I used to not be much of a New Year resolution person. I liked to think of birthdays as a great start to setting new goals for the year ahead (based around one’s next cycle around the sun vs. the turn of a calendar page). And I’m still not a…
There are some themes over the last year that I wanted to revisit in a 2021 wrap-up post. To start, I wrote last month about my gratitude for the community I’ve found at The Mat, and I suspect is found by many with their yoga studios. While I talked about…
Setting New Year goals, as I’ve done in the past, or resolutions may look a bit different with the uncertainty still pervasive at the start of the year. For example, travel. In years past I usually made a goal to visit one new country. Last year, that didn’t happen as…
It’s January, the start of a new year and when many people make new goals for what they would like to achieve in the upcoming twelve months. It is a great time to reflect on goals – and the winter in general seems like a good time to turn inward.…
Each month I look forward to the theme The Mat yoga studio chooses in its monthly newsletter and why a teacher may have chosen that particular theme. I also look forward over the weeks to see how different teachers may incorporate that theme in their classes. The theme for December was finding…
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…