Upper Valley Yoga Blog
Road TripThere's something about a road trip..... My husband and I are meeting up with our son in Montreal on Saturday, and then driving some thirteen hours to Chicago. The long hours of sitting are not going to do my body any favors, but there's something about a road trip.... The drive is a choice; partly financial, partly because our son's schedule tends to unravel with last minute changes, and a plane ticket requires firm commitment. But, the long hours in the car also promise a kind of close proximity w. . . Read more |
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Fall's BountyWant to get a sense of what taking a class at UVY is like? Please enjoy this slideshow! ************************************************* I love Summer, but like most of us, I also cherish the grace and beauty of Summer's transition into Autumn. My raspberry bushes produce the most gorgeous berries starting about now, and my blueberries are just winding down. This bounty of late summer goodness reminds me to reig. . . Read more |
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Happy Anniversary!Hope this Labor Day finds you rested and enjoying a truly spectacular, early September afternoon. 13 years ago today (thank you Allison Schned, for reminding me!) we held our first official class as Upper Valley Yoga at the Black Community Center in Hanover. Kat Smith (then Frorer) and I ran an ad for a free Labor Day class and much to our astonishment, a huge number of people showed up. It was a beautiful, heart stopping experience to teach that class together, and it set the stage for many, many more ga. . . Read more |
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Sorrow and WonderI have been trying to write this blog post since the horrific murders in Orlando back in June, but the cascade of shocking and heartbreaking news week after week since June has repeatedly squashed my desire to examine too closely either the world or my own psyche. I won't belabor the news; we all get too much of it anyway. Not to mention the nauseating and numbing news cycle around the election. But I do want to share with you something that happened one day before those awful murders in Orlando, when I . . . Read more |
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Tines up! Yoga in the GardenThe Yoga of Paying Attention. In everyday life. This is at least one of yoga's off the mat lessons, right? And yoga, like anything learned, is a process of learning, re-learning, unlearning, re-learning, over and over, round and round. On Tuesday I was working on my blueberries with a hoe rake when I did the thing that you should never do. I held the tool loosely, tines down, while talking to someone. Suddenly, somehow I shifted one foot to the tines on the ground, and the handle o. . . Read more |