Persistent sitting and collapsed posture can have negative effects that can impact your overall health. Luckily there are quick exercises that we can do to reverse this habitual body pattern and improve your posture. Take two minutes to relieve tension in your upper back and shoulders with this fun and challenging exercise. Share with your colleagues and friends! #workplacewellness #chairyoga #mindfulness #posturecorrection

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle I love this quote by the philosopher Aristotle. While his example of habit is towards excellence, this would apply to anything we do with consistency. This goes for healthy and unhealthy habits, mindsets, emotions, thoughts, and basically everything else. If you practice habits that are healthy for you, you’ll be healthy in turn. If you’re consistently doing things that don’t serve you w

“The paths are many, the truth is one.” I believe that we’re all trying to ultimately get to the same place: happiness. It’s why we work, it’s why we toil, it’s why we learn, it’s why we seek fulfilling and supportive relationships. But we all don’t take the same path. For one reason or another, our path toward happiness can look different than even our closest friend’s. And sometimes… quite often in our culture, we lose the plot entirely. We get caught up in the rat race of

Have you ever just sat there and looked at the blank page, not knowing what to write or draw? This hesitance is sometimes called “creative block.” Like creative block, we can also freeze or be blocked when it comes to creating our lives. Making choices, changes, and decisions to move us forward in our lives, careers, and relationships can be difficult and, at times, debilitating. We so often decide to stick with the “devil we know” versus drawing something new in our lives. Y

Feeling achy and stiff in your shoulders? This powerful stretch will help to relieve tension that you don't even know you have! Take a few minutes now to save yourself grief later with this Deep Shoulder Stretch. I mentioned in my workplace wellness meditations this month that stretching and moving the body is one of the fastest ways to regulate both the mind and the nervous system. Paying attention to sensations in your body and your breath puts stopping points in cyclical t

When you have to climb a mountain, you begin with the first step... When we think about making changes and growing, it can feel like we have to climb the mountain in one big step. But, this is often not the case. Small goals, tasks, and choices are necessary and are a natural part of anyone’s growth. We have to work within our current ability and resources and over time the changes become evident. But how often do we avoid that first step, simply because the staircase seems

There’s a light in everyone, and not just metaphorically. Even physics says that we emit energy and light into the world (think infrared light). Back on the metaphorical plane, each of us brings something unique to the world - our own individual light. We think, see, and feel differently than the people around us, shaping our talents, interests, and actions. But how do we decide when and how to bring our light forward? Are we even aware of it? This can sometimes be confusing.

Feeling tired and stiff? Hunched over? Does your back hurt? Take less than two minutes and give yourself relief with this quick and fun spine release exercise! This release will help wake you up, give your mobility in your upper spine, relieve stress in your body and mind, and may even improve your mood. Find out more about my Workplace Wellness offerings here. #wellness #wellnessatwork #stressmanagemen t#yoga #relief #healthylifestyle #chairyoga #mindfulness #selfcare #healt

Where do you go when you don’t know where to go? How do you follow your own internal compass when your “true north” isn’t clear? Often when we feel existentially lost, we have to go inward and sort through our goals, desires, and feelings of fulfillment (or lack thereof) to discover what it is we truly want in life. To find direction. “True North” can be tricky because we have different parts of us that want different things. When I felt lost and hopeless, my counselor helped

Cha-cha-cha-changes… are both inevitable and can be the hardest part of navigating our lives. They’re especially difficult when we feel tugged along without will or agency about the direction we’re headed. While change is a constant, we do have the ability to guide where we go and how we progress. Additionally, we have the ability to decide how we want to be in relationship to change. I've always had a mixed relationship with change. Intrinsically, I love change. I love progr

The first step toward meaningful change can often be the hardest. We have external and internal blocks that keep us from reaching our potential, often shutting us down before we’ve even left the gate. Maybe we feel like we're too old to pivot. Maybe we feel like we've already invested too much into our current trajectory. Or maybe we're just comfortably uncomfortable in the routine we've created. This inertia can leave us feeling stuck and frustrated. At times like these, we

My new book, Essential Pranayama: Breathing Techniques for Balance, Healing, and Peace, is now available everywhere books are sold! Get your copy today! As I write, the world is facing the COVID-19 pandemic. The world is shutting down, going down to bare bone essential businesses, initiating social distancing and “shelter-in-place” mandates, and we’re all, rather forcibly, turning toward ourselves. The emotional, mental, and political climates change by the hour and we are al