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Remember Who You Are
I LOVE what I do. Every day, I live and grow my spiritual and yogic practice and share it with others. Whether 10 or 1000, ...
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I Want my Dharma Now!
Once we start down the path of living our dharma (life’s passion), most of us want to do it right now! We want to immediately ...
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Upcoming Events
I love fall! The crisp morning air, the glorious color, the after-glow from my recent retreat, and, oddly, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils. I ...
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Rewrite Your Character Description
Like all authors, I create descriptions for each character when I write. What do they look like? What motivates them? What are their interests, beliefs, ...
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The Meaning of OM
Most of the time, people look at the beautiful symbol of Om and think of it as the foundational vibration of the universe. And it ...
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Your Mind: The Ultimate Doer
The mind literally can’t sit still. It fidgets and wants to be in the limelight like an energetic toddler. It speaks loudly. It likes make-believe ...
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Quieting the Mind
In the Upanishads, ancient Hindu texts, the workings of the mind are likened to a charioteer and his horses. The chariot is the body, the ...
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Being While Doing
When we embark on a soul journey, we picture ourselves in meditation—becoming one with the universe, finding perfect peace and stillness. While meditation is a ...
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The Right Questions
When we are stuck, we typically focus on solutions. It seems rational, right? You have a problem, your need a way to solve it. But ...
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Soul Coaching
Embark on some Soul Coaching with me! As many of you know, I am about to complete my life coaching certification. I have begun ...
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Daily Mindfulness
How do I go from 100 mph to zero on a busy day? Many of my clients say they want to spend time each day ...
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Kindness
What does it mean to be kind? Some behaviors are clearly unkind, like those seen in the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. But what about ...
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Do You Prioritize Self-Care?
Do you prioritize and carve out time for self-care? If not, why? A trend I see in my coaching practice is that while people state ...
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Why Coaching?
Coaching is mainly about helping people discover the gems of wisdom that already lie within them. So why is a coach necessary? If the answer ...
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Seeing Our Reflection in a Mirror
I love Louise Hay’s “Power Thought Cards”. I use them in my retreat gift bags and sometimes randomly leave them in varying places around the ...
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Being Powerful
Have you ever considered what it means to be powerful? Do you feel like you are powerful? Do you even want to be? I asked ...
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Live Soulfully – Silence Your Inner Playwright
We are all master storytellers. Our minds busily create stories about every experience and interaction we encounter. They place us as the main character, creating ...
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Making Decisions
We make decisions and choices every day, some of them small and some of them life-altering. It would be nice to have a crystal ball, ...
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Intuition
Awakening Intuition My mother passed away in early 2019. Since her passing, she has started connecting with me, my existing intuitive abilities taking a giant ...
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Harnessing the Power of Humanness at Work
It’s another typical project. Someone in senior management decided that you need a system change. I’ve seen it many times. In one company, a new ...
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Dharma
I thought I knew and was living my dharma, or life mission, but the more I dove into it, the more I realized it was ...
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Patterns
Throughout the universe, there are patterns. Blueprints of similarity that unexplainably find their way into objects bearing no apparent similarity, from the microscopic to the ...
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2021 Retreat September 10 – 13
The 2021 Retreat is taking shape! We’ll be back at True Nature Healing Arts in Carbondale during the wonderful fall colors. This year, instead of ...
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Meditation as your State of Being
When you first begin to meditate, you experience meditation as a discrete activity. You likely set aside a block of time, lie or sit down, ...
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Grace in the Gaps
While I have come across multiple definitions of the word grace, one that resonates with me is “the revealment of our true nature.” This revealment ...
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Creating a Sankalpa
Bypass New Year’s Resolutions and engage your heart by uncovering your sankalpa. The word “sankalpa’ comes from the combination of san, a connection to the ...
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The Most Important Conversations are via the Heart
The most important conversations we need to have with ourselves are often in a language we neither speak nor understand. They’re not in the language ...
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Completed iRest Level 2 Training
I am excited to announce that I completed the iRest level 2 training! And…it was WONDERFUL! Yoga Nidra is such a powerful practice and it ...
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Shaking it Off
A topic that resonates with me lately is how to shake off emotions and thoughts that don’t serve me. I have had a couple of ...
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iRest
I am super excited! Next week I will be starting my iRest level 1 certification. I find all yoga nidra styles very interesting and I ...
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Whats New for June?
Wow! A new format! Now, instead of popping into a theme each month, you will come to this search screen that enables you to easily ...
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Carin Back from Training
I returned yesterday from the Advanced Yoga Nidra training that I attended at the Amrit Yoga Institute in Florida. Wow. So amazing. It was great ...
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October Theme: It’s All in Your Head
Join me as we explore our ajna, or third eye, chakra in the Yoga Nidra Club during the month of October. This place in the ...
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Let Go
Many times when we are unable to stop managing and controlling things, its due to fear. Fear of not having enough money, fear of losing ...
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Mindfulness on Busy Days
So many people have noted lately that they are not listening to their meditations. The desire is there, but life seems too busy right now. ...
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Walking Meditation
By now you have hopefully tried your walking meditation. The goal is to assist you in becoming aware of, and part of your surroundings, not ...
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Gratitude Journal
I found a lovely online article on Gratitude journals and their benefits. I would normally summarize the contents prior to providing the link, but this ...
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Gratitude Bowl Ideas
So… have you created your gratitude bowl (see the Energy Tool tab)? Consider adding a stone you found on a walk, one that evokes memories ...
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Harness Your Spring Energy
Harness Your Spring Energy I don’t know about you, but I feel a boost of energy in the spring. I feel inspired to clean out ...
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Root & Bloom via Your Food Choices & Yoga Practice
This month, in our Yoga Nidra Club, we are focusing on rooting and blooming; ensuring our roots are firmly planted as we unfurl into spring. ...
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The Meaning of Luck
In preparation for my weekend yoga classes, I tried to think of a theme that tied to Saint Patty’s day — no small feat. I ...
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Balance
Everything in this life is a beautiful dance of balance. We need sunshine and we need rain. We need the social bonds of friendship and ...
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A Burning Platform
As most of you know, I host a Yoga Nidra Club. This is a subscription-based club that provides members online access to meditations, asana practices ...
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The Doing of Nothing
Did you happen to watch the Olympic snowboard half pipe competition? It was fascinating, considering the daring tricks each athlete performed, the run that resulted ...
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Mindfulness Hits the Mainstream
If you are an enthusiast of the latest leadership practices, you have likely noticed that mindful leadership is the topic of multiple books and is ...
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Heart (Attitudinal) Intention
How is your primary, or dharma intention coming along? Hopefully you have a version that is resonating with you and which you can use during ...
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Setting an Intention
The theme of our January page is intention setting. It’s a great way to start the year! Note that an intention is different than a ...
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Stay Centered During the Holidays
Its so easy during the holidays to let our lives be run my to do lists and our social calendar. Remember to enjoy it by ...
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Amrit Yoga Nidra Professional Certification
I am so excited that I want to share – I completed my 100 hour Amirt yoga nidra professional certification on Tuesday! The experience has ...
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The self and the Self
We all have that sense that we are something much deeper than what we can perceive with our five senses or mind. But any glimpse ...
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I AM
How many different descriptors do we place at the end of the sentence I am … ? Likely many of them are negative. Many are ...
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Benefits of Yoga Nidra
By now, you have hopefully enjoyed multiple long and short yoga nidra meditations. You may be noticing that you feel more grounded and centered. You ...
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8 Limbs of Yoga
The 8 Limbs of Yoga Yoga is a science designed to take you on the path to truly experiencing your true Self. Yoga means to ...
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