Embrace the Power of Summer: As August has begun, I wanted to take a moment to wonder and embrace the beauty of summer. Summer for me has always been the year’s version of a giant hug. It is Mother Nature’s way of thanking everyone for all of their hard work and perseverance in the more […]
I’ve talked about this before, but I can not stress enough the power in journalling. Whether you use a laptop, book and pen, or become completely untraditional and use art as your journal: just taking a minute to be with your thoughts is a monumental experience. Over the last few weeks, I’ve gone through a
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Sometimes you just need a different perspective. I firmly believe that a part of your regular yoga practice, should involve inversions. Inversions from the most basic: legs up the wall, downward dog and forward fold to slowly allowing your body to play in more challenging poses like headstand and plough. I can remember when I
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The Music of Yoga: According to archaeologists, we have been enjoying music in some form for at least 50,000 years. Music is used as a form of expression, an emotional outlet and in celebrations. It is a way of connecting communities or individual contemplation. It can energize or soothe. It’s dynamic. When selecting the music
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It has been a very long winter, but the sun is finally shining. For some of you the grass is peeking through the winter blanket and their may be even a few flowers blooming. Spring is finally, here. Winter is a time for holding things in; in a sense both our mind and bodies
Launch into Spring As the beginning of April approaches, the arrival of spring and warm weather is close. For some of us, it has been an extremely long, extremely cold and harsh season. And with that type of a season, our body and mind has the tendency to retain unwanted stress and pressure. Winter is
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Get out your legwarmers, scrunchies and leopard print: it’s time to voga! A dynamic combination of yoga and voguing, this new fitness trend is taking London by storm. Developed by Juliet Murrell, set designer and certified yoga instructor, London, England, voga was inspired by her vision to create an energetic style of yoga. The class
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Squeeze in some time for Oxygen Every yoga class is punctuated with frequent reminders to breathe, not just the shortened breaths that often becomes a normal part of our day but deep, oxygenating breaths. Prana, breath, in Sanskrit, literally means life. But why is deep breathing so critical? Yoga teachers typically instruct their students to
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In my life, I have had the pleasure of spending time with both adults and children where Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder is part of their lives. I’ve been amazed how their mind can become entranced with watching the snow fall to taking apart (and putting together) a calculator. I’ve also seen their distress when
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As I peer outside my window, I’m amazed by the world of white outdoors. Living in Barrie, Ontario, my winter is often white. But this year there are just a few more snowflakes than usual. The snow banks tower of the cars and the sidewalks and roads have a perpetual sprinkle of snow. One of
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