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I started my job hunt a few months before college graduation. Being the eager, soon-to-be college grad (actually, I was probably more like the panicked grad, as I had student loans to pay back, rent, and other bills) that I was, I sent out hundreds of resumes. Most of the responses were the same —… Continue reading Permission To Be Bad

There was a time when I cared quite a bit about which style of yoga I practiced because the style of yoga I practiced defined the practice of yoga for me. I had such a rigid idea of what yoga was back then. It was this not that; it looked like this, not that; it… Continue reading The Style is No Style

I’m in a bit of a Tofurkey coma (I think I’m on protein overload) but I just couldn’t let this day pass without a little blogging. This morning I combined my favorite Thanksgiving Day tradition — a walk in the woods — with another favorite daily activity of mine — yoga. It was a warm,… Continue reading Taken

Happy holiday season everyone! Gee, some deep breathing, bending and stretching and BAMMO — time fast forwards to holiday gift guide time once again. Here are the things that have caught my fancy this past year. Throughout the year I get a lot of pitches for inclusion into the gift guide but the joy of… Continue reading The Everything Yoga Blog Holiday Gift Guide

“…I have been running so sweaty my whole lifeUrgent for a finish lineAnd I have been missing the rapture this whole time of being forever incomplete Ever unfoldingEver expandingEver adventurousAnd torturousAnd never done…” –Excerpted from Alanis Morissette’s Incomplete When I was new to the practice of yoga, I watched people in class executing more advanced… Continue reading The Joy of Never Getting There

When I first heard the adage, “How you do one thing is how you do everything,” I was somewhat appalled. I wasn’t buying it. But it stuck in my head, rattled around and I realized that it’s true. I saw it from a yoga perspective — how I was on the mat was a direct… Continue reading Hiding Out on the Mat

“Poetry has a wild invitation to it — an invitation to a feast, to your life as a nourishing repast…Poetry reminds you that you’re a sacred frontier of experience. Only you can occupy that corner of the universe.” –David Whyte Years ago, I listened to the Clear Mind Wild Heart audio from one of my… Continue reading Poetry and Your Yoga Practice

I practiced yoga for years before I even picked up a translation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. After doing so, I became hooked and went on to study the sutras more in-depth. This foundational text, while is best to study with a teacher (or join a sutra discussion group), is so full of wisdom and offers… Continue reading The Beauty and the Depth of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali