When was the last time you spent time in nature? Summertime is such an incredible invitation to get outside and play - hiking, biking, walking, canoeing, swimming, meditating, reading, painting, photographing, climbing trees, hugging trees….There is SO much to do and you don’t have to be active, you can just sit with it. Have you ever hugged a tree? Have you ever sat and listened to a tree? The most primal act I can think Read More
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3 Little Things that Make a BIG Difference
How can finding peace within your Self seem so complicated? Why do we push ourselves all day, day after day, until we are sick or so disconnected that we don’t recognize ourselves? Life is so simple, we complicate it. Connecting to peace within ourselves is also really simple, we just have to train ourselves to stop. Really? Yes. Just Stop! Like that red light up ahead, start braking now before you have to slam on Read More
How I Became Nitya
I know in that way of knowing something without actually knowing it that I have always been a deeply spiritual person. As a child my religion was nature and my church. They both opened my heart and gave me a freedom of soul that I craved without realizing I was craving it. It was just something I innately gravitated towards. There was a long empty period of my life when I did not have a Read More
10 Year Anniversary of Teaching Yoga
April marks the 10th anniversary of my being certified as a yoga instructor. This is a momentous and significant commemoration of the journey I have been on as I have grown into becoming Nitya. That first day of teacher training was my birthday, October 21, 2004, and it came at a time in my life when I was hungry for the next step. I came by the tuition through a Feng Shui job in Baltimore Read More
A Child’s Journey into Yoga
It was back in September of 2012, my daughter was attending Sabot at Stony Point and in 7th grade. After I dropped her off for school I would spend many mornings for about a month parked on the campus grounds to write what would become A Child’s Journey into Yoga. It was effortless, as if the pencil had a life of its own, as if the words were coming to me from Sri Swami Satchidananda himself. At Read More