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If you have attended any of my gentle yoga classes over the last few weeks, you know we have been discussing the eight limbs of yoga as laid out by The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.  The Yoga Sutras [...]

I often get asked just what vinyasa means by those who have explored my teaching schedule or taken one of my classes.  I use this word as, at this point in my teaching, it is easily my favorite [...]

Honestly, it should be cold this time of year in Vermont.  Yet, the mild winter we have been experiencing (those who do not ski read this “enjoying”) has made the recent drop in temperature a [...]

As we read through and listened to the The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali during training this past Saturday, I kept coming back to the second line; “Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the [...]

After demonstrating great confidence when practicing yoga with my family and friends, I have to admit last Thursday’s gentle class had me a little rattled.  From the moment I put my son on the [...]

We all have one, maybe more than one, but usually there is that one pose (asana) that no matter how many times we have tried it we just can’t seem to get into it the way we would like to.  For [...]

For my teacher training class this coming Saturday, we have been asked to demonstrate our favorite restorative pose. As indicated in my last post, I would like my classes to be about the needs of [...]

Where do I even start? I have so much running through my head from yesterday’s training I am finding it hard to put words to it all. I know I can say my first day was everything I had hoped for – [...]

This past Monday, I was struck by something my yoga teacher, Stephanie, said as she was closing her practice, “Recognize that you are exactly where you should be at this moment.”  Her words [...]

My story begins as it should with a driven, middle-school teacher turned stay-at-home heroine many simply call “Rach”. And while I may have been called Rae, RaeRae, Daughter, Sister, Friend, [...]