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Hypermobility and Protecting Your Joints in Yoga
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Hypermobility and Protecting Your Joints in Yoga
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It’s important to take care of your joints when you practice yoga. Check out this incredible Q&A post featuring insight from a doctor of physical therapy about how to avoid injury, especially if you are hypermobile.

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Getting Started with Your Yoga Practice
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Getting Started with Your Yoga Practice
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Need some support with your yoga practice? I’ve got you. ;)

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Vulnerable is Good
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Vulnerable is Good
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Yoga is designed to help us open.

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Juicing and Summer Smoothies
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Juicing and Summer Smoothies
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A few refreshing juice and smoothie recipes I love, plus my favorite local spots.

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Breathing
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Breathing
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A simple breathing technique to bring some calm into your day.

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A Powerful Book on Meditation
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A Powerful Book on Meditation
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Read this book for a profound, ancient meditation practice that can help you open your heart.

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Yoga for First Responders: Yoga Teacher Training
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Yoga for First Responders: Yoga Teacher Training
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I am STOKED about the Yoga for First Responders teacher training I’ll be completing later this month! It’s going to be a life-changing experience… here’s more info about what the training entails, and how you can support me on this next adventure.

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10 Things to Do When You're Going through a Life Change
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10 Things to Do When You're Going through a Life Change
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What comforts you when you’re going through a big change?

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Left Nostril Breathing (Ida)
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Left Nostril Breathing (Ida)
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Breathing in and out through the left side of your nose is a potent, simple way to calm your energy.

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Planning a Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class
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Planning a Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class
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You’ve completed your yoga teacher training. Now, to plan a class…

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Throwback to one of my first ever shoots 😍💥💛 Reflecting on how beautiful life is. Time passes. Things change. Things become difficult, then ease arrives, always an undulation between challenge and sweetness. All along, life is beautiful 💛💛💛 #yoga #aliveinthefire
Feelin' it 🔥🔥🔥😏😻❤️ I love this photo because it represents a lot of personal growth for me ☺️💪 When I first started doing photo shoots 5 years ago, I felt nervous every time. Often I would reschedule or cancel a shoot right before it was supposed to happen, with these thoughts in the back of my head-- "I'm not good at this" or "I'm not that pretty." ✨ When I did shoot, I felt OK about doing the yoga poses and as long as I could pretend the photographer wasn't in the room, I could breathe my way through. It still felt vulnerable, but I could manage the nerves. ✨ Standing in front of the camera looking right into the lens? NOT easy for me, back then. 😳 My self-doubts and self esteem issues would pop up: do I look ok? Is my skin broken out? Is my smile natural? Do I look gross? ✨ Now I recall those thoughts and I just shake my head. Building confidence has taken time, and it makes me sad to think about the periods in my life when I didn't value myself the way I do now. ✨ But healing requires time, and commitment! And I've done it. I put in the work, and asked the big questions about where the self doubt stems from, and learned what I'm made of. I have learned how strong and beauuuuuuutiful and sexy I am. Inside out. Healing the deeper wounds and re-writing the story of my own self worth 🙏💪 And now-- like in this photo-- when I step in front of the camera to do a photo shoot, I show up as my whole self. I step into my power and my confidence and I FEEL that. And I can look at the camera and let myself be seen. 😉🔥 And, it's fun! It gives me a chance to express, to move, to learn about my body in new ways, and to see myself differently. 😻❤️ I highly suggest being photographed... especially if you're feeling low self esteem! Especially if you've experienced body dysmorphia and you're overly concerned with your appearance. If you're a perfectionist. If you look in the mirror and feel sad or hopeless or disappointed. All of those things can be worked through, and healed. 💛 Loving yourself...it isn't always easy. It can take time. Believe me, I understand. 🙏 So if you're in that process, and you're healing-- please know that I support you. I see you. ✨
SPARK 💥 I wrote this book as a bold way of embracing vulnerability. 🔥 Each page reflects on loss, and how we overcome it. Written out of a difficult period in my life, I re-read these pages and am grateful for how they helped me process my emotions 💛 FUN FACT: All of the images in the book are selfies taken on a timer! 😂🤙 This was a fun way to play around with movement and to explore my own body image and areas of self acceptance and self love when it comes to my body 💛🙏💛 Here are some reflections from one reader, about SPARK: "A book of empowerment and reclamation. What I found in Spark was an incredibly brave woman unafraid of unleashing the well of torment and darkness, shedding it through photo and poem with each page. She accepts herself despite the scars. She is willing and capable of letting herself be shown at such a raw, visceral moment in her life. It shows how she still feels beautiful and strong despite all of the pain. It's a behemoth of a book in terms of healing." 🔥Thank you to each of you who has supported me in sharing this book! It continues to leave me feeling vulnerable *AF* and ten times as grateful. 😊🙏 #aliveinthefire #spark #sparkbook #poetry #blackandwhiteportrait #blackandwhitephotography
Doubt your doubts. 🔥🔥🔥 #yoga #aliveinthefire #joshuatreedesert
Intuitively, our bodies know exactly what they need in order to heal. 😊💥 But here's the thing: you have to make time to listen. To slow down and receive the wisdom. To act on what your body is telling you. ✨ Some of the time lately I've been running so fast and hard that I don't do this. Some days my yoga practice is scattered and I'm distracted. And so today, I'm creating space for me. Just me. My breath. My body. The parts that are calling out to me (my left wrist and left knee have been ache-y). I will be slowing down and checking in with the emotions I've been wanting to stuff away-- the lonely part of me that's always checking my phone, the nervous part of me that's uncertain about change. The broken parts of my heart that recall the past, and the deep wound of sometimes feeling like I'm not good enough. 💛 All of it can heal. All of it IS healing. I trust it. I honor and cherish it. I access this wisdom through my body, fully stepping into my power and my identity as a healer. I am more connected to my purpose than ever, and moving through life from that space. 💛✨😊🙏 #yogaforhealing #yoga #aliveinthefire #healing #backbend #dharmayogawheel
In one week I will be in Texas for my Yoga For First Responders training! 😍🚑🚒🚓💪💥 In my 10 years of practicing yoga -- and 5 years teaching -- I've grown to learn how difficult and messy the healing process can be. ✨ Yoga saved my life, and has kept me going during many dark moments. I know how powerful this practice is. 💥 Now is the time for me to level up my training and help bring yoga to more people. Real life, boots on the ground yoga. No BS. Practical tools, proven techniques, ways to optimize and build resilience. 🙏 Depression and suicide and PTSD are real, and are rising at alarming rates. Yoga is a tool that can help, and I plan to bring it to as many people as possible, especially those in great need. This is my path and this is my practice... And now is the time. 💥 If you're interested in supporting me during my training, please reach out. I appreciate all of those in my life who are holding space for me as I travel next week and complete the training. Namaste. 😊🙏 @yogaforfirstresponders #yoga #healing #ptsd #trauma #yogaforhealing #firstresponders #yogateacher #yogateachertraining #ytt #excited #grateful #aliveinthefire
This is all here for you. 🔥 This life of yours? It is sacred by design. Each breath. 🔥 You do not have to know. You do not have to hold on. 🔥 Your strength: it is in your surrender. The gentle breeze. The calm water. 🔥 The light falling through the trees, the way it shimmers. None of it is yours to cling to. Without forcing, without gripping, you arrive to what's happening now, where your heart already sees the way through.🔥 The world opens to you. It is your not knowing that helps you stay open. Keep returning. Keep arriving. 🔥 Stay open. 📸: @carindorghalli 🙏 Leggings by @fitrebelapparel
Go where your dreams take you. 🖤🔥🦋 #aliveinthefire