Archive: October 2019

Sweater Weather is Here In case you missed the onslaught of pumpkin-spiced lattes talk and you haven’t been outside yet this month, I’m here to share that Fall is officially HERE. Yes, friends, we are in the midst of another seasonal transition, especially felt here in Philadelphia. The Summer...

Yoga Stories I love it when people tell me yoga stories. It's like sharing a cup of tea or a good dessert. One of my favorite stories was shared by an active insurance broker who attended one of our Yoga@Work classes at her client's office. She and her husband practice yoga but he had been...

To Sit Or Not To Sit? How do you feel about sitting? It seems like a simple question, though there are lots of kinds of sitting and lots of mixed messages about sitting these days. On one hand, you’ll hear that we sit too much, that our chairs are killing us and other fear-induced headlines....

Christmas in October? I walked into Home Depot yesterday to get some supplies for a window restoration project and was surprised to see they already have their Christmas merchandise on display. On October 13th? Christmas? It had the desired effect.  The lifeless artificial blinking Christmas...

Flying Bats If you have ever played baseball, you know the cardinal rule of being the batter —never throw the bat. Most of us may have been the batter who forgot once and let it slide a few feet or seen someone else do this. Rules in a game like baseball are for fair play and also for...

A favorite childhood tree It was a weeping willow tree at my grandparent's farm in Louisiana and I was about 4 years old. There was a swing that seemed to hang from the sky underneath its enormous canopy of drooping branches. When I was within that space, and my sister and I played atop the fallen...

[audio m4a="/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/WHEN-I-AM-AMOUMG-THE-TREES.m4a"][/audio] When I Am Among The Trees by Mary Oliver When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would...