Unconditionally Yoga

This month we are chanting to two deities, Durga and Kali. Here is their story... Durga is mother earth, but she is not what one might...

Don't we all have times in our lives when it feels like we are blocked at every turn? Those times when you feel like you can't seem to...

Here is some clarification on my last blog post. After some feedback and discussion there are a couple things I should explain more. ...

I asked people I knew if there was a preference for a mantra or even a theme for a mantra for January that was calling them. I had one...

Each month in a few of the groups I am in, I lead japa meditation at the beginning of our meetings. We pick a mantra for to do the...

The fifth anniversary of may brain hemorrhage came and went quietly. We were on holidays on the boat in Idaho. No celebration. Quiet...

Woah, so it has been a hot minute since I paid some attention to this. In fact I almost deleted the whole site a few weeks ago. Still...

Said my husband to me when I signed up for the "Winter Warriors Challenge" or rather a friend gifted me an entry and I went along with it....

Someone I know asked me to help them stop pervasive thoughts, and how I did that, or changed the story I told myself. I said I would...

For the last two years I have been part of an online community hosted by a friend and yoga teacher here in Cochrane about Ayurveda, which...

Today is the fourth anniversary of my brain hemorrhage. They told me that I would see the most healing in the first year, and I am not...

My husband and I just returned from a road trip to South Dakota to visit the Black Hills. It was our first long road trip for me, I was...

The prompt for this week's work in the yamas and niyamas is to do one thing daily that you don't normally do. To face fears. To live...

Can we talk about anger? When I was at my yoga teacher training, we were there over a full moon . On the night of the full moon we went...

This is a post that has been hanging around in the back of my head for awhile, and our word in our yoga philosophy group this week is...

Dear Teagan, It was 18 years yesterday and you passed through our lives quietly. Although I am sad I never got to see the human you...

So here's a story about me. When I was about 3 we lived on a cul-de-dac and all the other kids on the street at first were boys. ...

Discussion of purusa from yoga philosophy

When I last wrote I was talking about now and auspicious beginnings. Go back and read it if you haven't or you forgot. I'll wait. It...

The first line of the yoga sutras, the first text in which the principals of yoga were written down from the oral history, is "Now, the...