40 Years of Making Fitness Fun
It All Started with Jane On May 1, 1981 I pulled on my spandex and leg warmers and taught my first aerobics class. With only a Jane Fonda video under my elastic belt, and a cassette tape in the boom box, I led three women through a bunch of jumping around to the beat. I […]
Groundhog Day…Again
I have been saying this all year, but today it’s literal. It’s Groundhog Day! Who can forget the DJ’s voice booming from Bill Murray’s clock radio as it ticks from 5:59 to 6:00am. And then…I’ve got you babe. If you don’t know what I am talking about kids, get into your jammies and curl up with […]
Make Peace With Your Past
These words ring so true as we close out this roller coaster of a year, don’t they? As we look back on 2020, it would be easy to stay in the muck. There has been plenty to complain about, plenty to cause stress and worry. Maybe we can make peace, even with 2020? I learned […]
Do What You Love
#Truth. My truth. I am so grateful that for the last (almost) 40 years, I have gotten up, pulled on stretchy pants, and headed out to do what I love. I can honestly say that there has not been a time that it has felt like work to me. Even the hard days, when my […]
Tears
We are six months into this global pandemic. Have you shed any tears? I am usually pulling toward positivity and hope. I still hold onto those, and, I know there is space for both. But we need to hold the darkness as well as the light. We need to feel what is here to feel. […]
A Debt to Pay
I recently paid off a credit card that I have held a balance on since college. College! Against my Grandfathers’ advice, I got a credit card my first year in college, and went crazy with all that “free money” (and the high interest rate that came with it!). That was over 30 years ago, and I […]
Fifty Seven…Please
Take a long, deep breath into your lungs, simply because you can. We have been hearing stories for two months about how this virus attacks the lungs and makes people feel like they are going to suffocate. And then…George. #icantbreathe I posted this photo on social media, proclaiming my pride for my son and his […]
The Next Step
”When in doubt, just take the next small step” ~Paulo Coehlo in The Pilgrimage How could this COVID-19 experience possibly be considered a pilgrimage? As I was listening to an interview with Paolo Coehlo, it struck me that everything he was saying about pilgrimage was true about our current quarantine and pandemic. A pilgrimage, at […]
Life Isn’t Fair
If you’re a parent, you have probably said this more times than you can count. Especially if you have more than one child. At a very young age, we start watching for the scales to balance. And we notice quickly when they don’t. “He got more ice cream than I did…Why does she get to […]
Why 200 Hours?
I get asked this a lot. Is a 200 Hour training really necessary? Why 200 Hours? Is that even enough? If you’ve been practicing yoga for any length of time, you have probably heard someone say, “You should do a teacher training” Here are 10 points to consider when thinking about doing a deeper dive […]