Today is Friday of Spring Break week for my elves. While I adore my tweens to the moon and back, and I also think their friends are the bees knees, I am a little burnt out today. Our house has been filled with laughter and sounds and humans. I am desperate for time alone and […]
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Guardian Angel: Yamas
One week ago my elves had a snow day, I was home working and in a matter of moments I destroyed my Macbook. Oddly enough I even had a premonition that it would happen and yet still managed to watch it happen in real time. You see I was sitting down at the kitchen table […]
Coloring inside the lines: Yamas
The Eight Limbs of Patanjali begin with the Yamas, or the ethical guidelines for yogis. The Yamas are principals by which we should live our lives not only when we are doing a hot yoga class or handstand, but also when we interact with people and with ourselves. This ethical scaffolding will look similar to […]
Hawk’s Eye View
I returned home from a family trip to southern California a few days ago with a renewed perspective on my life and my yoga practice. The elves, my guy and I spent a day in the masses at Disneyland and then with totally different crowds of people in Santa Monica and Venice Beach. We stood […]
Choices and Power
Yesterday I was talking to my dear eight limb // life co-creator Liz V about her almost three year old. We were discussing how three year olds feel powerless but crave being in charge. I reminded her of a little thing that I used to do with the elves when they needed a boost of confidence and […]
loss, choices and permission
A little over a week ago my father in law died from complications of stage four stomach cancer. He had been diagnosed a few weeks to a month before so this turn of events was shocking for all of us. The four of us (my guy and the elves) had a planned trip for over […]