It’s the middle of the night and I can’t sleep.  It was tough on the street today, yesterday, whatever day it is, I don’t even know anymore.  Karen had spent the morning on the computer with a copy of a the local guidebook plotting a route to various places, a safe restaurant, a better market, […]

Day three and we have settled into our final destination just minutes from the Institute where we will begin classes on Wednesday.  This apartment, on the third floor of a large house, is beautiful.  The room overlooks a garden and a park and there are vegetation and flowers all around.  I have my own room […]

There’s nothing to do but tolerate a fifteen hour plane ride.  I settled in to my twenty by twenty inch space, strategically placing pillows, blankets, and not much more, since I took up the rest of the space.  About five hours into the trip  I awoke and made my way back to the restroom area […]

Early morning my last full day at home, I am watching day break over the pasture from the comfort of my warm bed.  Wistful and eager all at once.  The Sunflowers and Black-eyed Susans are the only things awake with color in this early dawn, even the Morning Glory, which I diligently grew from seed […]

I recently received my teaching certification from the Iyengar National Association of the U.S. The assessment is a two part process taking over five years to complete. A successful candidate must have taught yoga in the Iyengar tradition for a minimum of two years before assessment. I had taught for seven years when I began. […]

The power of our actions should never be underestimated. Yesterday my daughter gave me a persuasive essay she wrote for her high school honors English class. It was titled My Mother, and presented a heart-felt description of why she admired me! A delight for any parent. A simple acknowledgment of appreciation and love. Later that […]

Over the weekend I took a wonderful yoga class with Senior Iyengar teacher Elise Miller at the Iyengar Yoga Center of Denver. It was beauty in opposites- soft, hard, moving, still, tense, relaxed, exhausting, refreshing. She gave a splendid example of good teaching skills by systematically weaving us through a variety of poses, while maintaining […]

One of the most common reasons people come to yoga is to address chronic back pain. Those of us who practice yoga regularly know from our own experience that yoga is effective in easing back pain. A recent study in the journal Spine now backs those observations with facts. The study aimed to evaluate the […]