Ultimate Śakti Mantra

Mantra has been a vital part of my spiritual journey since I really started diving into the practice of yoga. The power mantra possess to calm and focus the mind as well as being a partner in manifesting your world is stunning. Śakti (generally written as shakti) mantras in pa...

Manifesting and chakras are both common topics in the yoga world. Today we are going to look at manifesting with the chakra system! Chakras are energy centers in your body aligned from the base of the spine to the top of your head. We will be looking at the seven primary chakras. Understanding the c...

Shakti (Sanskrit transliteration is Śakti) is the divine feminine energy that pervades our world. It is creativity, power, and matter. Everything on this earth is made up of shakti energy. It’s all shakti, patterns and patterns of shakti.  Activating your shakti is a way to tap into the oneness and ...

It is that time of year again when the transitions of late summer move into fall.  Many of us feel this as “back to school” time. Whether you have children or not we all feel this energetic and physical shift in the air.  Something changes. Your yoga class is a little more full. The roads are busier...

Yoga has been a part of my life since I was 20 – a young college woman traveling the world looking for balance and health. That’s when I picked up my first yoga book and started to practice the breathing and physical practices.  A few years later I discovered the philosophy behind it all and realize...

I’ve had a couple interesting conversations recently about the fact that we don’t have mirrors within the practice space at my yoga studio.  To me it seems quite clear why we don’t have them. And yet, through my conversations I realize that we are a bit of an aberration for yoga studios in these par...

As a woman, I know how busy life can be.  What I didn’t realize fully before I became a mom is how much more life comes with children.  You are living your “normal” life and now you have a little person there who relies on you as their source of security, entertainment, and livelihood.  Life is full...

If you are like most people you’ve heard about the benefits of meditation and have thought about trying it.  But, for some reason you haven’t been able to make a consistent practice out of it. I was there when I first started meditating.  You are not alone. There are many myths about meditation that...

In preparation for this blog post, I chanted Oṁ 2,000 times with my breath on a recent hike. I wanted to connect to the essence that is always there even more deeply.  Today let’s look at the four parts of Om and how they relate to our lives and our spiritual practices.

If you’ve been practicing yo...

Yoga is an inside job.  Your experience of the world is yours and yours alone.  Every time you practice an āsana, it is up to you to go as far as is right, to notice the thoughts in your mind about the pose or to breathe fully or not.  As we progress down the inner yogic path we soon start to learn ...