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Did you hear the amazing news that Katie Presley is joining the Luminous Recovery Yoga teaching schedule?

I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. Wait, yes I can (this...

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One major change that occurred for me in 2022 was finding sobriety.

As of writing this, I have 137 days weed and alcohol free.

On New Year's Eve I had the honor of being the...

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Maybe you can relate—The end of the year always brings up a lot of reflection time for me. 

Honestly, if you would’ve asked me this time last year how my life...

I’ll never forget the time I was in a hard af hot yoga class with a challenging teacher.

I was holding a crescent lunge twist and the teacher kept encouraging us to go deeper.

I was deep...

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Early on in my yoga practice a discussion about savasana had come up one day while at the yoga studio. I said to the person with whom I was speaking that “I’m not...

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If you listen to my weekly podcast, you know that I love a good acronym! Acronyms are a type of mnemonic device that can help increase your ability to recall and retain...

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Remember that saying we’re “human beings not human doings”? Cliches may feel trite and overused, but they remain true for many of us.

Maybe you can...

Yoga teachers like to tell their students that yoga is a 5,000 year old practice. This is common folklore to hear around the American yoga studio. Historical evidence tells us that yoga dates back...

What is vinyasa yoga, flow yoga, or vinyasa flow yoga? These are all things you might see on any yoga studio schedule in America. Sometimes, reading a yoga studio schedule can feel like a mystery....

 Downward facing dog is a capstone pose. We take this pose so frequently in yoga practice, returning to it over and over again. If you practice in the style of vinyasa yoga, which is what I...

I do yoga for many reasons, but today I want to share about yoga and sensation. The practice of yoga teaches me how to feel sensations in my body. This may sound simple, and really, it is. As a...

Can yoga help with weight loss? This is a question that I’ve been asked many times before and the short answer to this question is ‘yes.’ I lost 150 pounds to be exact. Back in...