Trust the Process
This Is the Practice
Here’s the thing: I am home a lot. I do carry the mental load of meals and laundry and grocery lists and summer camps and swim bags and school fees. I am the one folding laundry between Zoom calls and phone calls, and making dinner while mentally planning next month’s yoga theme.
Read MoreFlipping the Bird (with Lovingkindness?)
I did my best to stay grounded, keeping my hands on the steering wheel and attention on the road ahead while at the same time remained conscious of the close distance of the vehicle behind me. I even took a few steading breaths and told myself that maybe they’re just in a rush, maybe they’ve got somewhere to be, or someone to get to…
Read MoreWhat I’m Learning Through Listening, Loving, and the Practice of Letting Go
Lately, I’ve been feeling like two different versions of myself are taking turns behind the wheel of my life. There’s the Michelle who is fearless—driven, focused, determined to follow through…
Read MoreBalancing More Than the Body
Throughout the month, we explored how steadiness applies to the breath, to our thoughts, to our intentions, and to the way we consistently return to our practice—even (especially) when life gets full.
Read MoreThe Dance With the Tension of Life
The dancer’s pose—named after Nataraja, a form of Shiva, the cosmic dancer. In the story, Shiva dances the rhythm of creation and destruction, a divine movement so powerful that when his lifted foot touches the earth, the world as we know it dissolves. A potent symbol of transformation—and of the fragility and beauty of every moment.
Read MoreSteadiness Amidst the Swirling
In our yoga practice and in life, this principle, known as sthira in Sanskrit, reminds us that steadiness isn’t something we wait to feel before we begin. It’s something we cultivate as we move through the whirling.
Read MoreThe Breath, the Body, and the Breakthrough
I wasn’t even sure if I was going to share this. But the more I sat with it, the more I realized how much these personal events of fear, breathlessness, and of surrendering this past week, lives at the very heart yoga, of my yoga in practice.
Read MoreHealing Through Surrender
There’s a funny thing about surrender… it’s often the lesson we resist the most, yet it’s the one we need the most. Surrender is not something that comes easily to most of us, especially when life throws us challenges that we don’t feel ready for.
Read MoreWhat Are You Holding Onto?
If you’ve been practicing and following along with me, you know we’ve been working through heart-opening postures this month. But opening the heart isn’t just about deep backbends—it’s about letting go, trusting, softening the grip we so often hold on life.
Read MoreAt the Heart of Surrender
By embracing heart-opening and surrender, we create room for more love, more ease, and more trust in the unfolding of our lives.
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