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Heart To Heart Breathing

Heart to Heart Breathing Gently Hold hands with your child (or partner) and make soft eye contact. Right hand (giving) facing down into child’s left hand (receiving) and child’s right hand facing down into partners left hand. As you start to exhale you gently squeeze the child’s left hand with your right. Share with your child … Continue reading →

Yoga Therapy

Yoga Therapy is a healing modality provided by a certified yoga therapist who applies the principals of yoga to the individual. Yoga therapy is both an art and a science, used to enhance health and wellness at all levels of the person: physical, psychological, and spiritual. As a highly trained yoga therapist, Joy seeks to … Continue reading →

Gratitude Meditation

There is so much to be thankful for in every moment. It can be easy to forget how precious our lives are when we don’t take the time to practice gratefulness. Our primitive brain  wired to focus on fear, doubt and worry. It takes effort and awareness to choose to recognize the blessings and gifts that … Continue reading →

“MA” Yoga

My Yoga is so uniquely my own, just as your Yoga is so fabulously yours! Lately, I have been reflecting on what Yoga means to me. Especially as I feel my body responding to old injuries and traumas and how that’s playing out in my thoughts and emotions. Additionally, how the blessed role of being … Continue reading →

Three Part Breath

 “What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? ”                    ~ Mary Oliver   Three Part Breathing Practice: Even though the gift of breathing is an involuntary act, we can focus the way that we breathe. When we … Continue reading →

YES!

In my youth theatre classes we play a game called “Yes, Lets!” It’s a wonderful exercise in acceptance. The intent of the game is for the players to agree  with whatever the other player offers to the scene and move on from there in acceptance. As both a participant and an observer of this game, I witness the … Continue reading →

Self Love (Atma Prema)

The cultivation of Self-Love (Atma Prema) is a discipline. Translated, discipline means “to teach.” Perhaps when we were young we didn’t have any self-loving role models to teach us how to love ourselves in a healthy, wholesome way. Note to self,  that is okay. Those ‘role-models’ did what they did based on any number of given … Continue reading →

Winter Day

Namaste! The above gift is something i’m passing on from Cate Stillman , founder of YogaHealer. Please check out her work. She is a generous healer who cares about her Global community. If you are in need of a specific movement and breathing program, i’m here to guide you. Peace and Joy!

Being Peace

As i prepare for my upcoming class on Monday, Cultivating Peace in our Breath, as part of the “12 days of Giving” sponsored by Inhabit, i am reminded of the classical text of Pantajali’s Yoga Sutra where he imparts his teachings on the Klesha’s. A Klesha  can be translated as a painful mind state or affliction of the mind. From … Continue reading →