Ok, so it is becoming quite clear that blogging is not my superpower! I have truly neglected this task, especially since I developed the Yoga Moodra Website. I'm not sure anyone sees this or reads this...so it has not felt like an effective way to engage with others and especially my dear yoga students. If you ARE reading this....feel free to provide feedback about what you might like to read about on this site.
Namaste
Monday, February 24, 2020
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Thinking Ahead......
Hey Yogis!!!
I'd love your feedback. I am hoping to offer one or 2 special courses this fall/winter and would love to hear your thoughts about what you'd be interested in. These special courses or short workshops would be in addition to my regularly scheduled yoga classes and would offer an opportunity to dive a bit deeper into a topic.
Some ideas could be: a 2-4 class course on :
mudras
meditation
breath work
mindfulness
improving posture
core strength
yoga and mood management
etc etc.....
Of course, some of what you might suggest may fall outside my areas of expertise.....but I'd love feedback about what you'd be interested in. Knowing your needs and interests will help me plan something that feels relevant and useful.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts...respond to the blog, send me an email, or see me before or after yoga class!
Peace
I'd love your feedback. I am hoping to offer one or 2 special courses this fall/winter and would love to hear your thoughts about what you'd be interested in. These special courses or short workshops would be in addition to my regularly scheduled yoga classes and would offer an opportunity to dive a bit deeper into a topic.
Some ideas could be: a 2-4 class course on :
mudras
meditation
breath work
mindfulness
improving posture
core strength
yoga and mood management
etc etc.....
Of course, some of what you might suggest may fall outside my areas of expertise.....but I'd love feedback about what you'd be interested in. Knowing your needs and interests will help me plan something that feels relevant and useful.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts...respond to the blog, send me an email, or see me before or after yoga class!
Peace
Monday, February 25, 2019
What will you share?
In this last week of February, consider your own attitude and the energy that you share with others. Are you impatient? Rude? Demanding? Or are you calm, present, and loving toward others? Each day provides us with a choice about how we will behave and how we will choose to see the world and others. Take a moment to pause and be deliberate about choosing how you will interact with others. Will you complain and insist on getting your way? Or will you smile, speak with kindness and seek to lift up and brighten someone else's day? You get to decide.
Just imagine the shift in energy and attitude....may your day be full of peace and may you share some patience and love with those you meet.
Just imagine the shift in energy and attitude....may your day be full of peace and may you share some patience and love with those you meet.
Monday, February 4, 2019
Heart Month!!!
Happy February!
I guess the Groundhog did not see his shadow, so that will mean an early spring, right??? After last week's "polar vortex" and extreme cold, it would be nice to have an early spring and long hot summer!
February is the month of Valentine's Day....and is the adopted month of the American Heart Association to promote heart health. What will you do to improve your heart health this month? Research has shown that stress and heartache are hard on us both mentally and physically. My hope is that through the practice of yoga, we can all get in touch with our own loving nature and be able to share our love and compassion with those around us.
Expect some heart openers in classes this month....postures that allow us to breathe deeply into our heart space, finding room for more love and joy.
Happy Heart Month!
I guess the Groundhog did not see his shadow, so that will mean an early spring, right??? After last week's "polar vortex" and extreme cold, it would be nice to have an early spring and long hot summer!
February is the month of Valentine's Day....and is the adopted month of the American Heart Association to promote heart health. What will you do to improve your heart health this month? Research has shown that stress and heartache are hard on us both mentally and physically. My hope is that through the practice of yoga, we can all get in touch with our own loving nature and be able to share our love and compassion with those around us.
Expect some heart openers in classes this month....postures that allow us to breathe deeply into our heart space, finding room for more love and joy.
Happy Heart Month!
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Fear and Anger
Wow, I sure do seem to have trouble being committed to writing here on my blog. In all honesty, I developed the blog site as a way to communicate with my yoga students, but now with a website, that seems less necessary. So I am left with wondering if there is anything of interest to write about. Today as I was teaching yoga class, I had some ideas rolling around in my head and decided that it must be blog time! So here it goes.....
I was thinking about how angry everyone seems these days. Most of my friends are still pleasant enough of course, but it feels like our communities and our country are deeply divided and suspicious of one another. Just today I realized that in one week, it is election day. The attack ads and campaigning have been going on for so long, that it almost seems surprising that in one week it will be a done deal. Not that I'm complaining....it has been a long slog and I'm sure I am not the only one who is weary of the whole ordeal.
