I want more people to experience the ripple effect: you come to yoga for your tight hamstrings and you leave with better boundaries. You come to manage stress and you leave with a spiritual practice. You come for one reason and you stay because you've touched something real: the integration of body, breath, and mind. The lived experience that you're not broken, you're not separate from yourself, you're not supposed to be thinking your way through everything.

I want more people to know that a practice that evolves with you is a practice you'll never outgrow. That being a forever student isn't a failure to master something. It's an acceptance that growth and learning and deepening are the actual destination.

Post Covid we all were shooketh, in varied ways. Hubby the cats and I hunkered down pretty seriously and started out drinking and zooming like so many, but then switched gears into crazy cooking and exercising. As a reward this time last year I was in a wonderful place. My marriage thrived, my work was going great, and I was in probably the best shape of my life when not skiing 100+ days a year. We were in some aspects newlyweds through all this but also making up time by always being together in quarantine. And then…