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After 12 weeks of yoga--one must sail.jpg
Afternoon Session, Cedar Ridge.jpg
All about Abhyangha.jpg
All God's creatures.jpg
Altar-ing my consciousness.jpg
Anjali Mudrasana.jpg
Anyone HUNGRY.jpg
Art of tongue-scraping.jpg
Baby hummers outside our door.jpg
Balancing across a Bali river.jpg
Banyan Botanical overview.jpg
Big smiles for the journey home.jpg
Body Language is the best teacher.jpg
Bonding with Indio, the wonder horse.jpg
Calming Pitta in the cool grass.jpg
Cedar waiting for your arrival.jpg
Chakrasana.jpg
Come visit!!!!.jpg
Cooking with the girls--Lebongan, Bali.jpg
Couple's get-away--how about yoga.jpg
Dancin' our JUNK.jpg
David & Marina, our teachers from Chakra Yoga, Thailand.jpg
Doin the dosha.jpg
Dr. Ladd's wife, Usha and I under the Bhodi... Pune, India.jpg
Dr. Vasant Ladd shares in the guru kula.jpg
Drinking the nectar of the Gods.jpg
Drumming up the LUV!.jpg
Ears are Ekasha.jpg
Eka pada adho mukha svanasana.jpg
Eka pada chandrasana.jpg
Ekapada Rajakapotasana.jpg
En Route to India.jpg
Enraptured by the Neti demo.jpg
Feel the LUV.jpg
Fruit Mandala, Ubud, Bali.jpg
Giggles between sessions.jpg
Heading back in for more.jpg
Herb manufacturers, Tripati.jpg
Hiking in Juno.jpg
Hindu, Christian, Muslim, ONE.jpg
How to use a Neti pot.jpg
Jnana Yoga under the apple tree.jpg
Jungle hike with Uma, Bali.jpg
Laughing like Hanuman beneath the Bhodi, Pune, India.jpg
Le Chef.JPG
Lift me UP.jpg
Listening and learning.jpg
Lookin pretty cozy, Cedar Ridge.jpg
Mama comes in many forms.jpg
Mantra in the Gorge.jpg
Mastering the singing bowl.jpg
Maui does a yogi good.jpg
May the practice begin-Cedar Ridge.jpg
Medicine straight from the Bali jungle.jpg
Moonset, sunrise--Thong Sala, Thailand.jpg
Morning sun in our forest.jpg
My Mama.jpg
Preparing to bless the motorbike-seriously.jpg
Pulse at the farm clinic, Pune, India.jpg
Pulling in the drive to the YogaFarm.jpg
Pulse evaluation.jpg
Raw herbs before sorting.jpg
Ready for more.jpg
Rock Creek out our window.jpg
Salamba Sirsasana.jpg
Salmon spawning out our window.jpg
Sattva Yoga Retreat--2010.jpg
See how we LOVE.jpg
Setting Intentions.jpg
Setting the goat samkalpa in 2008.jpg
Shootin hoops on the beach.jpg
Show us your SOUL SHINE dance.jpg
Small accomplishments are a BIG deal.jpg
Snuggled in for a little Swadhyaya.jpg
Sorting Dried herbs, Pune, India.jpg
Souls come in all sizes, Haad Yuan, Thailand.jpg
Stoking the fires of Agni.jpg
Studying for exams-Pyramid Yoga Center.jpg
Sunrise at Vedic City, Iowa.jpg
Takin us HIGHYA.jpg
Teaching Yoga at Basketball Camp.jpg
Temple--here we come.jpg
The GLOW.jpg
The Land speaks.jpg
The view from our living room.jpg
Three Part Yogic Breath Practice.jpg
Time for a walk beneath the stars.jpg
Tongue evaluation.jpg
Three Part Yogic Breath Practice.jpg
Traditional preparation of herbal formula.jpg
Uma talks Ayurveda at Shudha Mala.jpg
Tongue evaluation.jpg
Understanding Prakriti.jpg
Traditional preparation of herbal formula.jpg
Utthanasana.jpg
Uma talks Ayurveda at Shudha Mala.jpg
Understanding Prakriti.jpg
Vaidyas buying herbs for their patients.jpg
Utthanasana.jpg
Virabhadrasana 2 in the Gorge.jpg
Utthita Parsvakonasana.jpg
Walking the Labyrinth.jpg
Vaidyas buying herbs for their patients.jpg
Watching the rice grow...luxury of time.jpg
