by Elise | Feb 29, 2016 | 30words30days, community, Creativity, dharma, guru, om, Personal Growth, sanskrit, shakti, spanda, Susanna Harwood Rubin, Sutra 1.23, writing, Yoga
This month I have the pleasure of taking part in a writing experiment. Susanna Harwood Rubin, a yoga teacher and writer on the East Coast, is prompting students every day with a new Sanskrit word to explore with a few of their own words. I’m less than a week...
by Elise | Aug 19, 2015 | 2nd Chakra, Anxiety, back pain, Buns of Steel, calm your mind, classes, Creativity, Depression, Empowerment, Health, Love, mantra, meditation, mindful, Nervous System, online yoga, Poses, Posture, pranayama, Rejuvenate, Relaxation, rest, Root Chakra, yoagdownload, Yoga
Believe it or not there’s more to yoga than tying your foot behind your head, balancing on one finger or strutting a tight butt. My new Yoga for Chakras series on yogadownload.com can be consciously used to mitigate a host of physical, mental and emotional...
by Elise | Apr 17, 2014 | breath, Creativity, Empowerment, Love, Yoga
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will...
by Elise | Jan 19, 2014 | 2nd Chakra, back pain, Birth, community, Creativity, Denver, Doula, Fertility, gift of health, Health, Jessica Patterson, Pele, Pigeon Pose, Poses, Posture, Prenatal Massage, Prenatal Yoga, Resiliency, Sacrum, Sexuality, SI Joint, Sutra 1.23, Swadhistana, Yin Yoga, Yoga, Yoga Sutras
A new friend recently asked me what my most unusual job has been. After running down a few odd positions I’ve held in my past, (did you know I spent a year as a Glitter Fairy?) I landed on the rewarding work of being a doula, or birth assistant. This doula work was...
