Contentment. When was the last time you felt content? And not just a passing, contentment with the lot, which when put that way seems to imply a settling for something. But the kind of contentment that relaxes you, warms your heart and that you don’t want to just be a…
Last month I attended a workshop on Mantras and Malas at The Mat Yoga Studio, where I had the opportunity to create my own mala beads. Through Instagram and online articles, I’ve seen mala beads in so many pictures, adding to pictures of serenity. But what exactly are mala beads? What’s…
I took my first outdoor yoga class last year, and in a big way! It was Dallas’ All Out Trinity festival, which included a one-hour yoga session on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, along with cycling events and a race. One side of the bridge was closed off for us yogis for…
It may be cliché to say, but change is not easy. It can be uncomfortable and maybe a little unsettling. But…it’s necessary to move forward, to grow. That uncomfortable feeling can even accompany conscious, healthy changes. Let’s say you are making a seemingly simple change for healthier snacks, but it…
One of my favorite quotes about love -about saying I love you – is from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. It’s a quote that is about the self, when her character says one “must first know how to say the ‘I’”. Now I realize quoting Rand in a post about yoga may…
January. The start of a new year and the start of so many resolutions or goals, as I like to look at them. And for many, one of these may be beginning a yoga practice, or at the very least, trying yoga for the first time. There are many health…