Marcia's Musings: The Good Stuff
/What should we do when the bad stuff in our lives piles up? Is there are way to get out of the continuous loop of stress and rumination? One way is to recognize abundance in our lives.
Read MoreMarcia's Musings: Global Entry
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Travel changes you. When you travel, you grow. You learn to listen. You become a citizen of the world. Join Marcia as she recounts her travels, both personal and with Green Lotus, and extends an invitation to you to travel with us
Read MoreRaising Joyful Yogis: The Power of Yoga for Children and the Adults Who Guide Them
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In today’s fast-paced world, children are more overstimulated than ever before. Yoga offers them a path to stillness and self-regulation. Learn more about the powerful benefits of yoga for kids, and sign them up for a yoga-centered summer camp!
Read MoreMeet a Healer: Soul Connections with Angi Jara
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As a healer and an empath, I have found that allowing oneself compassion, silence, and grace heals both the physical body and the spiritual being. I’m honored to share these gentle practices for connection with your Soul.
Read MoreSuch Sweet Sorrow
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Teacher Laura Adams loves to write, both prose and poetry. In this poem, she contemplates the conundrum between spring as a time of renewal and a time of letting go of the past.
Read MoreMarcia's Musings: You've Lost That Loving Feeling
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The storm clouds blew in with so little warning that there was no time to run, no time to hide. They gathered, small at first, in a corner of my mind, unnoticed and therefore unattended to. As I sought a safe space internally, none could be found, and I took refuge in family and friends.
Read MoreMarcia's Musings: "Kiss Someone You Think Is Wonderful"
/We hold so tightly to the word “resolute” and its direct descendant, “resolution”. We took this lovely word with its Latin footprints, held it hostage, and morphed it into something that tends toward a kind of rigidity and judgment that often results in disappointment and feelings of failure.
Read MoreWinter Storm
/Teacher Laura Adams loves to write, both prose and poetry. In this poem, she finds the peace of presence in the winter storm.
Read MoreMarcia's Musings: People Who Need People
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When times become troubled, when loneliness descends, when weariness seeps into the bones, when the load feels too heavy, even when we wish to have fun and adventure, the comfort and joy of community beckons…
Read MoreThe Answer is You
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Every time I walk through the studio doors, preparing to hold the seat of the teacher, I whisper two things to myself: May my words flow meaningfully, and may my presence be felt as the safe space I intend for it to be.
Read MoreAs Nature Shifts
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Teacher Laura Adams loves to write, both prose and poetry. Read her wonderment about the transformations of autumn.
Read MoreThe Bhagavad Gita: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
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Who am I? Why am I here? These are questions most of us ask ourselves at some point. There are ancient teachings that we can use to guide our modern lives and help us to answer these questions.
Read MoreSummer's Alive
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Teacher Laura Adams loves to write, both prose and poetry. Here, she shares a poem for summer…
Read MoreThe Meanings of May
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The month of May brings to mind, for me, many wonderful things – May Day and Mother’s Day, planting seeds in freshly tilled dirt, the scent of lilacs blooming, the return of the hummingbirds to my feeders, and the absolute joy of our herd of Scottish Highland cattle when we send them out to graze on pastures of bright green grass for the first time after a winter of dry hay. All of these things speak to me of beginnings - full of hope, possibilities, and potential.
Read More“Wheeling” and Dealing with Our Precious Energy
/Chakras help illuminate profound truths about whether we are more than just a physical body…
Read MoreThe Sweet Surrender to Spring
/Spring is the time when we see what the seeds planted in the past bring forth. Will the tulips come up, or did the squirrels get them? Will the work that I put into my business, my relationship, or my garden reap rewards or will self-surrender guide me as I realize not all I wished for has come to pass in this present moment?
Read MoreSpring Tips for the Holistically Minded
/The gentle breeze carries fragrant whispers of soil and fertility, and soon there will be lilac perfume wafting through the air. I sit on my stoop, enjoying a sunbeam shining on my face, watching the world burst into color and sound and aroma, feeling the qi of spring. I feel the world opening up to new beginnings, reconnections, and vast possibility.
Read MoreSpringtime Wants to Dance
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Newness paints the skies again
A rainbow makes her mark
The proof that fresh beginnings lie
Just beyond the dark.
Love Yourself
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You’ve heard the saying, “One cannot truly love another until they truly love themselves.” Yet, we often find it much easier to feel love for others than we do for ourselves. You may be asking: What does it even really mean to love ourselves?
Read MoreMarcia's Musings: Paying Tribute
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Today, I pay tribute to a man who learned to live in “the world of and”, who embraced change, a meaningful space in the philosophy of yoga, particularly in the therapeutic approach of Yoga Nidra, and in Buddhist psychology.
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