Hello everyone!
Just a quick reminder to all of you getting into a practice, or hoping to expand your yoga wardrobe a little!  Be sure to enter the contest currently running on She Knows Yoga to win a cozy pair of new yoga pants from bepresent.com.  Just follow the simple rules below, leave me a comment and let me know how yoga makes your life a little better and you are good to go!  I’ll be drawing the lucky winner’s name December 12. Good luck and have fun! 
A Comfy New Pair of Yoga Pants Could be Yours!

If you’ve checked out my Holiday Shopping Guide, then …read more

Still searching for the right gift for your favorite yoga lover, or a little something for yourself?
Our friends at YogaDirect.com are offering a 10% discount exclusively to She Knows Yoga readers for the holidays. Go online and browse, and when you finish shopping,  just enter promo code SKY10 at the check out.  Yoga mats, bolsters, eye pillows, everything you might want or need for your practice. If you’re looking for other products or shopping ideas on the mat or off, be sure to visit my holiday shopping guide page for even more goodies.  More to come!
Peace. 

I felt this was a really appropriate topic today.   Returning to work after two weeks off, I thought I’d be a little more relaxed. Wishful thinking
.  I didn’t realize it until my should started throbbing at about 9 p.m. last night.  Anxiety was beginning to permeate my body, ever so slightly.
My right shoulder is always the first to go.  It’s what I call my stress “search light,” sending out signals that I will soon be tied up in little knots.
It goes from throbbing to burning to out-and-out pain.  Then it moves to my into neck and lower back.  …read more

There’s a lot to yoga–and meditation, Pilates, and especially to what I call the yoga “lifestyle.”
One of the most wonderful aspects of any yoga or meditation practice is how much you can deepen it over time.  I really do tend to be your typical American–impatient with myself (and sometimes others), eager to be an expert at something (like yoga) almost immediately.  
But that attitude is counter-intuitive to a yoga or meditation practice.  There are so many layers to delve into, so many depths to plumb, that it is just not possible to be what any of us would consider “expert” in a …read more

One of the most important–and with my schedule, too often overlooked–things I have time to do when the year winds down, is catch up on my reading.
Because, yoga, meditation, Pilates and what I call the “lifestyle” are such deep and studied topics, I am going to begin a new tradition with this blog.  I’d like to share with all of you some of the books I have found helpful and instructive, and recommend them to you to check out and share.   
My first choice would be the The Heart of Meditation, Pathways to a Deeper Experience, by Sally Kempton.  This is an amazing …read more

As part of my contribution to this year’s Holiday Shopping Guide, I included a lovely treat for yoga lovers of all levels!  I wanted to be sure to call it out here as a special welcome to She Knows Yoga.
Beginning today and for the next two weeks, readers can go to My Yoga Online, enter a special promotional code, and enjoy access to online instruction, information about sustainability and the yoga lifestyle, and generally hang out, learn more about your practice and get great tips, too!
Here’s how it works:
Beginning TODAY, just follow this link, and enter promo code RY097381 to activate your …read more

One of the most important gifts that yoga and meditation have given me is to open my heart and mind to the ideas and needs of others.
What I would like to accomplish most with this blog is to post topics that are meaningful to my readers.  So here’s your chance to share your ideas and needs with me, and see them bear fruit in the form of my posts.
I am asking each of you to submit topics that are of interest to you.  Poses, principles, lifestyle questions, all of it.  If you want to learn how to do something in particular, or …read more

Hello old friends and new!
I’m new and a bit “old” to the channel, too!  Just finished a few months at Grounded Fitness blogging about yoga, meditation, Pilates, and the yoga lifestyle millions of people around the world are embracing. 
To get started here, I’d like to share my take on this new blog, its name and its purpose.  I do know yoga, yes.  But like a lot of you, I feel there is so much yet for me to learn and experience through yoga, its teachings, meditation and Pilates, that I feel as though we are going on a journey together.    
The single …read more