There is a question that I’ve been asked a dozen times - by fellow business-owners, teachers, mentors, coaches - a question that I have...

A few months before my scoliosis surgery, I asked my doctor a question: “How restricted will my movement be, once my spine is fused?” I...

A few years ago, I learned that June is Scoliosis Awareness Month. I learned this only because one of my friends told me that they had...

So what should you do when you’re a yoga teacher and you have a crush on one of your students? Like with most things, it depends...

Nine years ago, I attended a talk as part of a “Portland Young Professionals” series. I don’t remember the name of the woman who gave it...

I remember our teacher saying 1 thing very clearly: “Don’t date your yoga students.” I remember being annoyed at how overly simplified...

It's been nearly three months since I declared myself mostly self-employed. Since then, I have spent quite a bit of time asking myself...

A few years ago, I made a spreadsheet that changed my life. The spreadsheet was my “financial overview,” outlining the various ways I...

Last week, I led my first workshop on the finances of being a yoga teacher. I was so fired up to lead this workshop, and as soon as the...

When I took my first yoga teacher training, we did not talk about money. When I took my second, and then my third, and my fourth, and...

4 key actions for Yoga with Scoliosis & Spinal Fusion: Length, strength, side-bends, and twists!

My favorite was when he said that he felt “a wave” of love, of affection, of connection surging toward the surface; I knew what he meant.

Speaking up is easy when I’m confident. But when I sense that speaking up is going to inspire disappointment in others, it is painful.

“Can we all agree that we are yoga teachers because we’re all a little crazy? That we, in a sense, have to teach?” We all laughed, too hard.

The beauty of vinyasa - its movement - can become its greatest challenge, and even its greatest danger. Sometimes, we must slow down.

Sometimes I wonder if my obsessive tendencies are a response to my father’s death: I couldn’t control that, but what *can* I control?

This past June, one of my 10th grade English students gave her final presentation on the similarities between Siddhartha’s journey in...

Both yoga and improv are about listening, and being present; both are about releasing expectations, accepting offers, and seeing possibility

Although I am skilled in helping others relax, I often find it difficult to apply these skills to myself. But when it rains, I can.

When we stop seeing ourselves as flawed, broken, imperfect people, we can start to treat ourselves with the love and respect we deserve.