Integration is about bringing together all the different parts of yourself - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual - and finding harmony within. It's about accepting yourself as you are, with all your imperfections and flaws, and finding a way to be present with whatever arises in each moment.

This week's episode of the Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast is about learning to accept the things I cannot change. This phrase comes from a line in the serenity prayer. Over the course of the next few episodes, I’ll be breaking down the serenity prayer into three components.

What lessons can balancing on one foot teach a yoga practitioner? We do not have to get it right, look good, or nail the pose in order to give ourselves permission to try something.

I want to distinguish a difference between gratitude and toxic positivity, or the “good vibes only” club. Toxic positivity often silences the pain by suggesting we ignore our suffering and replace it with positivity. This is not the same thing as gratitude.

There is a lot of detox talk in yoga. Whether it's a "detox flow" or the idea that twisting the body will detox your liver. Much of this "yoga knowledge" is rooted in misinformation about how bodies work.

Savasana generally comes at the end of yoga practice. Savasana comes from the Sanskrit word Śava, which means corpse. Resting requires practice as much as anything else we do with our time. In our highly industrialized society, taking time for rest is a skillful act of resistance and defiance.

If you listen to my weekly podcast, you know that I love a good acronym! Acronyms are a type of mnemonic device that can help increase your ability to recall and retain information. This week I teach you all about J.A.D.E—which stands for justify, argue, defend, and explain.

There is a tendency to falsely identify with all of the things that there are to do in a day as the sole reason for existence. We place a lot of value on how much we can accomplish as though we are those things. In this episode, I propose that we are ➡️not that, not that.

Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery is a twelve step based discussion and yoga practice open to anyone and everyone dealing with their own addictive behavior or have been affected by the addicted behavior of others. People of all twelve step recovery groups are welcome including recovery curious.

If you would have asked me before recovery if I was a good listener, without hesitation (or listening), I would’ve given you a resounding YES!