A Yogi Kitchen Off The Mat

Play is really shifting us and I want to ask you how did you plan on feeling this week and how’s it going? We’re all noticing how play is shifting our brains. How about you? Have you been playing?

A new series! It’s the Monday morning meeting. It’s a week of pop-ups! Hear what we’re doing this week, what we’re thinking for the near fiture. So many exciting things coming!

How are you sinking into Play? Play is a powerful word. This is how it’s shifting us.

How often do you play? Do you feel like you resist playing until you deserve it? It’s time to grab your journal. It’s time to be present with how you resist play. THEN, it’s time to get down to it and PLAY!

It’s Friday and I always invite you to celebrate the wins on Fridays. AND we have a new word for a new session! Let’s Play!

We spent a long yoga session focusing on Seva, or selfless service from the heart. How did it change you? Here’s how it changed some of our regular family members and how it changed me. Help me brainstorm our focus for our next session.

Are you feeling this big shift? Or is it just me? I feel a huge shift with the spring-like weather and i am wide open for it. Want to get more open? Practice Seva with me. It will crack your heart wide open.

How can you connect to the best parts of yourself?Fika and Seva, along with the Thruve Challenge are shifting us n big ways. Will you join us and connect with the best parts of yourself.

We’re focusing on Seva or selfless service from the heart this session. Let’s up your service game. At A Yogi Kitchen we’re cooking more, delivering more food and starting seedlings.

Seva, or selfless service is a core practice is yoga. How do you step outside of your inner circle and show your heart? This session we’re committing to a practice of Seva. That’s the next 8 weeks to open your heart, feel happier and connect to your purpose and meaning. It’s one of my favorite Off The Mat practices. 💚

We took a week off. Here’s why and how we’re moving forward. This week is identifying what you know to do.

How do you thrive? I invite to consider that slowing down to enjoy the good things is a way to thrive. This Swedish concept, Fika, is our guide through the next 30 days. What does slowing down feel like? Does it scare you? Imagine how thrive feels with me.

It’s a new year and we have a new focus. What’s your word for the year? We are focusing on slowing down and thriving. Imagine what that looks like for you? How does it feel in your body, mind and heart? Dream with me about a year that you Love!

We’ve learned so much about Rest this year and we’re not stopping here. It’s time to open our hearts and create space for others. They deserve the richness of rest, just like you do. So, let’s start sharing with this new card that we’re embracing. Share with your loved ones, embrace people you don’t know well and reach a hand out to strangers.

It’s been a while since I’ve led you through setting intention. So today lie down and let’s focus on Home. Let us look at the week and set set yourself up for a successful week. Rest, nap, take baths and walks. Feel Hoke body, mind, heart

Home can be more than one place in your life. It can even be a person. Where do you feel Home? Here are the places u feel Hime. AND our Goulding fundraiser, Thrive Challenge and burning Bowl.

Sink into Home this session. Feel the power of Home in your living space, in your body and in your heart. Take that power and share the love this holiday season. We’re supporting a local family. How can you help? Join us!

Home. Say it to yourself. Home. Feel your body shift? Home. What does that feel like to you? It’s about more than where you fall asleep at night. Breathe.

As you move into the busiest part of the year, with more obligations, more family I encourage you to remember You Are Enough Now.. It’s time to deprogram from grind culture and slow down, even with all the pressure to do more. You can do it, just slowly.

I am overwhelmed with a heart full of gratitude and privilege. So let’s pause here. Just two classes this week and we’re moving quickly towards the end of the year!!!

Let’s do a check-in. It’s been a minute. This centering meditation is not what most people consider meditating. Do a check-in with me and get quiet, slow down and Thrive!

An update and a new word for our short yoga session. Let’s Thrive this month. What does that look like for you? Did you know that it means to invest in your health and well-being. What does that look like? Let’s slow down.

It is your birthright. You do not need to be exhausted, overwhelmed or at your breaking point to need rest. You were born needing rest and you still do. They only thing that changed as you became an adult was the messaging. Say it to yourself. Rest does not have to be earned.

Every week I pick a card from Tricia Hersey’s Rest Deck, a tool for getting razor sharp about what’s important to you. A deck like this is magical. It calls out to you and calls you out. Join me to experience the brilliance of Hersey and do the work around Rest with me.

Rest is a place of abundance and freedom . Imagine what that feels like in your body. How is rest changing you? Come with us to a place where your body and your mind connect.

