The best place to seek God is in a garden.  You can dig for him there.  ~George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1932 In practice tonight, Tammy asked us to plant a seed inside of us. We would then cultivate it and watch it grow. My seed […]

“Fall with awareness and acceptance.” ~ Brian Kest I braced myself against the cold wind as I walked from my car to the warm Inner Bliss studio. My boots chilled out with the other pairs on the gray mat; my puffy jacket snuggled in to the coat rack. *Sigh* I made it. One of the […]

Corpse pose restores life.  Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released.  ~Terri Guillemets I set an alarm this morning to make sure I was up for a morning yoga class. 🙂 Outside, the rain melted the newly fallen snow. Inside, I set the intention for my yoga practice to just melt […]

“Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.”  ~Patanjali, translated from Sanskri I missed all the morning yoga classes today because we slept in–waaaaay in. But, oh, how good it felt to do just that! Well, I thought to myself, I can miss yoga today. I’ve done it for 10 days in a row already, […]

“A photographer gets people to pose for him.  A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.”  ~Terri Guillemets Today is Dan’s birthday, and we started off our morning with a luxurious massage. After a wonderful afternoon, I went to Laura’s class at 4:30 in the afternoon–a perfect time right now at Inner Bliss as […]

“The goal is not to tie ourselves in knots … we’re already tied in knots. The aim is to untie the knots in our hearts. The aim is to unite with the ultimate, loving, and peaceful power in the universe.” ~ Max Strom Thursday. My week is done as I am taking off Friday for […]

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~ Lao Tzu The first snow is falling on this Wednesday night. It’s oh so pretty. The trees glisten, every branch still reaching. I take it slow getting to Kimberley’s 5:45 class–because it’s snowing, because it’s nearing winter, and nature is […]

You can search the whole universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than yourself. Since each and every person is so precious to themselves, Let the self-respecting harm no other being. – Buddha After being a beginner on Monday night with Tammy, for my seventh class, I took Tammy’s HOT Powerful […]

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi We are all beginners at one time. Tonight, I became one again as I took Tammy’s beginner class at Inner Bliss with my dear friends Jill and Angelina. I was looking forward to slowing down and learning […]

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~ Maya Angelou Wow, I have done yoga 4 days in a row! Go me! And then my expectations creep in: Why are my hips still tight? Why is it hard for me to focus today? Is this even […]