Virabhadrasana 2 in the Gorge.jpg
Walking the Labyrinth.jpg
Watching the rice grow...luxury of time.jpg
What they teach us.jpg
What they teach us.jpg
What's yer Dosha.jpg
What's yer Dosha.jpg
Wild harvest salad from the land.jpg
Wild harvest salad from the land.jpg
Yes Ma'am--this IS yoga.jpg
Yoga GLOW.jpg
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2011 Yoga Retreat LUV.jpg
A little silly.jpg
A walk to the waterfall.jpg
After 12 weeks of yoga--one must sail.jpg
Afternoon Session, Cedar Ridge.jpg
All about Abhyangha.jpg
All God's creatures.jpg
Altar-ing my consciousness.jpg
Anjali Mudrasana.jpg
Anyone HUNGRY.jpg
Art of tongue-scraping.jpg
Baby hummers outside our door.jpg
Balancing across a Bali river.jpg
Banyan Botanical overview.jpg
Big smiles for the journey home.jpg
Body Language is the best teacher.jpg
Bonding with Indio, the wonder horse.jpg
Calming Pitta in the cool grass.jpg
Cedar waiting for your arrival.jpg
Chakrasana.jpg
Come visit!!!!.jpg
Cooking with the girls--Lebongan, Bali.jpg
Couple's get-away--how about yoga.jpg
Dancin' our JUNK.jpg
David & Marina, our teachers from Chakra Yoga, Thailand.jpg
Doin the dosha.jpg
Dr. Ladd's wife, Usha and I under the Bhodi... Pune, India.jpg
Dr. Vasant Ladd shares in the guru kula.jpg
Drinking the nectar of the Gods.jpg
Drumming up the LUV!.jpg
Ears are Ekasha.jpg
Eka pada adho mukha svanasana.jpg
Eka pada chandrasana.jpg
Ekapada Rajakapotasana.jpg
En Route to India.jpg
Enraptured by the Neti demo.jpg
Feel the LUV.jpg
Fruit Mandala, Ubud, Bali.jpg
Giggles between sessions.jpg
Heading back in for more.jpg
Herb manufacturers, Tripati.jpg
Hiking in Juno.jpg
Hindu, Christian, Muslim, ONE.jpg
How to use a Neti pot.jpg
Jnana Yoga under the apple tree.jpg
Jungle hike with Uma, Bali.jpg
Laughing like Hanuman beneath the Bhodi, Pune, India.jpg
Le Chef.JPG
Lift me UP.jpg
Listening and learning.jpg
Lookin pretty cozy, Cedar Ridge.jpg
Mama comes in many forms.jpg
Mantra in the Gorge.jpg
Mastering the singing bowl.jpg
Maui does a yogi good.jpg
May the practice begin-Cedar Ridge.jpg
Medicine straight from the Bali jungle.jpg
Moonset, sunrise--Thong Sala, Thailand.jpg
Morning sun in our forest.jpg
My Mama.jpg
Preparing to bless the motorbike-seriously.jpg
Pulse at the farm clinic, Pune, India.jpg
Pulling in the drive to the YogaFarm.jpg
Pulse evaluation.jpg
Raw herbs before sorting.jpg
Ready for more.jpg
Rock Creek out our window.jpg
Salamba Sirsasana.jpg
Salmon spawning out our window.jpg
Sattva Yoga Retreat--2010.jpg
See how we LOVE.jpg
Setting Intentions.jpg
Setting the goat samkalpa in 2008.jpg
Shootin hoops on the beach.jpg
Show us your SOUL SHINE dance.jpg
Small accomplishments are a BIG deal.jpg
Snuggled in for a little Swadhyaya.jpg
Sorting Dried herbs, Pune, India.jpg
Souls come in all sizes, Haad Yuan, Thailand.jpg
Stoking the fires of Agni.jpg
Studying for exams-Pyramid Yoga Center.jpg
Sunrise at Vedic City, Iowa.jpg
Takin us HIGHYA.jpg
Teaching Yoga at Basketball Camp.jpg
Temple--here we come.jpg
The GLOW.jpg
The Land speaks.jpg
The view from our living room.jpg
Three Part Yogic Breath Practice.jpg
Time for a walk beneath the stars.jpg
Tongue evaluation.jpg
Three Part Yogic Breath Practice.jpg
Traditional preparation of herbal formula.jpg
Uma talks Ayurveda at Shudha Mala.jpg
Tongue evaluation.jpg
Understanding Prakriti.jpg
