Yoga

Happy Birthday Karma!

  “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Namaste Friends, I am constantly amazed at how time slips by. Seriously, Father Time isn’t the slow old man with the long white beard anymore; he is a super-fly fast youngster spinning out the days like a Vegas card dealer . 

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Love Your Mama!

“When the winds of change blow…some people build walls and others build windmills”-Chinese Proverb Namaste Friends,  Its spring and Mother Earth is muddy, wet, moist, blossoming, supple, and juicy right now.  She so femine! Spring is one of the bigger transition seasons because the change is so dramatic; we see in color again.  All that slumbers begins to awake.  The energy

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Empty Nest Syndrome-The Art of Letting Go

Namaste friends! I miss our teacher training students!  What an amazing group they were.  On April 9th, eight of the most dedicated and talented individuals received their hard earned teaching certificates after completing our nine week intensive course.  But now Lisa and I are feeling like the parents of high school graduates.  Our extended family has spread their wings an

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Dissolve, Revolve, Evolve

Namaste Friends, Dissolution: We have all seen images of the destruction caused by our quaking  Mother Earth on the densely populated island of Japan; and it breaks our hearts to see others who are helpless and in need.  The number of those who died, or are unaccounted for has exceeded 15,000—more than 5,400 deaths and nearly 9,600 missing, while some 380,000 are still

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Love One Another

Namaste Friends, Do you ever notice that sometimes you feel more loving, kind, and generous than other times?  I think that most of us try to be in that place as often as we can, but it isn’t always so easy to tap into that space 24 hours a day.  I am very aware of what can take me away from these

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Balance in all Things

Namaste friends~ It’s been a while since I last blogged here…I must be a bit out of balance.  🙂  It’s Lisa, Katrina’s right-hand woman here at Karma Yoga Center.    One of my favorite things about yoga practice is how it teaches us to find and maintain balance.  In our physical (asana) practice we learn how to stand on one foot, or find steadiness on

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New Season, New Schedule.

Namaste Friends! I hope you had a chance to catch the lunar eclipse on the eve of the winter solstice.  The lunatic in me was up at 1am watching that glowing, full orb gracefully receive her shadowy cloak from  Mother Earth.  It was so magical to watch.  Its auspicious moments like that which confirm my belief in a higher power.  In sanskrit, these moments of

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Come to your mat morning and night!

Namaste friends! Wow!  This is such a beautiful time of year, no?  These blogs usually come at you via our beautiful and eloquent leader, Katrina, but she took a well-deserved day off to spend more time in the mountains, so this one is compliments of Lisa.  🙂  We had a wonderful but short trip up to the Yoga Journal Conference

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I’m a Love Kamikaze!

Namaste Friends! First let me tell you how much fun Lisa (bff) and I had on our road trip to Bhakti Fest out in the Mojave Desert.   Bhakti means devotion or spiritual love.  The festival was inaugurated two years ago on Sept. 11th to help bring good, loving energy back to that day, that nine years ago dropped the world to

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Now is the time to be Present

Namaste Friends! So I was thinking.  Our life experience is so utterly amazing and beautiful.  If we PAUSE long enough in our harried lifestyle to really BE in our lives, we can see all the precious gifts and abundant good fortune we have right in our midst.  There is so much magnificence in even the simplest of things.  I was driving

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