It got me wondering....how did we get to this point? I really have no answer to that question, but it got me thinking about the emotions of anger and rage. In the therapy room, I have many opportunities to talk to people who struggle with intense emotion and anger concerns. Eventually we get around to exploring what lurks underneath. Typically, people get angry when they are actually afraid or anxious, or when they feel poked in the "soft underbelly" somehow. When we feel a lack of respect, or we feel shamed and embarrassed, or weak and ineffective, instead of addressing these feelings, we get angry and bluster and rant and rave instead.
I think many of us collectively and as a culture right now are feeling anxious and fearful and we are getting angry about it!!! Events around the world keep happening that are certainly anxiety producing and create fear. We seem to hear weekly of mass shootings in schools, places of worship, or movie theaters. Road rage, drive by shootings, bombs sent in the mail. It's no wonder we are a bit apprehensive and frightened. But what do we do with these emotions? I worry that the fear and discomfort people feel is turning them into angry and hostile people. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen only to people on one side of the political aisle. While I completely disagree with the negative innuendo and name calling that comes from our current political leadership, I also see it each and every day in social media and of course, in all the negative attack ads. We have come to the point where many have decided that fear SELLS and that negativity "fires up a political base."
I cringe when people call the president (or anyone for that matter) names; it's not respectful. It's mean spirited and it takes us to a place where we have no ground to stand on to say that we want the harsh rhetoric and abusive behavior of others to stop. Unfortunately, hate and anger can spread like a wildfire out of control. At the end of the day, our best defense against getting caught up in the spiral of fear, anxiety, anger, and rage is to SLOW DOWN. TAKE A BREATH. If you recognize that you are feeling tweaked and upset, that's ok, but remember that you can decide how to behave, what you will say, and how you will respond. Don't be what it is you are raging against!
I'm not advocating that people should never get angry. Anger is an emotion that helps us galvanize and gather our energy for action. When we see injustice in the world, it should make us angry and motivated to make things right (Note that I didn't say get revenge). It's when our anger makes us unable to think clearly and we get entrenched in rigid thinking that things start to spin out of control. Then we start resorting to our own forms of violence, whether it is name calling, accusations, or something more extreme.
I go back to where I started....my friends and family are still pleasant and a joy to be around. That's really where we start and end each day, with people we hold dear. If we can all hold onto and remember that ALL of us in this nation and in our world are part of one human family, then perhaps that will help us change our tone just a bit. It starts at home. It starts with me. Be kind. Be generous. Hope for the best and and be an example of what you'd like to see in others. Get out and vote and may next Tuesday be a time of new beginnings and new ideas that benefit us all.
What the heck does this have to do with yoga you ask? Everything. Yoga is a practice for living and teaches us skills like breathing deeply and understanding our connection to all beings. We get on the mat every day to practice concepts of mindfulness and the word yoga itself means "yoke" or to bring together. We are human. We mess up. So we show up on our mats again to work on being mindful and aware of the divine energy that exists in all of us.
Namaste
I was thinking about how angry everyone seems these days. Most of my friends are still pleasant enough of course, but it feels like our communities and our country are deeply divided and suspicious of one another. Just today I realized that in one week, it is election day. The attack ads and campaigning have been going on for so long, that it almost seems surprising that in one week it will be a done deal. Not that I'm complaining....it has been a long slog and I'm sure I am not the only one who is weary of the whole ordeal.
It got me wondering....how did we get to this point? I really have no answer to that question, but it got me thinking about the emotions of anger and rage. In the therapy room, I have many opportunities to talk to people who struggle with intense emotion and anger concerns. Eventually we get around to exploring what lurks underneath. Typically, people get angry when they are actually afraid or anxious, or when they feel poked in the "soft underbelly" somehow. When we feel a lack of respect, or we feel shamed and embarrassed, or weak and ineffective, instead of addressing these feelings, we get angry and bluster and rant and rave instead.
