At CW Body + Soul, we kicked off the year by facilitating a Group Yoga Therapy Course entitled, Thrive!. Bridging the gap between yoga and talk therapy, the Thrive yoga therapy experience is guided through 8 weekly themes based on the Phoenix Rising School of Yoga Therapy methodology. Each session incorporates breath and movement, yoga shapes, mindfulness practices, meditation, and facilitated inquiry. Through community support, each person has opportunities to be seen and h

I have had a good friend since high school who once called me his wing woman. We have laughed over this time for many years now and how I actually failed him on this specific mission of finding love for him in a bar. However, since that day, I have studied the mind and body through yoga, meditation, and yoga therapy and how they are NOT separate. What goes on in one, shows up in the other. So what that means is chronic stress and day-to-day activities deeply impact us. This s

Where there is smoke, there is burning cheese on the bottom of the oven!!!!! It didn’t take me long to notice the smell of burnt cheese emanating from the oven where my homemade pizza was cooking. Small disasters can strike at any time. As I looked inside of my very hot oven, I noticed the cheese had dripped over the sides of the crust and melted onto the bottom of the oven creating a mini fire of sorts and a lot of smoke. Of course, these are small problems in the grand sche