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Lean into your back body > find your breath and the strength to hold it
 today @ 430 w LVM
xo 

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Birthdays & All Things SF + + +

Wow, I just got back from such a great trip to SF.  Only my 2nd time there and I can’t believe that city is real.  I was lucky to spend 5 days w my rockstar friend Holly Munoz (literally and figuratively) camping next to the ocean, soaking in mineral baths, yoga, dreaming, walking, & kicking it all off by celebrating my birthday with Linda Wu and Laura McCabe and Co.  An effing fantastic trip.  Makes me feel lucky to know such good people and to get to spend time w them in such a lovely place.  The puja in the top is from a Burmese restaurant they treated me to on my BDay and I would have to say has to be the puja of all pujas…a sight to behold and a nice find on that day.  Not to mention the food was incredible.  Green tea salad, who knew?  The ranunculus was a gift and totally made my day…I love ranunculus and how sweet to get a bouquet of flowers on your first day of vacation.  We then went camping and as you can tell by the pics it was fairyland beautiful.  The ocean was feet away.  The sweet little cabin is on the campground and overlooks the ocean.  I got to make a new friend with the introduction to Holly’s friend Mimi.  I love meeting new people.  The 3 of us then headed north about 2 hours and soaked in mineral baths built in 1860.  This is all in the surrounding area of SF.  I was also lucky enough to visit Tiny Telephone which is the studio where Holly recorded her beautiful & soon to be released album “Maps & Lists” w John Vanderslice.  It’s a beautiful space, humble & open & full of possibilities…it felt like Yoga Garden in that way.  A memorable trip for so many reasons.  And now I’m happy to be home @ YOGA Garden thinking about it all as I handstand & back bend & water & sweep.

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Gorgeous space, gorgeous people & pretty poses.  Good company to keep as we move from the elemental earthy boundaries of a long damn winter into the watery, nurturing hands of SPRING.  You can almost smell the lilacs. . . . 


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* * The ART of ASANA * *

Sitting at my desk with high-lighter in hand and stapler near by happily organizing yoga poses into various lists.  I’m getting organized for The Art of Asana portion of LISTEN to GROW this weekend and could not be happier.  The first 2 weekends have gone swimmingly, diving in deep but moving through the material with relative ease.  If you care to jump in feel free, people who could not sign up for the entire workshop are showing interest in individual weekends.  $185/per workshop….you can get the skinny here:

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>>>> More & More LIGHT Everyday

You can tell by the chit-chat, there’s more & more light to practice in everyday.  It just makes everything easier and more fun, like hanging out in the studio with a good group of friends.  A lucky lady bird am I to have such a great group to soak it up with.
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MUSEUM DAY!



We are a lucky lot to have so much amazing art in our fine city.  I spent the afternoon at the Walker and MIA w my friend and fellow yogini Rachel Hiltsey.  A great escape on these the coldest of cold days.  Nothing like great art in a beautiful building to warm us up through the eyes.  Plus there were brightly colored letters painted on a wall.
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* * * GREEN = GROWTH . . .

Thank god for gardens.  Seriously.  It makes me so happy to get to have an indoor garden full of succulents for the duration of such a cold winter in our beautiful studio.  Green equals growth…a good reminder of what’s beneath the layers of ice and snow.  And only weeks away but who’s counting.  <3

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This is one of my favorite playlists to date and I’m not just saying that.  It’s got a nice even flow from beginning to end with a little bit of a kick in the middle.   A sweet little soundtrack as a lullaby for a long and cold winter.  
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> > > > > > > Time For a Change /// Winter Solstice Class


 + Start a New Story + 


Everyone has a story.  Everyone wants to tell their story.  And Everyone’s story is worth being told.

As we live through each season we move forward through cycles, change and choice. Within us and all around us.  On the solstice we move from the time of Ether to Earth.  Each of the seasons is symbolized by one of the 5 elements: Winter = Earth, Spring = Water, Summer = Fire and Fall = Air.  The element of Ether is symbolized by the time between Halloween and the Solstice.  The element of ether is symbolic of our intuition, our ability to close our eyes and sit still.  It is a place of creativity before boundaries, judgment, insecurity and this freedom is what ignites the creative spark at our core. It’s where the story begins. It gives us a light in the dark, our word for the year, an idea on how we would like to tell our story for a new year.  

But in order for our word, dream, desire to manifest it has to become physical, like a seed.  It has to take shape, to have a place to root into and grow.  The element of earth is symbolic of the body.  As we move from ether to earth we start to manifest our idea physically.  We begin to make choices about the way we breathe, move and rest to build a body that reflects where we are now and what direction we want to go.  Our bodies literally take the shape of our hearts and minds, each pose a reflection of our awareness as we weave and unwind our narrative of experience.

This Thursday night we will move from Ether to Earth.  We will move from one season to the next and into a new year.  We will step into a new cycle of change and choice   and create the story of a new season in our lives with us as we go.


“At the end of the day, your life is not the sum total of the       things that happened to you, but how you told the story.” 

– Douglas Brooks 

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