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My stomach rolled with anxiousness and excitement, like a little girl getting to pick her first pony. Stacey lead me to the barn where half a dozen stunning rescue horses awaited their call to duty. I wanted to work with all of the horses; each seemed to share something unique and deeply appealing. However, it was Halo that captured me and drew me in. Her crisp, sea-blue eyes, braided mane and black and white prints were breathtaking. Her beauty was…
When I was about 15 years old, I had just moved from Montana to the Tempe area and I was doing some deep soul searching. I was finding ways of connecting to a place of peace within myself and learning how tame the monsters in my complicated, teenage mind. One day while walking around Kiwanis park, I stumbled, literally, upon a beautiful, antique looking, gold leafed Buddhist meditation book….which, years later, I intentionally left at the same park, hoping it…
A Lizard in my Pants: Reptilian Reflections I was teaching Thursday night restorative, a class that has built its self beautifully on the foundation of doing very little and experiencing profound shifts in health and mindfulness from simple asana, dedicated intention and healing space. Though our attention is typically quick to move within and reconnect to our sacred wholeness, our class was otherwise engaged in the unexpected arrival of a tiny gecko who had claimed his spot in a crest…
Restorative Yoga, The Power to Heal In a culture that is over loaded with chronic stress, rushing, multitasking, bombardment of external senses and often self neglect, Restorative Yoga is needed now more than ever. It is the perfect antidote to this hectic lifestyle and a wonderful compliment to the more ‘Yang’ type practices like Ashtanga, Flow and Power. The body under stress: Chronic stress has been proven to significantly increase the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, compromised immunity,…