Traditional preparation of herbal formula.jpg
Utthanasana.jpg
Uma talks Ayurveda at Shudha Mala.jpg
Understanding Prakriti.jpg
Vaidyas buying herbs for their patients.jpg
Utthanasana.jpg
Virabhadrasana 2 in the Gorge.jpg
Utthita Parsvakonasana.jpg
Walking the Labyrinth.jpg
Vaidyas buying herbs for their patients.jpg
Watching the rice grow...luxury of time.jpg
Virabhadrasana 2 in the Gorge.jpg
Walking the Labyrinth.jpg
Watching the rice grow...luxury of time.jpg
What they teach us.jpg
What they teach us.jpg
What's yer Dosha.jpg
What's yer Dosha.jpg
Wild harvest salad from the land.jpg
Wild harvest salad from the land.jpg
Yes Ma'am--this IS yoga.jpg
Yoga GLOW.jpg

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
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Love these two beautiful yoga teachers and powerful women.... and all the others who joined our yoga collective yesterday as we explored the "promise of yoga" and how we are all "fire keepers" in our own, unique ways... Self-care, Self-trust, clear voice, and holding an open-hearted space for yoga students everywhere to realize that well-being is within the realm of possibility and that with awareness and presence, we are holding sacred space for great things.... what a beautiful way to spend a Sunday afternoon🙏🏻❤ #holdsacresspace #yoga #pilgrimoflight #yogateacher #yogacollective #liveyouryoga  #practiceyogaeveryday #firekeeper
We are each so very different. .
I caught myself looking at these eggs – (one of the many fine donations I get for teaching a community yoga class at the YogaFarm). .
I can't help but think why we can honor and have such reverence and joy in celebrating difference when we look at these pretty little eggs – but when we look at the way each individual assimilates information,  shows up in the world, expresses love and emotes..... all of a sudden, there's a whole lotta right and wrong… Too much and not enough… Acceptable and unacceptable… and the "just right"'point is not static -- it's like water..... moving, shifting and changing -- always.
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You can be beautiful – but don't attract too much attention.
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You can dress gorgeously – but there's a fine line between gorgeous and "you know what". .
You can be smart – but not so smart that I lose influence.
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I am doing some deep study lately --- and I'm holding sacred vigil for the good the bad and the ugly -- and I'm reaching in and reaching out (to you) and inviting you to look within and see where your own edges are..... and sense what it might be like -- the next time you felt like you were "too much" or "not enough" if someone expanded the boundaries of acceptability and invited in your "everything".... ??? How would that be? And how might you do that for someone else. 🙏🏻❤ Happy Friday, dear ones. ...
#liveyouryoga #om #yogalookslikethis #sankalpa  #livewithintention #divineyourlife #spirituality #onewithall #manifest #supersoulsunday #mindful #liveinthelight #getoffyourasana #thisisyogatoo #practiceyogaeveryday #mondaymorninginspiration #mindfulness #doitdifferently #consciousliving #godeepandgoOM #divineyourlife #walkwithme #pilgrimoflight #108dayyogi #108daypilgrim
Slowly. Slowly. .
