Most of my blog posts are about making things easy. Like here. Or here. And here. Well, this post is about honoring the complicated....

I was talking with a yoga teacher friend of mine about my on-demand video library and she was surprised to hear that my most popular videos

I never wanted to be a YouTube yoga teacher. In fact, I still don’t. But… You can now find my Restorative Yoga classes on YouTube. Here’s...

I was deeply inspired by a recent email I received from teacher, mother, writer and resting advocate, Octavia Raheem. She implored me and...

Is your default compassion when someone is going through a tough time? Mine definitely isn’t! The other day a friend texted me and I...

Rest with Restorative Yoga. Sounds so simple, right? But when I’m feeling taxed or overwhelmed or run down, my go-to is lay on the couch...

Confession: I used to avoid savasana. (I know, I know. The Restorative Yoga advocate is here saying I used to skip savasana. I can hardly...

The other day a friend shared this: Does that sound familiar to you? It certainly does for me and I felt joyful about my friend’s feeling...

My son Will is a dreamer, a thinker, a creative mind kind of kid. Sometimes I’ll catch him just sitting still, staring at this elaborate...

I taught my last in-person class on March 14, four and half months ago. It’s been a time of such upheaval. But it’s also been a time of...

It’s the third day of protests in the DC area (as well as in many other parts of the US.) By now, everyone has heard about the death of...

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -H. P. Lovecraft...

Today, I Rest I don’t need fancy moves today. I don’t want handstands or crow poses, hollow body holds or revolved triangles. I don’t...

Seems a likely time to talk about monsters on the day after Halloween but it was actually something else that inspired this month’s...

This past weekend, I had the great privilege of spending a few hours learning from a brilliant teacher named Sam Rice. Her workshop was...

Many years ago, I heard this piece on NPR about how multitasking is a delusion. We think we are doing more than thing at once but what’s...

On Sunday I’m going to do something that I haven’t done in a long time. And I’m nervous about it. I’m playing in a piano recital. In...

A few days ago, I took a yoga class that felt like the Wild West of yoga. Folks were doing random headstands and handstands, crow poses...

Have you ever seen the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”? Definitely not a cinematic masterpiece but a chuckle worthy early 2000’s...

One of my kids’ favorite book characters is Chico Bon Bon from the “Monkey with A Tool Belt” series by Chris Monroe. Do you know these...