It's September in NC, and look who I found in my yard yesterday. May into June is bloom time for gardenias here. I always remember this because they remind me of my father-in-law's mother, and they are always in bloom between Mother's Day and Father's Day. So this lone beauty is a few months behind the typical schedule here, yet she's perfect. Oh, how I needed this sign. I'm homeschooling one of my children this year, and to say it's been challenging already is an understatement. But I'm not sure my kiddo is to blame. I think instead it might be that my expectations are out of whack. After all, my child has always done things HIS WAY. He is not someone who fits into any box, but my husband and I have surely tried everything we could all these years to help him fit at school. Ultimately, we saw this bright, curious, creative, exuberant child slip further and further behind, academically and socially. I knew I had to do something different. I gu...
My passion is gentle yoga because I feel it's a powerful way to inhabit the body with love. Through this practice, we learn to get out of our heads and into our hearts, and ultimately we are able to put more goodness out into the world. This is not a passive practice--on the contrary, it's quite active, engaged, committed, full, deep. We feel THIS GROUND beneath us, we feel THIS BREATH within us, and we are truly alive.