10 Books for 2022
Recommendations from Jean & Rob It’s always helps to have some book recommendation. Whether you want to dive deep into spiritual practice or simply embrace reading for pleasure. This list is for you. Self-Compassion: The …
Trusting in life
As 2021 comes to an end it has been a big year of learning and growing in our household. The last two years have been so unexpected personally and professionally that a great deal of …
Getting Steady Isn’t Sexy
Yoga has become very much about the physicality of our practice – I wrote about that here for Wisdom Yoga Institute. There is a lot of sexy in the selling of yoga. But what might …
Healing is Boring
I think healing has been glamourized. We have all become enamored by the fancifulness that surrounds healing. Healing seems esoteric, grandiose. It has been so deeply interwoven with the consumptive wellness culture that you can …
10 Lessons to Love Life
Life can be tricky and troubling and sometimes we feel ungrounded and lost. Sometimes when this happens, I write a list of reminders to myself and I thought you would like to read my most …
Boundaries: Why and How?
The year I turned forty, I was sick all the time. I had multiple rounds of antibiotics for chronic sinusitis and tonsillitis. It took me a little while to accept that I was exhausted. I …
Restorative Yoga at Home: Theory & Practice
(Join me for a Spring Flourish Mini Retreat Saturday September 7th with Restorative Yoga!) Last year we (re)introduced a restorative yoga practice to our schedule at Yoga Space each Friday at 5:30 called Freedom Fridays …
Bring Ritual Into Your day
Each day has its own ebb and flow, and there is no set plan that guarantees us inner peace and tranquillity. But for when things get tough emotionally and mentally the ritual or rhythms that …
Pranayama: The Art of Breathing
Breath is part of our daily life; indeed it is part of what defines our existence, the ability to breathe. Our relationship to air is essential to understanding our beginnings and end. Our first breath …
More Love, Less Hate
More love, less hate. I have been feeling a little unsteady these past few days. Partly it is the need for some rest, which I have been taking. But I realised it is not just …