A Yogi Kitchen Off The Mat

Happy Thursday Loves! I mentioned in the last episode that I’d pull cards for the week and then I forgot. I guess I was so excited about our new word that I got distracted. Today’s episode is a mini. Just a quick hello to let you know I’m thinking of you and to hello you stay on track with your intention this week. We are diving deeper into our Seva practice this session. So, plan on joining us to...

Happy November Lovelies! On Friday we said goodbye to Align and I spent a day or so reflecting on all the lessons I learned last session. Align brought me to gratitude, and so much clarity. So much clarity. It inspired me to re-examine my core values and take a look at how well Aligned my actions are with my values. We have a lot of ease this session and I shared some new , fun things coming up th...

Happy Sunday! We’re finally having fall here in Lawrence, loves. I hope you’re enjoying October. Now that it feels like spooky season, I’m super excited. As on so many Sundays I invite you take time to set intention. To help us shape the week I pulled cards from Tricia Hersey’s Rest Deck and Doreen Virtue’s Healing With Angels Cards. Pulling cards is a great way to help shape a meditation, journal...

Happy Thursday Loves! Wow! Wow! Wow! The universe spoke directly to me and I didn’t even see it right away. On Monday I picked some cards to help guide me this week. I use them to guide my random thoughts, my meditations, my dreams, my journaling, my conversations, my connections and it’s been soooooo good so far. It cracks me up how I’ve been contemplating this exact thing for months now, just no...

Happy Monday! I feel this week’s greatness in my bones! I know that you got this. It might not be butterflies, sunshine and rainbows, but it’s going to be a fantastic week. You believe me right? I was right about last week. Here’s the funny thing. I always tell you that the best things don’t go smoothly. Our growth mindset means that things will go wrong, cause that’s how you learn. You learn from...

Happy Tuesday Loves! We are STILL in full moon energy and it’s so yummy. Yesterday I was super intentional about my energy. I watched the documentary about John Batiste, American Symphony on Netflix cause I knew it was going to help me connect with the energy of this full moon, which is asking us to release fear and go after what sets your soul on fire with confidence and excitement. Last night we...

Happy Sunday! Popping in on a Sunday and sharing how the week is shaping up has been in my list for a while. Consistency and continuity has also been on my list for a while. I love when there’s lots of free space in my life for some randomness and spontaneity. I love that everyday is different, but it can lead to some dropped balls. For the next month I’m looking for the middle ground. I still dis...

Happy Friday Lives! I did it again. I was all proud of myself for recording midweek and then forgot to post. So here’s my excitement about October recorded on the 1sr. This week is about cutting out the things you don’t want in your life. Don’t judge it as good or bad, think of it as what’s in the way of how you really want to live and what you really want in your life. Cut out anything that gets...

Happy Monday Loves! Do you feel it? It’s going to be such an amazing week. I’m feeling it. Do you? I feel it for you! You’re going to have a fantastic week. It may not be easy. Hard things may happen, but you’re going to connect with this heightened energy and remember who you are. You got this! As soon as often happens when I’m processing out loud I figured out my issue with receiving messages. I...

Happy Wednesday Loves! On Wednesdays I invite you to take some time to get quiet and notice how your week is going. How do you want to move forward. Do you feel it? Are you loving it? Do you feel this big shift in energy everyone is talking about? It’s sooo delicious. Take time today to be present so you can connect with this energy that is helping us vibrate higher. My heart is open, I’m standing...

I recorded and posted yesterday. I’m not sure why it didn’t publish. It’s okay, set intention today if you haven’t already! Happy Sunday Loves! It took all of my energy to get here today. My microphone quit working. More than once and I didn’t realize and kept recording for a while. So I had to find my place and go back to re-record. I lost the recording for a bit, realizing it was in my recently...

Happy Monday Loves! It’s going to be a great week! How do I know? Cause it just keeps getting better and better. I’m feeling it, you’re sharing it and lots of us are posting about it. This Harvest Full Moon is helping us reap the fruits of our hard work setting intention, planting seeds and nurturing our ideas and dreams. It’s all coming to fruition. Yesterday we took time to be still and move slo...

