New Year. Same Badass You.
ody policing and shaming has NO space in my classes nor at the places I choose to work. As someone who has worked for many years on making sure I get to a place of physical, emotional and mental...
View ArticlePack Your Mat Barcelona Itinerary: March 15 – 21, 2018
Not a yoga retreat, an experience.
View ArticleBirthday and Pride Donation Class at One Down Dog for LA LGBT Center – June...
How lucky to be alive another year. The last year has been an introspective year where I have been deciding and discerning where to prioritize my energy and love. Instead of writing publicly for my...
View ArticleMr. Pramod, My Bachelor Driver!
The guest, in Indian culture, is highly regarded and to the westerner receiving this level of attention and pampering could often prove to be uncomfortable. Today, more than twenty staff members,...
View ArticleMindfulness Monday’s: Cultivating Joy in Community
A key component of our spiritual progress is reliant on the communities that we are a part of. This work, if done alone, can be very daunting and often a lonely venture. Throughout the years, I have...
View ArticleInversion Lab at One Down Dog Silver Lake – October 27th, 2019
One Down Dog in Silver Lake holds a monthly inversion lab and with great excitement I will be moving us through some drills to get us upside down. Do you have an aversion to inversions? You are not...
View ArticlePractice Foundations Workshop at One Down Dog
The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali are a collection of 196 Indian sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga. In Sutra 1.14 the practitioner is invited to practice regularly, earnestly and...
View ArticlePratyāhāra: The Fifth and Often Forgotten Limb of Yoga
When my flight got cancelled in mid-March and I had the choice of scrambling and waiting on hold with my airline to book another ticket back home, I chose to stay. I chose to quarantine on the Big...
View ArticleMidsummer Homecoming: A Virtual Retreat with Ducky and Armen
We are delighted that you are considering to join us for a half day of movement, breath, meditation and some community love. You have everything you need. Come as you are. The day is curated with a...
View Articleheartfelt journeys end. New ones begin. NEW WEBSITE
Dear Pack Your Mat Family, When I began this blog in 2016 in the midst of deep longing for happiness, ease and belonging, writing became the avenue in which I processed life. Through writing and...
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