Slowly I watch the mind buzz around the ten million things that "need" (really?) to get done. Slowly. I inhale and feel the storm -- listening to the rain.... and the rhythms of it ALL. .
Slowly. I identify the little things -- like this handmade mug I found at a secondhand store for a friend.... I tried to send it home with her many times and she would smile and tell me "but it lives at your house". .
Slowly. I honor the busy and the buzz and not become it because I am not that and it is not me. .
I am this: Free. Alive. In love. ...
Slowly. Slowly. Gentle. 
Yes. 
This. 🙏🏻❤ #listenup #thisisyogatoo #liveyouryoga #restandreflect #altaryourconsciousness #divineyourlife
What if I told you I didn't leave the house for three days and barely ate anything except dark chocolate and fruit? And what if I told you I only got four hours of sleep each of the last few nights? And that none of this was on purpose but it was right? How do I know?  Because I can see it in my eyes, and my skin, and on my lips. I can see the balance in this up-close-and-personal shot as it reveals a sense of oneness--from the inside out.

Sweet peeps.... We've got to stop doing things because somebody said to someone else  that it was "good for you".... we've got to listen to the language of our bodies and learn to take time and say "yes". So, why the selfie???? It's a habit of mine, actually -- I just don't do it for social media's sake -- it's my own medical experiment.  I have this history of looking at a photo of myself and immediately stalking myself -- my diet, my hormones, my stress levels, my hydration, my internal "climate", my work load.... Ayurveda has taught me that this is key in getting and staying clear with myself --- bc if what I've got going on isn't clear, neither will be what I'm putting out.... .
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So here's the nectar: whenever you can..... sauna, fast, cry, laugh, make love--even if (especially if) you don't have a partner, sigh on every exhale for one hour straight, bow your head in gratitude, tell yourself your deepest secret and forgive yourself, surround yourself with music, candles, and dark chocolate. Read and listen to sages and teachers and meditations that leave you speechless. .
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Krishna Murti, maybe, was the one who said it.... "to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick world is no measure of health"...... Just saying. 🙏🏻❤ #livewithintention #areyouhidingbehindafakensmile #liveyouryoga #getoffyourasana #purifyyourvessel #myreligionislove #thisisyogatoo #upcloseandpersonal
We sat for two hours and distilled it down to this :: 1. Define your role -- what is your "sacred job"? 2. What gives you goosebumps? Brings you to tears? Sends a chill up your spine? 
3.  Embody ONE thing --- to awaken your highest service, ignite your flame... and do it every single day -- 🙏🏻❤ Know thyself.
Show thyself.
Be thyself.

FIRE KEEPERS:::: Alignment, personal power and potency are the same across the board -- So..... if you are a Yoga Teacher in the #pnw -- we are doing it again.  This Sunday -- We come together as "Fire Keepers" of yoga and our personal authenticity.... to simultaneously stand in our power and our vulnerability.... 🔥❤ It's all here: http://bit.ly/2mHnAVC 
Come if you are called. 
#yoga #portlandyoga #firekeeper #impact #yogateacher #pdxyogascene
The quote that keeps running through my head...... .
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"If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would treat her differently." - Terry Tempest Williams
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#awakenings #myreligionislove
"Surround yourself with those who are seeking the truth. Run like hell from anyone who has claimed to have found it." .
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In the early morning, I sit quietly in the dark hour. I ponder one word:: TRUTH:: And how that which I "find to be " true reveals itself to me -- I used to think truth came in words or promises, contracts and agreements... -- now I know in my bones it is found in nature, on the wind, and in that which catches my breath, sends a chill up my spine, stops me in my tracks, brings tears to my eyes and gives me goosebumps.... .
I have found that Truth cannot be proven, nor disproven... and it need not be -- for ultimately it is the only thing that will remain when all that is NOT true falls away.

Truth just is. .
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morninginspiration #truthis #truthjustis #supersoulsunday #walkwithme #truthbomb #liveyouryoga #thisisyogatoo #yogachurch #awakenings

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