Summer update

I haven't been able to say formally what a great time I've had teaching this year once again at the Frost Valley Women's Wellness Retreat! That was in March and I got to teach 5 fantastic classes, and got some beautiful feedback from students who ended up trying out yoga because it was rainy our last morning there. Surrounded by the majestic mountains and pre-blooming trees, "prana", or life force, felt like it was everywhere.

I have done meditation classes and retreats with my regular teacher, and also Loch Kelly, who has honed his instruction so that is very Westerner-friendly and you can truly drop into detaching from thought in each moment. I was blessed to go on a daylong with him at New York Insight Meditation Center in June.

My own dayjob schedule has kept me from going to many yoga classes, but I pratice on my own, of course, and took a karma-clearing workshop about working with the chakras with my teaching instructor, Dr Jeff Migdow, at Greenhouse Holistic in Brooklyn in late June. All of us students were women! Jeff said the tide is turning toward the feminine. I could use some power. I'm sure all our yoga at Women's Wellness is helping to turn the tide.

I've been certified to practice animal reiki, and have a lovely little yorkie as a client. I hope to do more of this healing. The yorkie sniffs and licks my hands as it to say she knows the energy coming from them is ready for her. Her nickname is "reiki sponge."

Well, as far as my teaching goes, I hope to do more of it. I'm focusing on teaching 12 step recovery conscious-contact classes, infertility, triathlete yoga, among other healing needs privately right now, and eventually perhaps in a workshop setting.