Happy Thankful Thursday Loves! Align is our new word and a lot of us are loving it! It’s reminding us to look over a shoulders more often and see how the dots are connecting. When I see how it’s all fitting together, I get this overwhelming, heart full of gratitude. I shared my gratitudes from this lovely week. How is your heart feeling.? Share what makes your heart smile. Your connection, comment...

Happy September Lives! I wasn’t sure that I wanted to start the new session yet, but then the new energy of a new month hit me and I jumped in! We will spend the next 8 weeks in this new session. We have so many fun events, Yogi Field Trips, full moon classes and workshops as well as more opportunities to practice Seva this session. Make sure to grab your calendar so you don’t forget to join us. T...

Hello Loves, I did it again! I recorded an episode and forgot to upload it. So here is a return to an old type of post. A meditation. Friday’s I invite you to Celebrate Your Wins, so this Friday I led you into a check-in and a reflection on what went well this week. So, get comfy and take some time to breathe and focus. You can listen to this meditation at any time. It doesn’t have to be in a Frid...

Happy Thursday Loves! Fr a while now I’ve been saying that there’s something coming. It was an ending as well as a beginning. I thought it was my mom’s death. Nope that wasn’t it, I could still feel it coming. When Steve died, I thought ; Ok! That is definitely an ending. But I could tell a new beginning hadn’t started. I was standing either in the epilogue of my last book in the book series of my...

Hello Loves! Last episode I reflected on how endings and showering me with grace and I’m so deeply grateful for the things that have come to an end. The Black New Moon today invites you to honor your endings. Instead of taking action to align with our intentions, it’s time to sit with your incredible bravery and wisdom. Sit with the beautiful gifts of being able to let go. I swear I didn’t know an...

Happy Day Lives! I did it again. This episode was from a day or two ago, but I’m still putting it out there. Maybe I needed to say out loud that I have to post it right away to prove myself wrong. Willingness keeps floating in! I keep showing up and it keeps flooding my heart. We have a new family! I called out for donations and you all showed up. Last week I delivered clothes to a new high school...

Loves! I recorded this two days ago and even said, I’ve learned that I have to post right away or I won’t do it. Well, I dug down into my Willingness and decided to post even though it’s two days later. These are some of my last thought from the Willingness Project (it’s new title after I failed at it being a challenge). There’s also some lovely thoughts on our community and everything we’ve been...

Hello Loves! I had the best conversation during Saturday’s Zoom Somatic Yoga Class. The thing I love about Somatics is that while we’re musing the mindful movement to process and release emotions, it also helps move things, like our work in willingness from our head into our hearts. It great for problem solving in feeling innate as if thinking. I have a call to the community in Lawrence to help us...

Hello Loves! It’s been a minute. That’s the way grief is showing up for me. I think I just posted recently and it’s actually been two weeks. Having said all that, I thought I just posted. Nope. I recorded, and didn’t post yesterday. I’m so sorry loves. My brain is a sieve. I talked about how the willingness challenge is more of a willingness project. I’m learning so much about where willfulness ke...

Hello Loves! We’re jumping into our new word and slowly tip-toeing into our Willingness Challenge. I don’t know why I’m so invested in willfulness, the thing that keeps me from willingness, but I had an a-ha this week that gives me at least part of the answer. And that’s why we do these challenges right? Each time we do a challenge, every time we do a workshop or a special class we learn and grow....

Hello Loves! This has been the best session! It’s been hard sometimes. There been lots of discomfort and emotional intensity, especially with the moon in Scorpio Standing in Love has been my saving grace. So I shared some reflections on Love and how I finally feel like I’m starting the first chapter of this new book in the book series of my life. Tomorrow, July 15, we start our Willingness Challen...

Happy Sunday Lives! It’s time to set intention again. What do you want this week? Focus in on how you want to feel and what you’re willing to do for that feeling. It’s the waxing gibbous moon on Scorpio which is a time of emotional intensity and to reflect on your inner strength. It’s a time to get supper honest about who you are and what you’re building. It’s our last 9 days of focusing on Love a...

Hello Loves! It’s Steve’s Birthday week and I’ve been struggling. I recorded this on his birthday, two days ago and didn’t realize I hadn’t posted till late yesterday. Grief is a crazy place to live. Just when I think I’m settling into widowhood, everything shifts and I’m missing him more this week than I have in months. So, I’m working on keeping my heart open to Love, our woes of the session, an...