The transition from summer to fall has a lot of personal emotion attached to it BUT it’s hard to deny the natural beauty around us here in the Northeast. As October turns to November the leaves are colorful and gorgeous, and our sidewalks are covered in these leaves. The weather gets crisp and cool but warm still from the sun, it’s really hard not to love it. I go into it with hesitation, but when it’s in full swing, I fully embrace it. Maybe it’s because the early fall symbolizes the loss of our first child Silas, while the late fall symbolizes the birth of our son Zephyr. This later fall time makes me really happy and I LOVE celebrating it with my yoga kids. So I continue the leaf meditations way into the later part of fall when the leaves are really covering the earth and some trees are… Read More »
Breathing through Transitions
As we transition from summer to fall, from summer break to school, to new schedules, the month of September is just busy. I had days where I just didn’t have time to eat! That is so rare for me, I am never one to skip meals, but the new schedule made it hard for me to pre-plan and I was in go mode. Some days didn’t end until after 9:00pm at night. Sometimes it feels like I’m holding my breath as I move from activity to work to pick up to soccer to teach to meetings to phone calls to making dinner to cleaning up to just about everything. This month is also particularly hard because it is the anniversary of the birth and loss of our first born son Silas. It’s just a heavy time, and the weight is real. Luckily for me, I know how to breathe, and I… Read More »
The Very Busy Spider Yoga
The other night, Zephyr picked the book “The Very Busy Spider” by Eric Carle as one of the books for me to read him before bed. I have used many of the Eric Carle books for yoga, but this one I hadn’t used in a really long time. Zephyr and I thought it would make the perfect kids yoga class for his preschool class where I was teaching the next day. It also fits in perfectly with all the gardening and beautiful almost summer weather around here. It also gave me an excuse to teach the kids how beneficial spiders are for our yards and to just leave them and let them do their thing- eating all the pests like flies and mosquitoes! It was a great lesson, but not without a few moans and groans from the Kindergartners I taught later that day- there is LOTS of web spinning… Read More »
