A little while ago I wrote about my struggles, about 2020, about being alone during a pandemic with major life shifts that have made things even more difficult. I shared about having anxiety and at times struggling through this year…. or not just this year, but through life in general at times. The post wasn’t made to evoke sympathy or to make people worry about me, it was to show that I am real. We are all really going through a lot, even without a world wide pandemic. T

This year has brought a lot of new words into our vocabulary. The one I’m focusing on today is “pivot”. We’ve seen so many businesses transition from what their main form of business was to something brand new. If you think about it, this time has been a time for a lot of reflection and creative innovation. It has been a very difficult time for so many people, and I don’t want to minimize this at all. It has also been a time of opportunity for so many to reach out and hel

Helen Bashford Yoga @helenbashfordyoga posted the other day “Yoga…..half of it’s in the transitions. Same with life. How do you transition? This made me think. I definitely think about this as I plan and teach yoga, or anything I teach. How to easily move from one place to another with a smooth transition. From classes that I’ve taken, I often notice that I enjoy the transitions just as much as I enjoy the poses. This made me think……. The transitions are the in between

A while ago we got the opportunity to attend an awards night where I was nominated for a Calgary Top Fitness Award as one of Calgary’s Top Yoga Instructors. I don’t exactly know how the process worked, but I do know that a lot of people and studios were nominated for a variety of different awards and the top five were chosen in each category to be notified in the Top 5. I know that I was selected as one of the Top 5 Yoga Instructors nominated and the studio Oxygen Yoga and

Do you ever look at your life and just think…. wow…. I effed this up real good!? Sometimes I look back at my dreams and goals and my life and wonder why my reality looks so different than my dreams. Now…. I say this coming out of a few really challenging years. When I look back at the challenges I’ve been through in last little bit I can still feel the pain in my body. No I haven’t been injured or physically hurt, but pain doesn’t only come from physical injury. But non