Hope Springs

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach This winter feels like the shortest in my life. Maybe this was the first year I more fully lived the energy of the season. I mostlyContinue reading “Hope Springs”

vitoyoga December: Persistent Practice & Yoga at the Wall

“Humility and gratitude go hand in hand. The feeling of gratitude is an interaction between the mind and the body. Both will benefit from it. Awareness increases so that we become grateful for everything we are given. We have to learn, literally learn, to be grateful for what we receive day by day, simply toContinue reading “vitoyoga December: Persistent Practice & Yoga at the Wall”

Midweek Metta Meditation

The following wisdom of Donna Farhi that I shared in class this week (from her book Bringing Yoga to Life) deeply resonates with my metta meditation and Yoga practices: “What we discipline, then, is this movement of awareness, training ourselves to stay with rather than run from all that we experience. When we choose to stayContinue reading “Midweek Metta Meditation”

vitoyoga Autumnal Transitions Newsletter: New Classes and Videos

Dear Yogis, Friends, and Family, Many blessings for the start of a new season. Autumn offers a beautiful opportunity for us to reflect on transitions and impermanence. This may feel especially relevant and challenging now given COVID-19 and all that is going on in the world. The closing of studios including Yang’s in Andover whereContinue reading “vitoyoga Autumnal Transitions Newsletter: New Classes and Videos”

Finding My Way (and Joy) with Teaching Online Yoga

2.47 You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.  From Bhagavad Gita As It Is – by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ItContinue reading “Finding My Way (and Joy) with Teaching Online Yoga”