Teaching yoga online has been an opportunity to learn and grow. My style of teaching is not demo centered. I prefer not to do the whole class in front of a camera, but to observe my students so that I might be truly present with them, hold space for them, and guide them. I want …
Not reacting, but assessing a situation and then… making a measured response. Or choosing not to respond at all. We don’t need to take the bait. We don’t need to attend every argument we are invited to. We don’t need to finish everything we started if it no longer resonates with our soul’s intention. We …
Tues: Gentle Flow 4PM EST Thursday: Full-Soul-Ahead, prayer infused Vinyasa (more vigorous) 9:30AM EST Stay tuned for info on my Flow Writer series coming up in July! Register here.
“And now I’m serving time for mistakes made by another, in another life time. How long til’ my soul gets it right?” -Galileo, Indigo Girls The theme this week at Sattva Wisdom Center is Karma. And boy is it a loaded one! Diving into it there are so many directions one could take, but I …
In 2016, I was rear ended when I stopped for a pedestrian at a crosswalk. The car behind me didn’t break. My car was totaled. My neck injured. It’s been a long road. While lucky I wasn’t more severely injured, the accident did result in me being in a lot of pain, for a long …
The photo above is of a group of writers whom I adore in Cleveland, Ohio. We would get together once a month and read what we had written from a prompt assigned the month prior. The group was modeled after another local writing group that had been together for over a dozen years. Prior …
The other night there was a worldwide meditation. People from all over the globe visualized an end to the corona virus. It was so late on the east coast, I had a hard time staying awake, but I did it. The teens were pulled from their bedrooms, and our whole family flopped on the sectional …
This week’s theme at Sattva Wisdom Center is trust. Is there someone in your life you trust? Someone that loves you no matter what? Someone you can lean on and feel supported by even at your most ugly, most vulnerable? If you don’t have that now, is there someone you’ve ever had that with? Someone …
I had a conversation with sorrow today. She’d been taking up so much space, so heavy, all around. Asked her what she wanted me to know. First, she said, not with words but with energy, “You’re not the only one with sorrow.” She didn’t say it to reprimand, just acknowledging. This breath in. This …
One of my yoga students, a retiree, told me she fell last week while out on a walk. She said she lay there on the ground, upset and confused. She didn’t know if she’d tripped or if she’d fainted. Her phone had fallen out of her reach. She wanted to call her husband for help, …
Michelle O'Neil,Writer 