The Peaceful Blog
The Winter Solstice Reset: Creating a Holiday Self-Care Survival Kit
December is a beautiful time of the year, often filled with festive joy, celebrations, and gatherings. However, it is also a season when our lives become incredibly busy, and routines turn hectic. Between managing travel plans, coordinating infinite preparations, and attending holiday events, our personal energy can easily run completely empty.
What’s the difference between an intention and a goal for the New Year?
Writing your list of intentions for the New Year can be an inspiring process—one that often happens from a deeper desire to be, do, or have new experiences in the coming year. The act of contemplating where you’re at in your life and envisioning what’s to come stirs a new energy within—an energy of curiosity, hope, and inspiration. For instance, when done with awareness and intention, it sparks a connection to something bigger that lights your path.
Set your new year’s intentions with peaceful yoga
For those of you who have attended my classes, I always begin my class by setting an intention. I have been fortunate enough to have some amazing teachers throughout the years. And all of them taught me the importance of setting intentions.
Finding Your Happy Place: How to Cultivate Joy Mindfully Everyday
We have all heard the timeless wisdom that true happiness lies within us. Yet, as we navigate the complexities of daily life, we often find ourselves needing an external anchor—a specific place or environment that awakens our inner peace and serves as our dedicated "happy place."
The opening of my yoga studio
With the opening of my yoga studio coming up, I am feeling super humbled and grateful that something I have been dreaming about for so long is finally coming to reality. Much hard work and dedication have gone into this opening. It takes me back to the beginning and makes me grateful for where I started versus where I am today.
Yoga, start where you are!
Acknowledging that this self-care is needed is paramount to our resilience. For instance, in the yogic text, the yoga sutra, the great sage Patanjali writes in the sutra 1.1 – atha yogānuśāsanam. In other words, “Now is the time for Yoga to Begin. The time for yoga is Now“.
Time to revisit your new year intentions
Now that we are more than 1/2 way through 2021, I thought it would be a great time for me to suggest for you to revisit your intentions for 2021. At the beginning of 2021, I posted 3 videos on setting intentions. Here is a link to the first one of the three. https://youtu.be/nHzA8Xh_IsQ