Rest has created even more Ease, convincing me that Rest is our answer. Join us to practice Rest thru August.

Every week I invite you to celebrate. On Fridays we celebrate the wins from the week. What are you celebrating? What went right this week? Little or big, make sure you take a moment to pay attention.

Earning rest is a weird concept, right? But we all do it. In this episode I talk about how I sometimes feel like I need to keep up and why I know that’s not true.

Shifts, wobbles and changing within poses and from day to day are normal and expected. How to take those experiences and the lessons from them and plug them into your life. I’m sharing my process as I’m navigating the waters after my mom’s stroke.

I talked a lot about being present and the cope Ahead skill, but really the most useful yoga skill/tool to help care for my mom is gratitude. Practice gratitude as often as you can!

My mom had a stroke. I’m in Chicago taking care of her with my siblings. I am staying present in the moment and I’m Coping Ahead all at the same time. Today I’m thinking about how being a yogi is helping me manage and how it’s benefitting my mom.

It’s the magical month of June and I am celebrating! Are you? Oh! And it’s Friday when we celebrate the wins. An attempt at a shorter episode.

Rest is Resistance is resonating so deeply with me and changing who I am. It’s taking the ideas and moving them into my heart and throughout my heart. How about you? How are you Resting? How is it changing you?

Okay, it’s a week late, but it’s finally here. Grief Journal Day 2. And since it’s Friday, we’re CELEBRATING! What are your wins today? #grief #celebrate #yogalife #mindfulness #intention #loss

We’re starting Grief Journal Week while focusing on celebrating the wins and sinking into Rest. Whew! But you know what? It all fits together when we’re mindful and intentional about our rest. How are you sinking into it?

How does the word Rest feel to you? I’m your body/heart/mind. Rest is a radical act. Rest is Resistance. Do you resist it? Does it resonate with you? Also, I tried recording and driving. I’d say it was a fail. Well, faul might be a strong word, but here it is.

My insights into our session of focusing on non-judgment. It expanded way beyond what I anticipated. I found out what is and what isn’t my business. . .

Chipping away at judgment and working towards a place of non-judgment. How moving towards the middle path helps you find a place where there is no good or bad. What does that look like for you?

Let’s stop talking to ourselves in ways that we’d never talk to other people. Learn a few ways to re-frame your self-talk to be more present with what is and step away from judgments about worthiness.

We’re focusing on Ahimsa this session and the first part is to breathe into Non-Judgment. How are you talking to yourself? Your homework this week is to just notice. Vm be.

Where is the Ease? Can it be in pizza? And how? I learned to release into the joy of making pizza for you. That’s where the Ease is for this Pizza Party fundraising project. The lessons of ease and pizza have been huge for me.

Are you constantly striving for perfection. Are you always looking for the A? It can be exhausting, right? Join me and settle into the C+ Ease of life. Also, don’t forget to. Lee rate!

Daydreaming is good so sink into the Ease of brain health. Breathe i into your word for the year and imagine what a year where you really commit to it can look like.

I am committing deeply to self-care and here’s why. Our word for the session is Ease. I’m learning how self-care takes you straight to Ease and makes your whole life fit together better.

Happy Friday, dear hearts. On Fridays we celebrate! We’re also focusing on the word Ease this session. How are you celebrating the Ease in your life today? I invite you to breathe into how you celebrate. What does celebration mean to you? A bottle of wine? A pint of ice. Ream? How can that idea shift and expand?

What's the difference between Easy and Ease? Sinking into community, recognizing that we're all one and using skills like Smile and Share. These areall ideas that I find help me feel ease. I feel my shoulders relax and my brain release worrisome thoughts when I engage in these ways. What do you have? I love getting your feedback and observations. How is Ease making your life better?

What does the word Ease mean to you? Listen to your heart as you say the word Ease. Does it sound yummy and relaxing? Does it make you edgy and agitated? Does it bring up negative Constantine like laziness? Let’s dig into it!

We’re in Week 52! This is my favorite week of the year, a place between looking back at your year and looking forward to the next. Get centered and dream about the year you want to have.

Whether you’re alone or with family today, don’t forget to take a little time for yourself! Clear your head with cold air, soothe your nervous system with Legs Up The Wall Pose. Remember to take care of you!

Peace isn’t something that just floats by and you grab it. You have to choose Peace. What actions are you willing to praise to have more Peace in your life?