Unconditionally Yoga

Even though I don't work in a school anymore, the end of summer always feels more like a new year than January does. Pair that with the...

The fifth anniversary of may brain hemorrhage came and went quietly. We were on holidays on the boat in Idaho. No celebration. Quiet...

Woah, so it has been a hot minute since I paid some attention to this. In fact I almost deleted the whole site a few weeks ago. Still...

Said my husband to me when I signed up for the "Winter Warriors Challenge" or rather a friend gifted me an entry and I went along with it....

Today is the fourth anniversary of my brain hemorrhage. They told me that I would see the most healing in the first year, and I am not...

This is a post that has been hanging around in the back of my head for awhile, and our word in our yoga philosophy group this week is...

I haven't written a post here in over two months. Yikes. Summer was a busy time around my house, and I was quietly working through some...

I sometimes wonder what my life would feel like if my brain bleed had been in another part of my brain. If it had affected my motor...

One time before I even went to my yoga teacher training I was journalling and wrote "comparison will be the death of me". That sentence...

Can we talk about sleep? Google tells me that anywhere from 30-70% of people with traumatic brain injuries have sleep issues, and for...

This week my intention was to choose grace. If you know me personally, feel free to chuckle to yourself. I am not a graceful person. ...

We all have a default way of thinking. That proverbial glass half empty versus glass half full. But it is more than that. It is the...

In my previous life, pre brain injury, I worked in a special needs preschool. The children we supported had a wide variety of needs,...

Last time I wrote it was about setting an intention, maybe for your yoga practice or for your day or week. But what happens when you...

It is that time of the year again. I started this blog about two years ago, and my first post is here. This still is so true for me,...

So many people have said to me how strong they think I am, in coping as well as I have with my recovery. I don't actually think that I...

I'm sure glad that I didn't promise to do one of these a week, because I would not have come even close to keeping that promise. And...

This weekend marks the one year anniversary of my brain bleed. When everything changed. I was having a hard time coming to terms with...

The fourth yama is brahmacharya, or non-excess. This has easily been the biggest change for me since my brain bleed. The goal posts...

I've been thinking about this post for a few weeks now. I think this might be the hardest of the yamas and niyamas for me post brain...