In March of 2020, none of us could predict how the pandemic would unfold and change all of our lives. That second week of March, all I knew was that people were no longer keen on coming to yoga classes in person and it was time to pivot to an online format. “Two weeks” was the word on the street as Governor Newsom made the stay-at-home order on March 19. My gut told me it was going to be longer than that…

It’s time for me to start writing about the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. As far as I’m concerned, yoga without philosophy is not really yoga, but just a set of exercises, and frankly, it’s the philosophy that has been life changing for me, not the postures. (Although, in all fairness, the postures have been…

As a Mom & Baby Yoga teacher with 15 years experience, of course I believe in the vast benefits of the practice- I wouldn’t be a teacher if I didn’t! However, I’m a bit skeptical on some of the claims. Better infant sleep? Yoga practice certainly didn’t help in this department for my babies or me! Increased brain activity? I’d like to see the research study proving that! Happier babies? Maybe it’s a false perception since the moms with fussy babies tend to stay home? (That was me with my first, who seemed to be the only baby who put up a fuss the two or three times we regretfully took the chance of going to class. If this is you, please see #7 below.) I give you my big “expert” shrug on these particular assertions. If you come to my class, I can promise you these seven benefits:

Being a mom comes with many challenges, of course, and many are difficult to understand until you actually find yourself in that situation: the toll a chronic lack of sleep takes on your body, how hard breastfeeding can be, how invested you could possibly become in another person’s well being, choosing where to live based on schools...The list goes on. One thing that is topping my own list lately (okay, for the last 17 years, really) is space! When I hear “Space: the Final Frontier,” I think of empty-nesting, not Star Trek!