Hi Harlem Yogis! Between Passover and Spring Break - April really exploded out of the gate. If you celebrated Passover, Easter, or Eid - I hope your celebration was joyful and expansive. These early-April holidays commemorate very different traditions, yet they share a beautiful common thread. Each arrives with the season of renewal and expansion. Each, in its own way, is a celebration of freedom. A shaking off of the shackles of winter. In Yoga - this Expansion is known as Ayama. To...

March is the threshold — the quiet turning from Winter toward Spring. A season of transition. And with any transition, we are invited to pay attention. To appreciate what is ending and create space for what is beginning. To honor the time it takes for one state to gently become another. This weekend in Teacher Training, our anatomy teacher spoke about how the body itself transitions — how muscle gradually becomes tendon, tendon becomes bone — not in abrupt lines, but through seamless,...

Happy February Yogis! ! Happy Tuesday! (And happy first day above 30 degrees!) We made it through a long, dark, cold January, and I think we all deserve a little credit for that. This time of year always invites reflection. As winter slowly loosens its grip, I have been thinking about how much our relationship to time, growth, and love evolves as we move through life. February is my birthday month, and for most of my life, I struggled with birthdays. I famously cried on my eighteenth...