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Tips on Managing Summer Stress
My favorite, most helpful tips for coping with summertime stress and finding a bit more flow and balance.


3 Easy, Effective, Body-Based Stress-Reduction Techniques
If you're feeling anxious, stressed or overwhelmed, here are three easy, effective relaxation techniques that can help you find your calm again. Progressive muscle relaxation, belly breathing, and compassionate touch are simple, accessible practices that help release mental and muscular tension in just a few minutes.


Free Short, Simple Restorative Yoga Home Practice for Calm
Join me for this short, free two-pose restorative yoga home practice to help you rediscover steadiness and calm amidst chaos and change.


Feeling Overwhelmed? Try Lying Down on the Floor!
If you're feeling anxious and overwhelmed, resting in a comfortable position on the floor is an incredibly effective tool to help the nervous system remember that even amidst chaos, there is still firmness and steadiness. Here, I share tips on integrating this practice (also known as "restorative yoga") into your day and getting the most out of it. Anyone feeling overwhelmed? Anxious? I struggled with these complex feelings for decades and it wasn't until I discovered restora


A Short Mindfulness Meditation to Rediscover the Good During Tough Times
This short, simple mindfulness meditation practice can help you rediscover the good in THIS MOMENT, while releasing stress and tension.


Grounding Our Nervous Systems Through Routines & Rhythm
If your stress, anxiety and overwhelm are frequently high, finding even just a few small daily or weekly routines and creating a more pre


Why I Prefer Restorative Yoga to Yin Yoga
Restorative Yoga and Yin Yoga are slow, calming practices, but differ in significant ways. Find out why I strongly prefer Restorative.


5 Simple, Stress-Reducing Mindfulness Practices for People Who Think They Can't Meditate
Want to reduce stress but meditation isn't for you? Here I share 5 other simple, stress-reducing mindfulness practices that really work!


4 Free Meditative Practices to Reset & Release Stress
Overwhelmed? Overstressed? Try these free meditative practices, meditation and restorative yoga, to help release stress and reconnect to you


Deep Breathing for Calm: 2 Easy Techniques
Here, I share my two favorite deep breathing techniques for calm: belly breathing and 3-Part Yogic Breath. Simple and impactful!


My Top Meditation Styles for Relaxation & Stress-Reduction
Here, I share my two preferred meditation styles for relaxation and stress-reduction, staples of my personal and professional practice.


My Journey Toward Healing...and Becoming a Healer
Learn about my journey from intense stress, burnout & anxiety to healing, and how this led me to start sharing what I learned with others.


What Is Reiki and How Can It Help You Relax and Restore More?
A gentle form of energy healing typically performed via light touch or hovered hands, Reiki can help the body relax, release tension and stuck energy, and stimulate its natural healing processes. Admittedly, Reiki can sound a bit "woo woo"...but it's quickly become one of my favorite healing modalities to receive and share. In this gentle form of energy healing originally from Japan, an "attuned" practitioner directs Reiki, also known as "universal life force energy," to a re


How to Build a Regular Meditation (or Other!) Practice
If you'd like to meditate more regularly, there are a few easy things you can do to lock in your practice. Here, I share the most effective tips and tools I've found. (HINT: They're useful for building almost ANY kind of healthy habit!) Ready to build your meditation practice into something that really sticks? Something more regular and ritualized? Here are the most effective tips and tools I've found—and the great news is they work for almost any healthy habit you'd like to


Find More Joy (& Fitness) With These Favorite YouTube Dance Workouts!
Looking to exercise or dance more this year, or just rediscover a bit more fun and joy? YouTube dance workouts can help you do ALL the above, and with lengths from just a couple minutes to a half hour, you can easily sneak one or more into your busy day. Looooong before the pandemic turned people onto home workouts, I was a total online dance class and dance workout aficionado. A lifelong dancer, I've always sought out opportunities to bring more joyful movement into my life


6 Mindfulness Tips & Tools to Calm Holiday Stress
There are many great, easy and effective mindfulness tools to help us calm seasonal stress. Here are my favorites!


Grounding in Gratitude: Small Practices for Great Well-being
So often, we turn toward gratitude in November, the month of Thanksgiving in the United States. But it turns out that gratitude is good...


What Is Restorative Yoga? (And Why You Might Need It!)
Restorative yoga is one of the practices that pulled me back from the edge of physical and emotional exhaustion, crippling grief, anxiety...


9 Quick, Easy Tools to Find Grounding & Peace When Overwhelmed
There is so much going on in the world now. So much in our lives. It can often be too much. I often used to wander through life...


Slow Down & Savor: Meditations & Journaling Prompts
Life happening too fast? These prompts can help you tap back into your slower pace and savoring self... If your life is coming at you a...
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