love, Yoga and women | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Hot Yoga and Pink Elephants

After 20 years of living one particular way, I am flirting with starting over. There; that’s the Pink Elephant that’s been unacknowledged for way too long. In yoga terms, I have entered the Fourth Stage of life: my children are … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in love, Self help, Yoga and Love, Yoga and marriage, Yoga and women | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Consignment store yoga

I am an unlikely yogi: I love designer clothing and accessories…and bargains. I despise traditional shopping -  high prices, low self image,  mall malaise – but then I discovered enlightened shopping, otherwise known as consignment/resale/vintage shopping. Dare I say it … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Law of Attraction, Yoga and money, Yoga and women | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The yoga of money

Click here for Deepak Chopra Center’s Meditation about money! Great follow up to our blog post yesterday, Yoga and Money and Gold, Oh My! Listen in and comment: is money the root of all evil…or the seeds for greater energy….or … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Feeling Good, General, Mind Body Connection, Stress, Yoga and women | 2 Comments