I’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…
Heed 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…
This 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).
…
I 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 —…
Noah 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…
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…
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…
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…
I 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…
I 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…
Dynamic group leader in transforming health, habits, and the way we connect. www.colleenhieber.com
