I’m a doer. I don’t like to stop until there is clarity around me, peace and harmony with belongings and good food in the kitchen to feed my family. I’m always full of ideas. Ones that I usually don’t have time to act on. There are crafts I want to make, new foods to bake […]
Twist and Breathe
Today is day 8 of my 40 days of yoga. Yesterday threw me for a loop and I didn’t make it on my mat. I found out in the morning my husband’s grandmother passed away. She was 91 and, had a good long life and died at home sitting in her favorite chair. Beyond the […]
Mindful Moments
While I practice my 30-day retreat for self-discipline from the book Making a Chance for Good, I am taking some time to slow down and evaluate how to do life with four kids. The commitments I’ve chosen to use while I evaluate my self-discipline are doing yoga everyday for 40 days, doing two nursing mediations a […]
40 days of yoga, day 4
On the days when Esther Kate and I stay home while the sisters are at school, I can work in a good yoga practice. It’s interrupted by nursing and settling her, and working around when she naps. This is all consistently, inconsistent. So my main goal of each day is literally to get on my mat and […]
Yoga for the New Year
Happy 2016! In a way, the last several months have been a blur just keeping everyone’s basic needs met at home. I have made an effort to be fully present for Esther Kate’s new baby days because she is my last baby, and I wish I could make every day last a few more hours. Sleeping, breathing, […]
My traveling yoga studio
I have now officially taught two yoga classes! It’s something I put off doing for years, while in the thick of mothering young children. During those days my free time was spent in places where babies in tow and toddlers on hips were welcome. I am in the middle of a nine-month-long, 200-hour yoga certification program. Before […]
Teaching kids yoga at home
We have something new going on at our house this fall. It’s yoga Thursdays. My living room now doubles as a home yoga space and I have begun sharing my passion for yoga with my family. What sparked it? In September I started a 200 hour yoga teacher training certification program. Yes this is BIG. […]