DECEMBER 27, 2022 - PEAK POSE: ROTATING WARRIOR III

You deserve to be filled as much as you pour.

DECEMBER 17, 2022 - PEAK POSE: WARRIOR III (VIRABHADRASANA III)

From the Willie Nelson/Toby Keith song, "Don't Let the Old Man In".
This lyric, this big question.
Ask yourself: How old would you be if you didn't know the day you were born?

It's another way of asking yourself, "How well am I liv...

DECEMBER 6, 2022 - PEAK POSE: EAGLE TWIST

"If not now, then when?"
We have this great tendency of "if/then"'ing ourselves.
If I make more money, then I'd be successful.
If I lost weight, then I'd be more beautiful.
If I work myself to the bone, then I'm worthy of a vacation.
Etc. Etc. Etc.

Wha...

NOVEMBER 28, 2022 - PEAK POSE: SIDE CROW WITH EAGLE LEGS

Breathe until you stop needing anything to be different - the truest practice of Gratitude. Want what you have. Want who you are NOW.

The Cure for It All by JULIA FEHRENBACHER

Go gently today, don’t hurry
or think about the next thing. W...

NOVEMBER 21, 2022 - PEAK POSE: EKA HASTA BHUJASANA (ELEPHANT TRUNK POSE)

Let go or be dragged. Seriously. We must accept the things we cannot change or understand... and when it's time, let it go!

NOVEMBER 8, 2022 - PEAK POSE: LEANING BIRD OF PARADISE

Relax. Nothing is under control.

What do you gain by losing your need to control things?

“You are afraid of surrender because you don't want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety.” -Elizabeth Gilbert.

OCTOBER 31, 2022 - PEAK POSE: SIDE CROW INTO EKA PADA KOUNDINYASANA I

What if your fear were your teacher? As Pema Chodron said, "Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the Truth". So what is your fear teaching you? How is it moving you closer to the truth?

(With a Halloween inspired pl...

OCTOBER 25, 2022 - PEAK POSE: EKA PADA KOUNDINYASANA I

Storage, by Mary Oliver

When I moved from one house to another
there were many things I had no room
for. What does one do? I rented a storage
space. And filled it. Years passed.
Occasionally I went there and looked in,
but nothing happened,...

OCTOBER 19, 2022 - PEAK POSE: CROSS-FOOTED CROW POSE

"Be like the tree and let the dead leaves drop."- Rumi

OCTOBER 7, 2022 - PEAK POSE: CROW POSE JUMP BACK INTO CHATURANGA

What if life were happening FOR you instead of TO you? How would that change your perspective? Wouldn't it be such a relief? Wouldn't the challenges seem less so, knowing that they were FOR you? :)

Something to ponder.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022 - PEAK POSE: CROW ON FOREARMS

Now, everybody’s is scroll, scroll, scroll, right? The second we start feeling our hot loneliness, we’re like, “You know, what I need to do? I need to check on that guy I knew in second grade and see how his trip to Bermuda is going.”

And we feel...

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 - PEAK POSE: PIKE HANDSTAND

If we really knew how little time we had, we'd make better and different choices.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022 - PEAK POSE: RECLINING HERO (SUPTA VIRASANA)

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
Let's look at our patterns and habits... and keep the ones that are healthy.
Let's change the patterns that are not.

AUGUST 30, 2022 - PEAK POSE: FIREFLY (TITIBASANA)

"Behind every strong person is a story that gave them no other choice."

Honor your story. Honor your strength. Honor yourself.

AUGUST 23, 2022 - PEAK POSE: STANDING PIGEON TWIST
(With a funny attempt at STANDING GRASSHOPPER. Please don't try that. lol)

"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming from everything that isn't really you, so you can be who were meant to be in the fir...

AUGUST 11, 2022 - PEAK POSE: CAMEL (USTRASANA)

Don't be so f*ckin hard on yourself. Seriously. OK? You hear me? We need to stop making our already difficult life harder by being hard on ourselves.

AUGUST 4, 2022 - PEAK POSE: WHEEL (URDHVA DHANURASANA)

"The body keeps the score." Wanna know what you're REALLY going thru? Check in with your body. It's keeping the score.

JULY 26, 2022 - PEAK POSE: HALF HANDSTAND (ARDHA ADHO MUKHA VRKSASANA)

"Your biography becomes your biology" ~ Caroline Myss

Ain't that the truth! It's crazy how closely connected the two are.
Everything you're going thru in your life is reflected in your body. So honor your body for going thru...

JULY 15, 2022 - PEAK POSE: FOREARM BALANCE (PINCHA MAYURASANA) into SCORPION (VRISCHIKASANA)

We've talked about doing the thing your soul needs to do anyway.
Then we discussed WHAT you need to do and WHY.
Now it's time to focus on HOW.

Glennon Doyle said, " Our minds are excuse makers; our imag...

JULY 12, 2022 - PEAK POSE: HALF BOW POSE (ARDHA DHANURASANA)

What do you have to do anyway...and WHY?

JULY 2, 2022 - PEAK POSE: SIDE BOW POSE (PARSVA DHANURASANA)

Just do it anyway...

Seriously. Whatever you have to do, do it scared. Do it tired. Do it angry. Love anyway. Be kind anyway. Keep going anyway.

READ IN CLASS:
The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and sel...

JUNE 21, 2022 - PEAK POSE: FLYING ELEPHANT

You either quit or you keep going - they both hurt.
Read that again.

:)

What are you choosing?

June 14, 2022 - PEAK POSE: SIDE CROW WITH SPLIT LEGS (PARSVA BAKASANA WITH SPLIT LEGS)

Stop the negative self-talk, ok? I mean it. Really. Stop it!
We have to be kinder to ourselves.
The time is NOW!

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyo...

JUNE 7, 2022 - PEAK POSE: REVOLVED HALF MOON CHAPASANA (PARIVRTTA ARDHA CHANDRASANA CHAPASANA)

All that you have is your soul.
Truly.
That's it.
And so why do we spend most of our life NOT listening to it? Instead of identifying with who we really are, we align with fear and worry instead.

Can...