This is why we yoga. Leeann asked me if I would be interested in writing something about my experience this past year. After immediately thinking “No way, I can’t write!”, I took a breath and said, “Sure”. I was...
Read moreWell Read: The Swamp
ELEVEN showed up.
As a yoga teacher, I have the excellent fortune to bask and be surrounded in the glow of light that shines from the students’ faces. Every week this is my privilege. Yesterday was no different, even with a dark, rainy, chilly morning...
Read moreTHIS is why we yoga: The crippling shame released
It’s been two years of urging myself to stay in this pose. Telling myself to take ten deep breaths and maybe the feeling will dissolve. Every time I went into a frog pose (a deep groin stretch) my body tensed and I was consumed in a feeling of...
Read moreWhy…….Yoga?
I am an alcoholic. My sobriety date is June 26, 2012. From that day forward I started a journey of finding my higher power, clearing the wreckage of the past, healing myself, and learning how to be of service to others. About two years ago I had...
Read moreMe and My Fascia by Laura Walsh 500 RYT
Fascia has become a buzz word in the wellness field. Everyone talks fascia. So you might already know that you are made of more fascia, (you know that gooey stuff that wraps and protects our inner body?) than anything else. If you have not...
Read moreDear Uni-A Series of Observations Attempting to Understand What the Universe is Trying to Teach
Yoga found me, lured me, with a gravitational pull. It was divine timing, it was fate, it was whatever angel or mystical creature you believe in. Never been to a class. No idea what I was doing. Four years have passed since my yoga...
Read moreWeekly WOW @ WWC- Why I teach PrePost Natal Yoga/Michelle
Weekly, I am honored to hold space for our prenatal/postnatal yoga class. As you can imagine, summer is not the most popular for the expectant set. But I sense its happening… as we prepare to shift into fall, a fresh crop of newly expectant...
Read moreHave You Heard the Wonders of STANDING DESKS?
Dr Megan is a specialist and has been instrumental through fundraisers and awareness to bring standing desks to some local schools. We are thrilled her article made it in Katy Bowman’s newsletter...
Read moreWhat I Know Now-A New Career
What I Know Now. My next career is about to begin. I know this will be exciting, fulfilling, and filled with variety. What I don’t know is how it will change my life on a daily basis. In my lifetime I have held many roles. I have been a daughter...
Read moreStanding on the Side of Love – Becky and Jordan
My daughter and I attended a rally in Boston last night to show our support for the Governor’s efforts to offer housing to the children of Central America, who desperately need our help now. Massachusetts is ready to serve. I was so happy to be...
Read moreGirls Night Out Workshop – Celebrating Summer Solstice
A-Rise and Shine, for the light has come, and the glory of the sun will shine upon you. For the past 8 years I have had the good fortune and honor to celebrate the summer solstice with “my girls” from GIRLS NIGHT OUT WORKSHOP (GNO) GNO is a...
Read moreWhitmanWellnessBlog:Nurturing-Take Time by Erin Munroe
This week has been filled with talk about nurturing our mothers and if you are a mother, taking time out, ONE DAY A YEAR, to nurture yourself. As wonderful as the nurturing sentiment may be, the idea that Mothers and other caregivers only get...
Read moreLuminous-Soul is in us/I. A blog by Laura Walsh
I know where my soul resides in this physical form, down, in the middle, not in the front, nor the back, but center, in the inner sacrum. The head and the heart struggle for top billing and being human, I let them take turns thinking...
Read moreMagical-I am all. All I am. By Laura Walsh
Do you know that you are made up of the same “stuff” that stars are made of and for that matter, the rest of the Universe? Can you believe it? This is a challenging thought to stay with; it comes and goes. When it is missing, I know that my...
Read moreWhat I know for sure….for our yogaSpirit Yoga Teacher Graduates
I know that we all know the answers to our questions. We are just not still enough to listen. So, we search outside ourselves, and in doing so we immediately agree with littleness and not magnitude. I know each of you stands in your...
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