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14/02/2026

This Valentine’s Day, in addition to reflecting on romantic love, how about noticing more the quiet, brave work of coming home to ourselves?

Derek Walcott’s poem Love After Love reminds us of something we often forget. That the most important relationship we will ever have is the one we have with our own mind, heart, and body. Start there.

So, for Valentine's, instead of reflecting on being "chosen," 🙄 as someone's Valentine, choose yourself.

Instead of waiting to be loved, practice loving the one who is already here....the one who has been there for you since the beginning.

Don’t be mine.

Be yours.

Happy Valentine’s Day

12/02/2026

What would it feel like to give your nervous system three full days of rest and ease?

So many women arrive at my retreats carrying so much. Responsibilities. Decisions. Caretaking. Quiet exhaustion.

And then something shifts.

Shoulders soften.
The breath deepens.
Tears release.
Laughter returns.

Not because we force anything
but because the body finally feels safe enough to let go.

From April 24 to 26, I am guiding a Women’s Yoga and Mindfulness Retreat at Schweibenalp, a beautiful, peaceful retreat center in the Swiss Alps.

This weekend is an invitation to:
• rest deeply
• move gently
• breathe fully
• be held by nature and community
• come back to yourself

If your body, heart, or nervous system is whispering that it needs something more, this may be your moment.

✨ Learn more and reserve your place at wellbalanced.me

11/02/2026

Simple moves can spark lasting change. New studies confirm that holding the cobra pose, a gentle backbend from yoga; for just 20 to 30 seconds each day can awaken your spinal muscles and improve posture within a few weeks.

Cobra pose stretches your chest, shoulders, and abdomen while engaging the lower back. This mild, focused activation sends signals to muscles along the spine that are often underused due to long hours of sitting or screen time. By working these postural muscles, the body begins to realign itself naturally.

Over time, this small habit helps reduce stiffness, increase spinal flexibility, and build awareness of upright posture. Think of it as hitting a daily “reset” for your back.

The best part? You don’t need to be flexible or experienced in yoga. Even beginners can benefit. Just lie on your stomach, place your palms under your shoulders, and gently lift your chest. No need to force it, breathe in, hold for 20–30 seconds, and feel the stretch.

Consistency is key. Like brushing your teeth for caring for your teeth, this short practice supports your spinal health day by day.

Taking care of your body doesn’t always require intense workouts. Sometimes, it's the small moves done consistently that have the biggest impact.

Stand taller. Breathe easier. Feel stronger. One gentle stretch at a time.

10/02/2026

The world is changing faster than our nervous systems were ever designed for.

When I was young, you could choose a path. Study something, train for it, build a life around it and retire at 65.

There was a sense that the future was knowable. Not perfect, but predictable enough to lean into.

For most of human history, this was true. If you were a farmer, your children would likely be farmers. If you trained for a profession, it would probably still exist when you finished.

Now that stability is quietly disappearing. Today, a 21-year-old cannot make a five-year plan with the same confidence. A 60 year old who lost his job in the tech industry, has a harder time getting rehired in this fast changing environment.

The world is moving faster than we can model it and, not to sound fatalistic, but there are no guarantees. Jobs are changing and technology is reshaping everything....and our bodies feel it.

We are wired to predict and to look ahead and make sense of what is coming, and when the horizon won’t sit still, the nervous system goes into low-grade alarm. Not panic, not crisis, just a constant background hum of vigilance (fight, flight, freeze).

This is the anxiety so many of us are living inside. The hardest part is not the change itself, it's letting go of what used to feel solid and letting go of the idea that we could know what was coming.

This is why resiliency practices like mindfulness, breathwork, and embodiment matter so much right now, not to escape the world, but to anchor ourselves inside it. When the future is uncertain, presence becomes our refuge, when the map disappears, the body becomes home.

Maybe the real work of this era is not predicting what is next but learning how to stay grounded, flexible, resilient and kind as it unfolds.

What do you do to keep your body and mind grounded in this fast-paced world of change?

Let me know if I can share some practical tools at your workplace to help calm the nervous system and develop resiliency in this ever-changing world. Or, join me for a weekend retreat to immerse yourself in nervous system soothing practices.

Be well.🙏

06/02/2026

Avoid the commute and start your day with yoga from the comfort of your own home. Join me online! https://www.wellbalanced.me/

24/01/2026

Sit like a mountain. You are the sky…everything else is just the weather.

Sometimes in teaching meditation we say, “Sit like a mountain. Sit with a sense of strength and dignity. Be steadfast, be majestic, be natural and at ease in awareness. No matter how many winds are blowing, no matter how many clouds are swirling, no matter how many lions are prowling, be intimate with everything and sit like a mountain.” This is an image of equanimity. We feel everything, without exception, and we relate to it through our own strength of awareness, not through habitual reactions. Practice sitting like a mountain sometime, allowing all images and feelings and sensations to come and go, as you reside in steadfastness, watching it all arise and pass away.

23/01/2026

Yoga (as many of you already know) is so much more than getting flexible. It's full of tools to help keep your mind, heart and body healthy and well.

The feeling you feel just the few moments after savasana is just a sample of the peace that is available within (always present...always available....it just gets buried.) 😀

Want to dive deeper into this rich practice of self care with a teacher (and a wonderful group of women) who keeps it real, fun all while being surrounded by the beautiful nature in Schweibenalp and nourishing yourself with the delicous, healthy meals? Join me!

You will learn practical tools to help quiet your mind, keep you resilient in everyday life and bottom line, you'll have fun and return with a sense of ease in your body, mind and heart.

p.s. Springtime is amazing in Schweibenalp! Join me: April 24-26, 2026.

www.wellbalanced.me/retreats

19/01/2026

What if the practice is simply this: to treat our bodies as deserving of time, of patience, and love.

This is yoga to me. This is mindfulness. This is healing.

15/01/2026

Dive deeper into the practice of yoga with my latest blog post! Discover the importance of pelvic floor exercises and how they contribute to core stability and balance in your practice. Read more here: https://wix.to/S0M5U1k

15/01/2026

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✍️ Finding Peace in What We Cannot Control - Everything in life unfolds in ways we cannot predict. We wake each morning not knowing what the day will bring, what emotions will surface, or what circumstances will shift without warning.

Even our own happiness can feel elusive—arriving and vanishing like weather we cannot command. Our emotions rise and fall like tides, often defying our wish to feel differently than we do. If guiding our own hearts feels this difficult, how much more futile is it to try to control others? To demand they think or feel exactly as we wish?

The truth is both humbling and freeing: everything happens in its own way, following rhythms we did not write.

But here is what we can do: We can be at peace when things happen. We can meet whatever arises—joy or sorrow, gain or loss—with a steady mind and an open heart.

• If something can be changed: We do not need to worry—we simply take action with clear intention.

• If something cannot be changed: We also do not need to worry—we accept what is and save our energy for what we can actually influence.

This doesn't mean we stop caring. It means we stop adding unnecessary suffering to our lives. We stop exhausting ourselves trying to control the uncontrollable and focus on the one thing we can genuinely influence: our own response.

We do this through mindfulness. By returning to our breath, we anchor ourselves in the present. We notice when we are reacting unconsciously and choose to respond with understanding instead.

This is how we bring peace back to our inner landscape. We cannot control the storms that come, but we can learn to remain peaceful within them. We cannot dictate how others behave, but we can always choose how we respond.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏

14/01/2026

The key to your physical and emotional stability and mobility is sometimes in your hips...