It’s August. Which means at the end of this month this year, like so many others, I’m going back to school. After a fashion. I’ll go back to my 200-hour teacher training studio, though with a summer full of classes and study groups, it’s not like I ever left. My…
This summer I’m participating in my first bingo card challenge at The Mat Yoga Studio. The studio hosts different challenges periodically over the course of the year, and while they are a great way to take more classes – if that happens to be a goal – there are even more…
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…