Journal
Here you'll find writing on mindfulness, neuroscience, mental health, physical wellbeing, and yoga.
These topics often overlap: attention, behaviour and embodiment are all part of the same ecosystem of experience, and the aim here is to explore those connections in a thoughtful and practical way. Some posts draw from research, others from lived experience and teaching. The intention is to share ideas that are useful, considered, and occasionally a bit different from what is typically said.
August 6, 2020
Your shoulders, the most mobile joints in your body, but those long days in front of a computer tapping away can leave your shoulders feeling anything […]
July 31, 2020
This practice meets your whole body, with a special focus on opening the tightness in your hips. When our hips are stable and open, we can […]
July 27, 2020
Open your hips, stretch out tightness held in your chest and between your ribs, warm your body from the core out to your skin, breath deeper […]
July 23, 2020
In this series, we will weave postures through rhythmic movements and mindful postures; grounding our experience in the body, and circulating energy from the power of […]
July 23, 2020
Thoughts are like threads, coming into consciousness as if they are discreet “things”. Our mind seeks to weave them together, to make sense of our experience, […]
July 23, 2020
Move with powerful grace towards Lord of Dance Pose, natarajasana, a posture that stirs latent energy in a culmination of refinement and balance.
July 7, 2020
Breathing, simple right? Well, maybe, but perhaps there’s more intelligence you can bring to your practice by revisiting the fundamentals of this process. Move slowly and […]
July 1, 2020
This situation is permeable, it’s being transformed even by the breath. Limits and habits soften, the compliments of grounded sitting bones and floating skull give space […]
July 1, 2020
One of the most restful experiences in meditation comes when we notice, by contrast to our typical experience in the day, that we don’t need to […]
June 30, 2020
Nurture each cell of your body in this head to toe, inside to out practice. In awakening our body to movement, and steadiness the metronome of […]
June 26, 2020
Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF)……. Now that’s a mouthful! Fortunately you don’t have to say it 10 times fast to receive the benefits of this type of […]
June 22, 2020
This warming core flow is sprinkled with opportunities to play with hops and kicks towards handstand. We prepare by waking up connections between our limbs and […]
June 18, 2020
When we make the space of awareness bigger, noticing things close and far with non-judgment, the contents of consciousness don’t rattle against the walls, but have […]
June 15, 2020
If lying down or being on your hands and knees just doesn’t work for your body then this is the class for you. A practice that […]
June 12, 2020
In meditation, we must get comfortable with the practicing of starting over, letting go whatever our mind has picked up, and remembering presence. In this guided […]
June 11, 2020
A short and sweet movement class to open your joints, deepen your breath and focus your mind. Some lunging, twisting, backbends, and a touch of arm […]
June 10, 2020
A steady-paced unifying practice for your whole body. We start by setting a foundation with breath-guided movements; then work towards focused, alignment-based postures to leave you […]
June 8, 2020
This strong and steady class will help mobilize your spine, stretch open your chest, and stabilize your back and core through a creative series of twists.
May 28, 2020
In this invigorating class, we use a wall to explore deep variations of familiar postures. While providing stability and resistance, the wall challenges us to strengthen and mobilize our back-body, including the hamstrings, glutes and back muscles. We will also use the wall as a way to access our deep core muscles, and finish off the class with an inversion.
May 27, 2020
A short flow sequence to get into hips and hamstrings and flow with the cyclical nature of the moon. Includes Half Moon Pose. A great warm-up […]