An Open Heart Lifts Me Up
If you’ve ever been in class with me, you know my practice is far from Yoga Journal cover worthy. I find myself out of alignment more often than in alignment, which in so many ways, has been emblematic of my life for the past few years. Honestly, I’m not sure if I was...
Just Doing it
My first yoga studio was in a converted garage behind the food co-op where my roommate worked. My teacher, Michael Fahey, was an Irish carpenter who reminded me of the soccer coaches of my youth. He was encouraging, preached the gospel of alignment, and would occasionally join us at the bar next door for dinner...
February Challenge Day 29: A Beginning
It is the last day of the OM Yoga February Challenge, and there is excitement in the air as Challengers pass the front desk, and the imaginary finish line to take their final class. One Challenger has described their experience as “transformative” while another expressed how the pain “hurt so good.” Participants have learned how...
February Challenge Day 8: Mind and Matter
I am in love with my morning coffee. I use the term “in love” seriously here. It is my moment, my ritual that I must perform every morning in order to proceed. It’s not actually the caffeine- I promise! Rather it is the gentle process of brewing that perfect, rich cup, the aroma of the...
February Challenge Day 1: Chasing the Glow
The strangest part about being out of shape is the subtle pleasure I seem to be getting out of it. I have always been active. I began my dance training at a young age and grew up in a mountain community where I learned how to strap on a pair of skis before I could...
The Simple Truth
The “McDonaldization of yoga.” The “Wall Streeting of Meditation.” I’m hearing these terms a lot lately. In fact, that is how one studio owner described what she saw as the desecration of these thousands year old practices. I have also watched the uproar a recent New York Times article created by speaking to the physical...
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YIN Yoga
Over the years my practice has become slower and gentler. It could be
just my personality, or my age - after all I have been on this earth
for over 42 years now.
When I took my first YIN yoga workshop 6 years ago, it was quite
sensational, but didn't stick as a regular practice...
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Yoga in a pinch
I have recently discovered the crazy fun-filled adventure known as traveling with work. Multiple flights in a week – sometimes even in a day – crunched schedules, crammed seats and more. Days end with an exhausted, tense body. All I wish is that I could press ‘pause’, head to OM, and refresh myself with a...
Cross Training
I , like many other new yorkers, left my apartment a few weeks ago to watch the marathon. A close friend of mine was running and I was excited to cheer him on. By the end of the race, I was inspired to go running. I jokingly turned to my fiancé and told him I...
Vinyasa in the Produce Aisle
Hippie fascist. This may seem like a contradiction in terms but if you are, or have been in the past, a Park Slope Food Coop member, this might be your description of the regime that monitors your work slot attendance. To...
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“Mamma, What Are You Doing?!”
One morning, my 3 year old daughter Alice woke up early, wandered into our darkened living room, and found me sitting quietly in the middle of the rug. She asked, loudly and worriedly, “Mama, what are you doing?!” She’d never seen me meditate before and was truly puzzled. I told her, “I’m sitting and paying...
Ah-ha Moments
I remember trying to do Utkatasana about 5 years ago when I started yoga. I hated it. It hurt my ankles, my arms shook from being held up so long, and I would secretly pray it wouldn’t be a part of practice before each class. Then, a teacher came over, and told me to tuck...
OM yoga Class Gives Hope to Breast Cancer Survivors (video)
About a dozen women stretch out on their yoga mats at a studio near Union Square, waiting for class to begin. Some lie back and breathe deeply in a meditative state, while others chat quietly, catching up with friends.
Though these women smile and laugh often, the topics of some of their conversations are anything but...
How Yoga Helped Me Heal From Cancer
Among the many things I had to face when I was diagnosed with breast cancer was the prospect of not being able to continue my yoga practice. I began going to yoga about five years ago. When I started, I mostly thought of it as a way to balance out running. Something I’ve done for...
OM yoga Teacher Training with Cyndi – Japan, NYC, Germany & Switzerland
It’s pretty cool that so many people are resonating with the way that I teach and practice yoga. Over the years of my own practice, the OM yoga method naturally evolved as an integration of what I’d been drawn to: dance, meditation, yoga alignment principles and a yearning for more understanding and experience of what...
OM Yoga Playlist – Volume 4
You’ll give in to The Temptations and savor some Green Onions as you enjoy this edition of the OM Yoga playlist. Click the links for samples… 1. One of These Mornings Moby 2. Green Onions Booker T. & the MG’s 3. For Annabelle Band of Horses 4. My Sweet Lord Yim Yames 5. Spacewalker...
“How 7 Simple Days Restored Me to Sanity.”
On September 25th 2009, I found myself in a very strange place. It wasn’t anywhere I would have chosen to go and it’s not anywhere I recommend anyone visit. I was at home with my just-turned-one-year-old son and my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, as a single parent. I might have been in shock when the door closed...
