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.
May 28, 2021
In this whole body experience, we work to release constraints, to expand through mindful stretches and steady movements, and to open space for possibility. Through mindful […]
May 19, 2021
This practice will help stretch you out from head to toe with a little emphasis on folding forward safely. Folding forward, when done correctly should feel […]
May 19, 2021
When the mind is thinking, what is happening in the body, and the breath? In this meditation, you work to settle your attention away from an […]
May 14, 2021
Karen guides you through a series of essential stretches to release tension and energize you. This is a thorough but simple way to help you feel […]
May 12, 2021
In many methods of meditation you are asked to drop an anchor (or reference point) to come back to again and again. In this meditation we […]
May 3, 2021
Our first meditation for the Challenge is an outdoor meditation. If you can, find a place outside to practice (but it can also work inside). This meditation is inspired […]
March 28, 2021
For those cranky places in your body that need to be released, this practice moves you through a series of mindful stretches and deep breathing, to […]
March 10, 2021
Working with a strap (or scarf or belt) we will open our tight shoulders, thighs and hamstrings in a short and sweet yoga practice.