Mental flexibility is the ability to make a mental shift without remaining stuck in a particular mindset. From a mind-body perspective, the knees are…

One of the requests I’m most often given at the start of a yoga class is: Hamstrings. There are so many things in our daily life that can make our hamstrings tight…

Food plays a HUGE in our self care practices and our food choices can be one of the biggest factors that contributes to our sickness or health…

I have always been an avid reader. Every summer was filled with multiple trips to the library where I marveled at…

Even though we’re only officially starting the summer season today, many of us have been in summer mode since Memorial Day Weekend and you might already be experiencing some of the symptoms of summer burnout…

After last week’s bout with all the wildfire smoke in NYC, it got me thinking a lot about the role that our lungs play in our lives. There are the physical impacts on our health and our body's ability to function with ease and efficiency, but our lungs also have a direct connection to..

I personally LOVE travel. And for as much as I love travel I will be the first to admit, travel can be incredibly stressful. And travel, by nature, is incredibly ungrounding…

As I waited to go on stage in front of over a hundred people, I had a million thoughts running through my head, one of which was: remember, you chose to do this…

What does it mean for our bodies to heal and how would we provide the “right“ environment for healing? Studies have shown that our bodies…

As the great Anne Lamott says, “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” There is actually a science behind Anne Lamott’s catchy quote…

There is a lot of change in the air this week. You know what else is in the air? Pollen. So. Much. Pollen…

The other day I was thinking about feet. I was giving myself my bi-weekly pedicure (when you’re a yoga instructor, whose feet get seen all the time, you learn to keep them looking as nice as possible at all times)… 

Last week, one of my teachers mentioned the sense of “internalized pressure“ we can feel as we enter this first part of Spring. I hadn’t been noticing a lot of it in my own life, but of course, now that she had brought it into my awareness, I began noticing it more and more every day…

Spring always reminds me of the importance of balancing the masculine and feminine energies in our lives and how powerful this can be in helping us accomplish our goals and dreams from a place of efficiency and ease…

I am happy. Like “excited about the day, on a cellular level, people wonder what’s going on with me”, kind of happy…

Last week I made my annual trip to Arizona to visit my parents and get a break from the winter cold. The night before I was feeling super anxious and…

Anyone who’s been friends with me long enough knows my obsession with numbers. And most likely is also someone who texts me when…

When I was taking my yoga teacher training back in 2007, every year on Valentine’s Day my mentor would teach her annual heart-closing class…

If you’ve been around here long enough, you know that I LOVE my birthday. Actually, I love birthdays in general, so I love yours too…

And as someone who believes that love is the only way to live, a month focused on the topic is definitely something I’m on board with, but instead of just speaking from the poetic, yet esoteric place of “living from love instead of fear”, here is some of the actual science behind why…