These yoga-inspired core-strengthening exercises are known as the “Curse Me Core Workout” because there’s a longstanding joke among my students that they curse me under their breath while they practice this core workout. (And now that they practice with me online, they can curse aloud since they’re muted!)

When you move your body early in the morning, you'll find stillness in your mind the rest of the day.

Andrea Marcum leads a diverse yoga group through magical Morocco, as 20 individuals grow and evolve into one single yoga family

Did lockdown life leave you feeling uninspired like a mindless vinyasa? Maybe a bit unmotivated, limited, linear, and constricted? In pandemic times (or any times), we get stuck in our patterns and habits (samskara) and life can feel like a song we’re sick of hearing but can’t get off repeat.

It can be very easy to judge. We think we’ve got everybody all figured out, but the labels we point to in order to explain who we are often have little to do with core qualities. Take, for example, compassion. Vegetarians, environmentalists, yogis, parents: all of these labels suggest people who naturally exhibit a lot of compassion, right? What then of non-yoga practicing, carnivorous, climate change-denying real estate developers— are they completely devoid of compassion?

The seasons of spring and summer bring with them opportunity…a chance to clean out some of the cobwebs

How the practice of earthing, and getting grounded back in nature, can even out our whole being when the stress is all too much.

On March 17, 2020 everything I knew turned upside down in a wobbly, uncertain headstand I was pretty sure I didn't want to stay in too long. I found myself online teaching classes --something I’d avoided like the plague (sorry poor word choice!) in ‘before times’...

Want to become more advanced? Well then, you’re going to need to become a beginner again. 

Whether it’s hustle or self-help – personal best or finding your True North—it’s about making it happen. ‍