I’ve written a lot over the years about the community found at The Mat Yoga Studio, and while I will often use the November post...
Practicing with History
I wrote the newsletter for The Mat Yoga Studio this month (October) and picked history as a theme to explore. While I landed on the...
Continuing to Learn with Fall Workshops
As a perpetual student, September and the transition to fall always makes me nostalgic for back to school. There are certain classes I miss, subjects...
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Starts Again
After a one-year pause, The Mat’s 200-hour yoga teacher training (YTT) starts again in January 2025. Great timing if you’ve been thinking of participating in...
Plano Studio Memories
Earlier this summer, The Mat announced the closure of its Plano studio at the end of the summer. Which makes this a bittersweet post to...
I haven’t been in a power outage in a long, long time. They were kind of fun when I was young and happened at my old house when giant thunderstorms rolled through North Texas, the kind with thunder claps so loud they rattled the walls. There we had a fireplace…
I’m a little behind when I wanted to have completed this post. My internet connection had a little mishap involving my cat and the modem, but all is fixed now. When I received a new AC adapter that fit, I was definitely a happy girl. There’s an internet provider commercial…
I can credit my friend for first introducing me to Wanderlust several years ago. She attended one of their three-day yoga festivals and it sounded so amazing. We had first talked about the possibility of me joining her, but I wasn’t able to fly out for the visit. But then…
Over the Easter weekend I visited Washington, DC for the first time as a tourist. Which was kind of interesting. I had only been to DC as a student studying in the capital for a semester, or lived there. And while I definitely played tourist so many times – and…
When I started my Photo of the Day challenge on Instagram, I really wasn’t sure how it was going to go, where it was going to take me, or even how long I was going to do it. One month? Two? Well now we’re nearly to the end of the…
If you’re in the North Texas area, then you know that we have been having such a great spell of spring-like weather (though of course, spring officially started Saturday night!) the latter part of this winter. And I have been making sure to get outdoors on the weekends – at…