“Tell me about your body.” She’s setting up her massage table in the corner of my bedroom while I slowly ease into my robe in the bathroom. I step out and say, “I have an arthritic foot, and my left hip is really tight.” Fifteen minutes later, as her hands are coaxing out the mass […]
It pains me to admit I’ve felt tremendous tension with my older daughter recently. We’ve had a bumpy season, not quite striking our balance between lazy time at home and structured time away. We’ve grown bored and quite sick of one another. And, I’ve been holding onto a vice grip of managing her behavior so […]
As a young adult, I heard someone I admire say, “In the end, life is about people and our relationships with them.” My jaw dropped. Why had no one told me this before? Why hadn’t that been the topic of every class I’d ever taken in school? Why did I spend so much time trying […]
In a recent social outing, one of my friends – who is also a mother – was chatting about how messy her life is. The way she was talking, you’d think she really didn’t have it together. Well, let me tell you, she does! Sure, there may be dishes in the sink, and hair cuts […]
If you’re looking for a 10-minute yoga class or a 20-minute yoga class, check out these short & sweet audio recordings on the podcast. This recent recording really helped my low back pain!
For the first time in a year (how can that be?!?) I added a new yoga class to my free podcast channel. Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: 30 Minute Mindful Yoga & Meditation: Your quiet super vault https://anchor.fm/theyogaharbor/episodes/30-Minute-Mindful-Yoga–Meditation-Your-quiet-super-vault-e21m3hp
I had a tough weekend. It should have been a great weekend. I took an afternoon all by myself in a tiny cabin, then I had some close friends joining me for a hike and visioning session. During this session, we encountered a lot of conflict. A good bit of it was driven by me. […]
I never quite know how to answer the question, “What do you do?” I used to say, “I’m a yoga teacher.” Or, eventually, “I own a small business.” These days, I say something like, “I’m a full time mother. I also a post partum doula, meditation teacher, lactation specialist, and I can brew an herbal […]
This weekend, I became the mother of a five year old. We offered to take my daughter to Disneyland on her birthday. She’s never been, so she didn’t know what she was saying ‘no’ to, but she did say no! Instead, she cooked up the idea that she would like to see snow. We booked […]
At age thirty-one, I didn’t know what to do with my days. I remember my husband telling me, “Just relax and enjoy yourself!” And I shot back, venom in my voice, “I’m not retired! I’m not seventy! I want to do something!” At that time, my friends were doing one of two things: building their […]