When Your Typical Methods Fail You: Dealing with Everyday Anxiety

Living with anxiety is no fun. It sucks the life out of you. Feeling like you are at the mercy of fear-based thoughts, worries, and overreactions is especially frustrating when you take good care of yourself. Even if you eat healthy, or go to the gym, or have lots of tools in your toolbox to […]

Bo Forbes on Yoga, Mindfulness, and Neuroscience

This post is part of a series about my experience at the SF Yoga Journal Conference in January 2014. Bo Forbes’ 2 hour session was packed with insightful research findings, tiny two minute tools (we’ll get to these in a second), and a new way of looking at yoga for healing. She shared the same sentiment as […]

Notes from the Yoga Journal Conference

I’ve always dreamed of attending one of the Yoga Journal conferences, and this year I received the best Christmas gift ever: a 4 day pass to the one in San Francisco! Super stoked, I perused through the course descriptions and started highlighting all my favorite yoga teachers’ classes. So many influential teachers and interesting workshops […]