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The holiday season can be a source of joy or anxiety. Sometimes while everyone around us is celebrating, we find it hard to join in. Why don't we take a look at the Holidays Symbols? It could because the days are shorter and the lack of sunlight makes you feel depressed. Perhaps you feel the loss of those no longer with you when others celebrate with loved ones. Maybe you’re discouraged with the commercialism that...

My yoga students struggle with sleep. I hear them exclaim “I had to stay up late to work,” or “I woke up in the middle of the night stressed about my job.”  Wouldn’t it be better to get a good night sleep and be more productive the next day? Tired and grumpy employees make mistakes. Calm and focused people get the job done. Research validates the fact that better sleep equals more productivity. A 2015 Harvard study affirmed the...

I need movement to be my true self and I was struggling with breath/body practice. Days would go by and I was doing very little movement. It was time for some big changes. I’ve ditched my meds and am now working at my new “desk.”  Watch me strut and talk shop on my first ever Yoga Health Coaching Vlog. You will be shocked at how easy it was for me to create me my very...

In my position as Head of Admissions here at Yogahealer, I talk to potential Yoga Health Coaches every day. Almost everyone I talk to wants to become a Yoga Health Coach. But only about 40% of the people I talk to enroll. So what happens to the others? “I just can’t afford it.” “There’s no way I can afford it.” “The reality is, I don’t have the money.” Every time I hear one of of those phrases,...

Our nation is in turmoil. Winter is coming. The holidays are upon us. You Are Enough. This year I’ll gather my concerns and hopes, my misgivings and gratitudes, at tables belonging to new friends, who are distant from my Michigan family. I can picture tables prepared by all the mothers in my life, pie-crust leaf shapes topping baked apples and pumpkin fillings and the hub-bub of table-setting and gathering guests, waiting, wine in hand, as a few...

Have you heard the saying that, “nothing good ever happens after midnight?” Probably it was something your parents told you to prevent premarital sex, underage drinking or just general youthful tomfoolery. But for me it’s been almost uniformly true.   [caption id="attachment_16629" align="alignright" width="278"] I’m the one in purple. I don’t know who that other girl is.[/caption] Okay, sure, as a twenty-something working for nightclubs in South Beach in the 90’s, I did have a lot of fun...