What Am I Studying Right Now?

Yoga and Chronic Low Back Pain.

I’ve done two great webinars this week exploring chronic low back pain and movement. While I’m still integrating much of what I’ve learned, I wanted to jot down a few quick notes to share with you some of what’s new in movement applications for low back pain and some of the updates to rese..read more

Online Yoga Teacher Training Will Continue For Now

I'm so sorry to see all the outbreaks and lockdowns around Australia this week. I hope that you are all coping okay and that you and your loved ones are all safe and sound.  With this new round of outbreaks I'm reminded that we are not nearly 'back to normal' yet, so as I make plans for the next few yoga programs I h..read more

Boundaries: Tips for Maintaining Your Practice as a Teacher

  This week I had a great chat with a teacher in training, and she remarked that her yoga practice had changed in that now her mind is busy noticing cues, transitions, sequences, and other teaching skills when participating in a class, rather than just focussing on her own practice. I could really ..read more

Yesterday I marked the 15-year anniversary of my first yoga teacher training course, and did the best thing to acknowledge the date, celebrated the completion of my 45th yoga teacher training class.

What I feel the most in this moment is gratitude; gratitude that I am still able to do this ..read more

I got this question from a teacher trainee this week, and it does tend to come up a lot, so I thought I'd share my answer with you (that is, how I'd answer this question this week)

To Practice Ahimsa Do You Have to Be Vegetarian?

To the question about..read more

Life in lockdown has been boring.  It's necessary, I have no qualms about staying at home to help my community (and the world!) overcome this pandemic, but life has gotten small.  So, my sister came up with this great idea of how to stay hopeful, optimistic, and how to prepare to start having adventures again, big and small, once we can all move back ..read more

Download Free Yoga Aims Cards

To start this New Year, I thought I’d share with you some Yoga Aims Cards that I made for my own practice.

A few months ago in a post I did on ..read more

Spiced Pumpkin Soup

Spiced Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 Sugar Pumpkin (or 2 15oz/425gram cans pumpkin)
  • 1 Tbsp butter
  • 1 yellow onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced  
  • 2 teaspoons fresh ginger peeled and grated *
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ..read more

Something many of you might not know about me is that I had a car accident when I was a teenager and my face was quite badly damaged. I’ve had a lot of surgery and a lot of various therapies since then, but my face still hurts most days.  So, when I learned this face massage sequence in my Thai Yoga Massage training it became a staple in my self-..read more

What Do Beginning Yoga Students Need?

 

What do New Yoga Teachers Need to Remember About Teaching Beginner's Yoga ?

This has been a common discussion in my yoga teacher training programs for years now – what can the general public comfortably do in a yoga class?  Are they binding their toes in a seated forward fold?  Are they flowing into Upward Fa..read more