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What is a Teacher

Buddhist, Featured, inspiration, Personal, Teacher Training, YTT

This practice of Yoga has transformed life in many ways, and the most of which is to move with the breath, to allow life to flow. This year I listened to my own advice and took some time off of teaching, and gave myself permission to take time and rest. To not teach, or blog, or spend any time telling people where and what to move their bodies
Ive now spent more than half my life teaching yoga.
That is a lot of time to commit to something.

Lighting the Fire of Practice

Featured, inspiration, Teacher Training, Yoga

This past December, I attended the Centenary Celebrations for B.K.S. Iyengar in Pune, India. Although I’ve taken more than 7 trips to India, this was my first time to the Iyengar Institute, the heart of Iyengar Yoga. It…

Baci Ceremony – Calling the Spirits

Adventure Tours, Buddhist, Featured, inspiration, Myths & Legends, Prayer, Stories and Tales, Yoga travel

BACI ບາສີ Baci is an important ceremony in Lao culture, a ritual to celebrate important events and occasions, like births, marriages, monkhood, travel, or ill health and to honour guests. Baci can take place all year, any day…

Rest is the Story

Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasonal Medicine, Seasons, Uncategorized

ENTERING AUTUMN As we enter the Autumn season, the air becomes cool and crisp, and the leaves are starting to turn. Autumn brings the harvest of crops, shorter days and preparation for winter. It is a time of ripening, withering, and completion.…

100-Hr Certification – Art & Science of Restorative Yoga

Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Teacher Training, Workshops & Intensives, YB LAB, YTT

Art & Science of Restorative Yoga Better health and wellbeing in older age is critical to us personally, and as a society. World demographics have changed and we will soon have more older people than children, which will…

The Power of Olive Oil

Featured, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasonal Medicine, Seasons

Mediterranean Diet and Oil We have heard the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, and enjoyed the wonderful flavor of a good olive oil. Studies associate olive oil intake with a decreased risk of heart disease, as it supports…

Seasonal Detox and Cleanser

Chinese, Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Personal, Seasonal Living, Seasonal Medicine, Seasons

Since childhood, my family has used herbal elixirs and tonics to help heal the body and mind, and I remember my beloved Grandmother making strong ginger root tea for menstrual cramps or snow fungus and goji berries for…

Balancing a Yin Yang Sheep

Chinese, Featured, Seasonal Living, Seasons

Wishing you continued happiness in this Chinese New Year of the Goat-Sheep! We have welcomed the Yin Wood Sheep year in 2015.  It is also called Year of the Goat or Ram in the Chinese Astrology calendar. Is…

Heart Speak

Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Language

Crossing Multi Culti Bridges If you have spent any time with Asian people, you may notice the world of difference in the way we think, act and treat each other than in the West. As someone who is…

The Power of Rest – Restorative Yoga as Treatment

Chinese Medicine, Featured, Teacher Training, Yoga, YTT

Yoga as Medicine There is growing evidence that Yoga is an effective rehabilitation tool. Medical institutions and leading health organisations have tested the efficacy of Yoga in clinical trials for cancer treatment and rehabilitation, heart disease, PTSD, metabolic…