Our family is big into the outdoors.  We love to camp, hike, fish, bike, and many other things.  We basically just love to explore mother nature.  Living in Utah has provided a plethora of beautiful country to see and experience!  Camping in our trailer is probably my...

I started teaching a free yoga class on Wednesdays at our local church about two months ago and have been enjoying teaching so much!  It was one of those things where you wonder if because you love to do, will you also love to teach…?  Well, victory my friends, because...

Remember a few posts ago, around the new year, when I talked about setting a New Year’s Theme?  Mine was to love big and live bold.  Well...it’s time to really cash in on that mantra for this post.  It’s time bring out the “big love.”  Big love for our bodies, that is....

I am in a really good place right now, which is such a relief because it was looking pretty bleak there for a little while.  The anxiety is not completely vanished, I don’t know if it will ever do that, but I feel much more like myself than I have in months.  I feel re...

Since my struggles with anxiety began, I am always on the lookout for more tools to keep in my “freedom from anxiety” toolbelt.  (I just came up with that term, but I am liking the sound of it!)  When you are aware of the possibility that anxiety can strike at any mome...

Okay, technically, this lesson didn’t come from my time on my yoga mat.  It came while I was hiking, but I’m putting it on here anyway because this lesson could have been learned during a yoga session, I just happened to get my epiphany on a mountain instead.  Hopefull...

Life Lesson:  Strength with yielding

In yoga you will find many poses that require a certain amount of strength.  Poses that require our muscles to engage and hold our bones in certain angles and positions.  You feel that fire and heat build the longer you are in said p...

I am starting a new segment on the blog titled Lessons From The Mat.  One of the things I love about yoga, and I love lots of things about yoga, is that beautiful life lessons can be found during your practice.  It’s insane how you can be mid vinyasa flow and then BAM!...