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Meditation 101 | Who Has Time to Meditate Anyway?

What if you don’t live in the mountains and tend a garden for a living – how do you fit meditating into your real life? If you can believe it, my daily meditation practice started on my city bus commute to my office job. I put my headphones in, held my bag in my lapContinue reading “Meditation 101 | Who Has Time to Meditate Anyway?”

Yoga & Meditation 101 | Let’s Talk About Visualizing

In yoga, if you can picture the pose in your mind before your body begins to find it – the pose will flow so nicely for you. In meditation, visualization is a muscle I think we can all exercise – allowing you to tap into the creative well within you. In my humble opinion, theContinue reading “Yoga & Meditation 101 | Let’s Talk About Visualizing”

Meditation Monday | Best Case Scenario

Hello. This week we take a pause either at the start or midway through the day – to check the weather of our mind, come back to the present moment & visualize the best case scenario for the rest of our day. Imagine how you feel at the end of the day. Immerse yourself inContinue reading “Meditation Monday | Best Case Scenario”

Yoga 101 | So I learned a few yoga poses… now what?

Now that you have learned some yoga poses, what do you do with them? Here are some ideas: Learn a new yoga pose each week with me & expand the yoga poses that you know! I am so pleased to bring the “visual catalogue” of yoga poses to life over on my new page: #YPBContinue reading “Yoga 101 | So I learned a few yoga poses… now what?”

Meditation 101 | How Do You Begin Meditating?

& how on earth do you “empty the mind”?!?! Meditation does not require emptying the mind – first of all. After a decade of meditation practise, I recommend starting with guided meditations. They are still my favourite style of meditating because the worry of “what do I think about?” is removed. A guide will literallyContinue reading “Meditation 101 | How Do You Begin Meditating?”

Yoga 101 | Do I Need to be Flexible to Do Yoga?

When you think of yoga – does a pretzel shaped person in stretchy pants appear in your mind? The true goal of yoga is linking breath and movement, and this requires zero flexibility. The beauty of yoga is that it does increase your flexibility (& mobility!) with time and practise. However, the ability to standContinue reading “Yoga 101 | Do I Need to be Flexible to Do Yoga?”

Start Here

a fresh new series created With Love: Back to School for Yoga & Meditation Ah, the fresh fall beginning. With kids backpacks and lunchbags now coming out of retirement, and the school season has officially begun – the blog post series here is going back to basics. Let’s talk all things yoga and meditation, toContinue reading “Start Here”

Thoughts with Love Series Conclusion

The Thoughts with Love series comes to a close with my self-interview, to give you an idea of what it is I am trying to do over here on this corner of the internet. I wanted to fill you in on what brought me to yoga and meditation – and share why I find theseContinue reading “Thoughts with Love Series Conclusion”

Thoughts from Planning My Ideal Day

Thoughts with Love, a series. Last week I mentioned I sat down and wrote out what my ideal day would look like. It was from this vision that I shaped my current day to day schedule, and it helped me define my priorities. If you want to try this activity out too – you’re inContinue reading “Thoughts from Planning My Ideal Day”