Misfit Yoga

Resuming Yoga 101 tonight 6pm .cobra.yoga Williamsburg.
Open Level. $20
Suggested donation.

Subbing TOMORROW 10AM .cobra.yoga Bushwick.

Let’s get real, no one wants to get up this early, but it always feels so good when do! Start your Tuesday with me .cobra.yoga

NEW CLASS STARTS THIS WEEK! I’m looking forward to teaching in person again at the lovely .cobra.yoga ‘s newest studio and in Williamsburg.
This will be a workshop style slow flow to demystify and cultivate curiosity and confidence in your practice.
All levels welcome.
$20 suggested donation.

Here’s my favorite way to do headstand lately.
Been quietly returning to my practice after a move and busy holiday season.
I feel the pressure, as I’m sure you all do with the new year, to be active and resolute in making this year better than the last. But, I think one way that will make it better is making time to go slow, to rest, to take our time.
I’m looking into returning to teaching at a studio, if you have any recos for NYC or Brooklyn based ones, and growing my roster of private clients. Please feel free to reach out if you’re intent to make similar changes in 2023.

I was reminded with wise words from in class last week that yoga instills in us the “tapas” to work hard with fire and effort in our practice without the attachment to an outcome.

Was a great reframing of what it means to work hard for me, on and off the mat.

So often we value our work with monetary exchanges or external praise. So we decide it’s not worth the effort unless we get this kind of result. But finding purpose in the work, working hard for the work’s sake, makes it less punitive and infinitely rewarding in so many more ways.

I’ve been in an extended break from teaching online. Will be resuming soon and will be sharing details about an in-person class series here in

I guess it was inevitable with being out in the world again, but I just got over my first cold in over a year! Yes, I took a Covid test, because, this is life now, and thankfully it was negative.

I figured maybe you’d like to know how I manage being sick and what products I like to use.

1. Oregano Oil: I always keep Oregano Oil on hand and take it whenever I’m starting to feel sick or to move a cold through faster. 6 drops under the tongue, I try to let it sit for a minute before washing down with water. It’s pretty intense, so you may just want to add it to water and drink it diluted.

2. Ceramic Neti Pot: I’ve gone on and off the wagon using a Neti Pot daily, I don’t suffer from seasonal allergies but I know others who really find relief using the NP. I typically use it when the weather is super dry, I’ve been gardening or exposed to lots of dust, or I’m starting to feel/gotten sick. I find it helps flush out the sinuses and ease congestion, though, sometimes major congestion is too much for it. It’s also great when you’re pretty much over the illness and want to move along the residual, IYKWIM. 🤧 Just be sure to use distilled water, like cooled from your kettle, and make sure your NP is clean. I use plain sea salt with the distilled water but there are also specific Neti Pot salt packets if you wanna be fancy.

3. Oil and Pastilles: I love the oil on a tissue tucked into my pillow to relieve congestion when I sleep, and the pastilles to relieve congestion and sore throat. I’ve also done a steam putting some oil drops in a bowl of hot water and a towel over my head.😌

4. Mustard Bath: I was gifted this for my birthday in March of 2020, just a week before full pandemic, and it’s been the gift that keeps giving. I love it for sore muscles and cold weather comfort, but mustard also helps bring your body temperature up to kick sickness out. I always have amazing sleep if I take a bath with this before bedtime.

Hope this helps you as we return to life and all it comes with!

**this is not a paid advertisement but if any of these companies want to talk I’m open!**

It was o fun so we’re doing it again! Join me and THIS Friday for another Lunchtime Sweat and Stretch!

Tonight 6pm ET, some nurturing poses to help you ease out of the weekend and into the week. Book in bio.

I’ve been thinking about my relationship to my body and how it is such a complicated one.

As a practitioner and a teacher I’m fascinated by this idea of the body as a vessel and as an extension of myself, and where the line is drawn. How much do we identify with the body we were given, how much do we or others define us by it. How much is it actually indicative of who we are?

I was a very lucky kid and grew up with a pool in my backyard. I loved swimming and spent hours in the pool. But when I hit puberty and my body changed I hated it so much, I hated putting a swimsuit on and showing it so much, that in my teen years I hardly went swimming. I couldn’t get over how much I hated the body I was given, so I refrained from the joy of using it.

In my yoga practice I cultivated a kinder, gracious, and nurturing approach to maintaining this vessel I was given. I learned to quiet the harmful chatter in my head and give my body the space to communicate.

In strength training, it became an interesting experiment to see what my body was capable of by testing its limits in an almost detached way. Where the number on the scale or the pounds I lifted didn’t hold meaning, they were just place marks.

I’ve always loved the yogic philosophy of being infinite. That what we do is not a direct link to who we are. Every person who practices yoga is not the same or defined by that one practice. But how often do we get attached to these labels as a way to feel like the person we wish we were? Fit, flexible, spiritual? And how often is this the fleeting motivation that comes and goes in maintaining our practices?