I think many of us collectively and as a culture right now are feeling anxious and fearful and we are getting angry about it!!! Events around the world keep happening that are certainly anxiety producing and create fear. We seem to hear weekly of mass shootings in schools, places of worship, or movie theaters. Road rage, drive by shootings, bombs sent in the mail. It's no wonder we are a bit apprehensive and frightened. But what do we do with these emotions? I worry that the fear and discomfort people feel is turning them into angry and hostile people. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen only to people on one side of the political aisle. While I completely disagree with the negative innuendo and name calling that comes from our current political leadership, I also see it each and every day in social media and of course, in all the negative attack ads. We have come to the point where many have decided that fear SELLS and that negativity "fires up a political base."
I cringe when people call the president (or anyone for that matter) names; it's not respectful. It's mean spirited and it takes us to a place where we have no ground to stand on to say that we want the harsh rhetoric and abusive behavior of others to stop. Unfortunately, hate and anger can spread like a wildfire out of control. At the end of the day, our best defense against getting caught up in the spiral of fear, anxiety, anger, and rage is to SLOW DOWN. TAKE A BREATH. If you recognize that you are feeling tweaked and upset, that's ok, but remember that you can decide how to behave, what you will say, and how you will respond. Don't be what it is you are raging against!
I'm not advocating that people should never get angry. Anger is an emotion that helps us galvanize and gather our energy for action. When we see injustice in the world, it should make us angry and motivated to make things right (Note that I didn't say get revenge). It's when our anger makes us unable to think clearly and we get entrenched in rigid thinking that things start to spin out of control. Then we start resorting to our own forms of violence, whether it is name calling, accusations, or something more extreme.
I go back to where I started....my friends and family are still pleasant and a joy to be around. That's really where we start and end each day, with people we hold dear. If we can all hold onto and remember that ALL of us in this nation and in our world are part of one human family, then perhaps that will help us change our tone just a bit. It starts at home. It starts with me. Be kind. Be generous. Hope for the best and and be an example of what you'd like to see in others. Get out and vote and may next Tuesday be a time of new beginnings and new ideas that benefit us all.
What the heck does this have to do with yoga you ask? Everything. Yoga is a practice for living and teaches us skills like breathing deeply and understanding our connection to all beings. We get on the mat every day to practice concepts of mindfulness and the word yoga itself means "yoke" or to bring together. We are human. We mess up. So we show up on our mats again to work on being mindful and aware of the divine energy that exists in all of us.
Namaste
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
FALL SESSIONS BEGIN NEXT WEEK
Hello All!!
Have a look at the Yoga Moodra website and plan now to attend one of the fall yoga sessions. They all begin next week. Each session has 6 classes and will cost $50 cash/check. First time students can drop in and try out a class for $10. Ongoing students may pay as you go at $18 per class.
See you on the mat!
Have a look at the Yoga Moodra website and plan now to attend one of the fall yoga sessions. They all begin next week. Each session has 6 classes and will cost $50 cash/check. First time students can drop in and try out a class for $10. Ongoing students may pay as you go at $18 per class.
See you on the mat!
Monday, April 23, 2018
Spring Sessions!!
Wow, after much delay...it appears that Spring has Sprung!!!
Time to get on the mat to bend, breathe, and be at your best each day.
New session dates: Advent United Methodist Church, Eagan: New session starts April 23 and runs through June 4 (no class on Memorial Day May 28). Class cost is $50
Tuesday's class is underway at Glendale United Methodist Church in Savage, but it's not to late to join us! The class meets from 4:30-5:30pm and runs through May 22. You can certainly come and "pay as you go" for $10/per class.
Thursday's class at All Saints Lutheran Church will begin a new session next week on May 3rd and run through June 21. The 8 class session cost is $65.
Contact me if you have questions or feedback about class! I love being your yoga teacher and appreciate your thoughts and ideas about how to make the practice meaningful and beneficial to you!
Have a great day everyone!
Time to get on the mat to bend, breathe, and be at your best each day.
New session dates: Advent United Methodist Church, Eagan: New session starts April 23 and runs through June 4 (no class on Memorial Day May 28). Class cost is $50
Tuesday's class is underway at Glendale United Methodist Church in Savage, but it's not to late to join us! The class meets from 4:30-5:30pm and runs through May 22. You can certainly come and "pay as you go" for $10/per class.
Thursday's class at All Saints Lutheran Church will begin a new session next week on May 3rd and run through June 21. The 8 class session cost is $65.
Contact me if you have questions or feedback about class! I love being your yoga teacher and appreciate your thoughts and ideas about how to make the practice meaningful and beneficial to you!
Have a great day everyone!
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