Yoga & The Nervous System
We are training the body to move from a state of stress to a state of relaxation more quickly, with more ease, and with less collateral damage to the body and its systems.
How to Cultivate a Healing Alliance with Your Body
The simple truth is: the way we speak to our body’s directly impacts how it feels - and more importantly - how it heals
Movement as a {Self}-love Language
The more intentional we are about listening and creating a relationship with our body’s, the more we’re able to use movement as a means to heal, optimize our health, and ultimately deepen our relationship with self.
Unhappy in the Pursuit of Happiness
The amusing paradox is - the sooner we abandon our pursuit of happiness, the sooner we’ll arrive at the destination we’re so painstakingly in pursuit of.
Three Affirmations to Harness Your Personal Power
True personal power lies in our grace. In our empathy. In our vulnerability. In our willingness to connect. True personal power is love. I invite you to reflect on the following three affirmations to cultivate your own energy of personal power within you.
How You Can Use Your Breath to Transform
We’ve all been there. Those moments when we feel stressed about one thing or another and … we snap. An effective first step in approaching transformation at those cross sections of adversity is accepting the old sage advice - take a deep breath.
Cultivating Gratitude for Growth
Take a moment to consider how far you’ve come, how much you’ve learned, how much you’ve you overcome, and how much you’ve grown in the last year/ chapter of your life. Then think about how every experience [both joyful and painful] - every single moment - has conspired to create this version of you.
Working Out vs. Moving In
I can honestly say I have experienced so much freedom, peace and increased physical strength from changing my perspective and relationship with “exercise”. I no longer work out, but move in.
Finding Your Tribe
The longer this thought played on repeat, the more that became the reality I was experiencing. More and more every day, I felt farther and farther away from people. They were the most minuscule steps, but one day it truly amounted to a distance I was scared to acknowledge. The most wild part - in an effort to be the only person I needed, I’d never felt farther away from myself.
Choosing Yourself
Choosing yourself simply means you stop pretending. You stop pretending that things are ok with you that aren’t ok with you. You stop trying to be the “chill girl”, the “funny girl”, the “go with the flow girl”, the “girl that’s down for whatever”. Not because you aren’t those things, but because those parts of you need no trying…
The Art of The Up Level
As you commit to and embark on the journey of truly knowing, loving, and owning every part of who you are, there is a dance you will inevitably enter into with the Universe. The give and take, the ebb and flow, the grasp and surrender. Trust me, I know this process - doing the work - isn’t a walk in the park. It means feelings of uncertainty. It means questioning. It means doubting. Until, eventually, you’ve built your trust muscle strong enough to feel secure in the fact that the universe is working FOR you - even when it doesn’t look the way you planned and even when it doesn’t feel like that’s the case.
Relinquishing Resistance
Resistance is something we all come face to face with - whether it be in relationships, in creative pursuits, or in business endeavors. Resistance is that voice in your head that says ‘I’ll just do that later’ or ‘you know, I’m obviously not meant to do that at this moment… I don’t want to force it’. And while yes, there is great power and healing in listening to those cues …
Go Play
Playing is like the toll road for our highest selves - the easiest way to access the uninhibited, pure, curious essence at the core of all of us. When did we get too old for play dates anyways? For setting time aside to be silly, to be creative, to explore the depths of our imaginations? Why do “adulting” and playing have to be mutually exclusive?
Squash Sunday Scaries
Here are a few reframes and simple self love shifts to incorporate throughout the week to stop living for the weekend and start looking forward to every day.