Bearing with wisdom all that we've seen over the year, standing like the autumn trees – tall, full, and colorful, we can give thanks for all the goodness, and we can also give thanks for the qualities of compassion, equanimity, and strength that allow us to meet the rest of it with honest grace.
Read moreGiving Thanks Through Yoga
In between festive meals, fire pit gatherings, or the beautiful quiet of solitude, treat yourself to a solo practice, or share your yoga with any friends or family present in your home.
Read moreGratitude
Heading into our second Covid-Times Thanksgiving, gratitude might seem abundant one moment and elusive the next.
Read moreMorning light
Early mornings can be sacred moments, wholly suspended in time, without the weight of technology, the volume of society, or the pressure of scheduled time.
Read moreLife is a balancing act
As we hone our skills to stand on one foot, to stretch for strength, to exhale at least as much as we inhale, we can keep our eyes and ears open for ways to live in balance during a time that seems anything but steady.
Read moreIt's easy to find a good teacher at Sun & Moon
A good yoga teacher nurtures a community of explorers, breathers, embodiers, and embracers of life, of self, of spirit.
Read moreCome Stretch With People Again
As caretakers of this diverse and storied tradition, 21st century yoga practitioners also have their hands full. We’re reckoning with social, economic, environmental, and political upheaval in the not-unrelated midst of a 20-month-old pandemic that has its fingerprints in all aspects of life.
Read moreShall We Dance?
Whether we feel it or not, we are always dancing. Next time the self-critical creep of laziness leaps to mind, get wise to its misinformed ways. Grant yourself permission to sit still, or lie on the ground, or wander aimlessly on a wooded path, and allow yourself to feel the inner dance of simple life
Read moreSharing the burden and the bounty
Though illness (and its remedies) is often treated as an individual experience, the pandemic's persistent interruption to our lives in 2021 is monumentally larger than any one person, and its shared collective burdens are significant.
Read moreWe're full of welcomes and gratitude this fall
Welcome to the taste of a cool, crisp morning. Gratitude for sunshine and breathable air. Welcome to new beginnings and hope for brighter seasons ahead. Gratitude for vaccines and masks to keep ourselves and each other safe and healthy.
Read moreSavoring the last bits of summer
Living in the mid-Atlantic region, we have the gift of defined seasons and their quarterly lessons in impermanence. A mainstay of this lesson is the reminder to appreciate what is, rather than wishing for what was or what's to come.
Read moreBreathing Through a Big Change
Like a chrysalis that quietly grows eyes, legs, and wings for its transformation, our vibrant Fairfax community is poised to make a graceful butterfly's landing in a new Fairfax City home in 2022. It is there that we will once again—safely and compassionately—come together in person to practice, celebrate, and honor the lessons of impermanence, non-attachment, and gratitude.
Read moreWe're Like Fireflies
The quiet space of contemplative ease is like a sturdy oak tree, standing in patient wait for us to land and soak in its magnificence.
Read moreCome see us on Langston Boulevard!
Wellness doesn't stop at our private garden gate. The pain and suffering of one among us is the responsibility of all of us.
Read moreLet Freedom Ring
Practicing non-attachment means remaining undefined by time, space, or external circumstance. It is a state of unconditional freedom that allows our deepest self to fly gracefully on the wings of impermanence as they take us to heights of sorrow and peaks of joy, sometimes in the same day.
Read moreBeyond the Binary
This week we noted the summer solstice, honoring the longest stretch of sunshine, while large swaths of the country across the south and the west wither under scorching heat, a flame lit and fanned by unbridled consumption and disregard for the decades-old warnings of climate science.
Read moreA common purpose
I spent last Saturday helping my dear friend Suzanne Morgan build a meditation labyrinth at her West Virginia yoga and healing center, Moon Meadows Farm. A group of us gathered on the hottest day of the year, hydrated and sunscreened, and set to work. We carted, lugged, lifted, placed, and blessed over 2,000 rocks in a 96-foot spiral path that sits in a meadow's clearing at the edge of a tree line in the Shenandoah Valley. The Blue Ridge mountains rose gloriously in the distance, reminding us where those rocks were born.
Read moreBeing Open
While many of us have continued posture and breathing yoga practices to help us feel open throughout the pandemic, the felt sense of "openness" seems even more accessible when the broader environment mirrors it.
Read morePreserving a Fragile Ecosystem
We’ve known for a long time that we live in a fragile social ecosystem, often confusing which gates to open wider and which ones to keep shut. The pandemic and social upheaval of 2020 pushed this fragile balance into sharp relief. As yoga practitioners, our call hinges on keen discernment of actions that will serve the cause of connection for the most while causing harm to the fewest.
Read moreSmiling On the Outside
We are learning that pandemic life has no on/off switch, nor an instruction manual with delineated steps. But we will have small victories along the way, as each phase moves us forward into safer, sweeter times.
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