Clothes come in different sizes, food comes in different flavors, and humans come in different shapes. Why then should we expect every person to do yoga postures the same way?
Read moreChange your outlook
Humans flourish when we expose ourselves to diverse experience: our worldview expands when we live, learn, and work in diverse communities; our digestion works better when we eat a wide variety of food; our bodies are more balanced when we move in lots of different ways; and our spirits are lifted when we lay our eyes on fresh landscapes.
Read moreTexting, typos, and making connections
The beauty here is that our brains are programmed to put the pieces – or the letters – together. It's the same neurological mercy that prevents us from having to re-learn to brush our teeth each morning, or check a recipe every time we want to boil water to make tea. It frees up the mental and emotional space to learn and process the big stuff: how to live through a pandemic; how to know if we're in love; how to appropriately mourn losses and celebrate gains.
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Donations for Ukrainian refugees
The photo above is a mountain of care! We are so grateful to our community for heeding the call to help. If you're reading this before April 14, there's still time to bring blankets and any gently used coats, including springtime raincoats, and new socks to the studio, or contribute to the shopping fund; volunteers will gather to pack boxes on April 22-23 – sponsored by the Northern Virginia Regional Commission – click here to learn more about how to donate or volunteer.
Read moreWhat do we have in common with a cherry blossom?
Those tender blossoms were beautiful, and even more so, relatable. Like us, they seem to have a destiny for presence, an insistence on showing up against adverse odds, and an innate shine that creates small brightness in dark times.
Read moreWhat's Your Dosha?
We all have a special combination of these _doshas_ that make us unique. Each of us has all three _doshas_ within us, and using a minivan analogy for our constitutional makeup, we could say that one _dosha_ is usually in the driver’s seat, one in the middle row, and one in the back row.
Read morePrayers for Peace, Ingredients for Connection
If your heart is breaking, if your gut is clenched in fear, if your thoughts are hot with anger, take some long breaths and bid a grateful welcome to your beautiful, interconnected soul.
Read moreVenture Into the Stream
Everybody needs a slipstream once in a while, like a tired cyclist drafting behind a fellow rider, hopping aboard a current of flow created by another body when our own inner resources are depleted or MIA.
Read moreSense and Sensibility
Emotion and vivid memory are engines with powerful sensory ignitions – play me one bar of Madonna's "Get Into the Groove," and I'm instantly back in 1985, dancing in a dive bar in Syracuse with a lacy bow in my permed hair and a dozen black rubber bracelets climbing up my sleeve.
Read moreIf Cancer Comes Knocking
The only thing missing in our whole experience of her illness and loss was the knowledge we have today of how modern medical research has proven all the ways in which yoga tools can be a powerful part of a cancer treatment, care, and recovery plan.
Read moreCome Brumate With Us
Brumation could be defined as a state of productive inactivity in a cozy spot during cold weather. For a snake, that cozy spot might be a hibernaculum in a sturdy rock wall; for a turtle, perhaps a burrow in the mucky bottom of a pond. For a human, that cozy spot can be a yoga mat (or soft rug, or even a bed) surrounded by blankets and pillows.
Read moreStay Gentle
In service of staying hopeful, we can do wonders for our bodies as they get older and wiser by tending to our joints with sweet and attentive movement.
Read moreYoga On Every Corner
Before the pandemic, I used to muse about the proliferation of yoga studios popping up on every corner, wondering how it would shake out economically and socially, wondering if yoga communities would disperse to the point of evaporation. Then Covid happened.
Read moreCreeping Quietly Into 2022
Personal ritual certainly has its role in navigating life – a prayer in the bathtub can never hurt – but time is the only thing we can reliably count on to carry us forward, and it doesn't serve us to bargain or argue with its pace.
Read moreA special holiday greeting
Enjoy this short video holiday greeting wishing you bright lights and beautiful moments this holiday season, from the Sun & Moon family to yours.
Read moreShining light on the shortest day
The difference between succumbing to the darkness and lifting a hopeful gaze to the light is the quality of attention we pay to any given moment. It is light, after all, that creates shadow in the first place, and if we linger long enough in any moment, its shadows will point us to the beam shining at every tunnel's end.
Read moreGetting in tune
As our fall season winds to a close on Sunday Dec 19, take some time to TUNE IN between then and the new year. Our annual holiday tune-in schedule is back, with some fun and festive opportunities to get in just the right amount of yoga while the rest of holiday activity swirls around.
Read moreThank you for voting us Best Yoga Studio!
Thank you so very much to our wonderful community for once again voting us BEST YOGA STUDIO in Arlington Magazine's reader survey!
Read moreMaking friends with the cold
As we enter into Winter Number Two of Who Knows What, let us help you find support and inspiration from an accessible, refreshing, mindful practice.
Read moreHow do we know what we know?
Yoga offers insights into consciousness that help us sort our present world perceptions. With discernment and equanimity, we can avoid sliding into habitual negativity and misunderstanding.
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