Sep 3, 2020Leaving Diet CultureI’m (finally?!) coming to a clearer understanding of something I’ve long suspected: dieting (or thinking my body needs to be smaller) is a bullshit way to live. We do live in a toxic diet culture. We’re so steeped in it that even those of us who “know better” and think…Anti Diet6 min readAnti Diet6 min read
Aug 21, 2020Heed the CallHeed the call. Do the thing. Don’t hold back. Before I took my first yoga teacher training, I was already in love with yoga, with the changes it brought to my life. It was healing to my body, cracked open my heart, and the Tantric philosophy dug the hole a…Resilience3 min readResilience3 min read
Jun 9, 2020How to Go Back to Work on Social Media as an Anti-RacistThis morning I was participating in a workshop about racism, unpacking the language commonly used in racial justice that can immediately trigger turn off feel divisive to white people. Taught by Hitomi Mockett @sweetradiantlife — it was a lovely, useful workshop (she has another one coming up on the 18th). …Anti Racist2 min readAnti Racist2 min read
May 22, 2020Shaping the LensI went out on that trip to feel something. To come back and share it To prove, “I live!” Share the story of the dogs who chased us Baying and baring teeth Never looking, pedaling faster Til they dropped back in defeat That story told on repeat So that I could live it again —…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Apr 13, 2020My MatNoah has a class today that looks so good, and I have yet to be on the mat with him this quarantine. But after a night of lazy raining, the sun is shining through swiss cheese holes in the dark blue-gray clouds landing like a spotlight on my patio, beckoning…Yoga3 min readYoga3 min read
Mar 31, 2020How To Get Better At “Quarantivity”All of life feels like a practice now. The position of my hand on the mat or the turn of my attention all can be imbued with purpose. The reason I do it — the purpose for the action, movement, conversation, what I drink, when I wake up, what…Quarantine2 min readQuarantine2 min read
Feb 26, 2020What I’ve learned from food addiction.My earliest memory of using food for something other than a solution to hunger was when I was somewhere around 7 years old. I remember sneaking a slice of Wonder bread out of the fridge while my Mom was in the backyard and slathering it with Hershey’s syrup, swiftly shoveling…Food Addiction3 min readFood Addiction3 min read
Jan 30, 2020Who’s telling your story now?The hill rose up and out beyond me for such a stretch that I knew not to gauge the distance, but instead to heed the advice of our Warm Showers host and “keep your head down, keep pedaling.” We are in the midst of a 40-day cycling trip through British…Mantra2 min readMantra2 min read
Dec 12, 2019Anger In YogaI had a yoga student ask me recently if it was normal to feel anger during a yoga class. She said that she used to feel anger towards things like the teacher or the grating playlist but now she feels anger just come up — seemingly out of nowhere. I…Yoga4 min readYoga4 min read
Oct 15, 2019Your Sweet UnravelingI was sitting on a Zoom call with 35 other spiritual butterflies and wellness experts when a woman came over the audio and shared that she was losing her shit. A divorce was looming and she needed help. When she shared the bare threads of her experience and the leader…Life Lessons4 min readLife Lessons4 min read