Batch of Sky Yoga, Chandler, AZ (2025)

10/28/2025

We've been exploring the third niyama, tapas, on our mats lately.

Literally translated as heat, we know practicing tapas causes positive change through self-discipline, effort, and simply making the choice to show up for yourself day after day. We are whole and complete, but sometimes we need to burn away some impurities so that the best version of ourselves may shine.

We set goals. They don't have to be something like completing an Ironman triathlon, either.

Maybe our goal is to obtain a professional certification, spend more quality time with our family, paint the living room, or train a new puppy. Then we figure out what we need to do to reach our goals and make a promise to ourselves to do those things.

Easier said than done. But tapas can help us...do something. One step at a time.

10/24/2025

Big thanks to Barbara who was doing a Matless Yoga replay this week and reminded me that Ringo will always be part of the Batch of Sky Yoga digital library. 😻

We miss that little guy. ❤️ Please let me know when you see him during your practices, too. 🙏🏻

10/22/2025

In the 1990s, the yoga classes I attended were labeled as Power Yoga, and those still exist today. However, thankfully, the yoga world in the West is evolving along with ourselves, and many more yoga practices today are less directed towards physical fitness than they are about overall well-being.

That's not to say my yoga practice isn't a good workout. It can be, and today's may feel like a workout more so than others. However, the focus is not on getting our bodies in shape or making ourselves smaller (never!).

We may bring the heat today, but it's for the purpose of creating change -- whether that's in our energy levels early in the morning, the outlook with which we approach the rest of our day, supporting all the choices we have to make, or anything else that helps us move towards the best version of ourselves.

This is never about improving ourselves. It's about bringing out the goodness that's already within us.

Sound like a good way to start your day? Join us on Friday for Morning Yoga (also available on Mondays and Wednesdays). Register using the link below. No payment is required or expected to attend my live, at-home Zoom classes. Come practice with us and feel the positive changes.

https://batch-of-sky-yoga.offeringtree.com/schedule

10/20/2025

🌿 Yoga Enthusiast of the Month 🌿

The best part of my job is connecting with others. I've been introduced to so many remarkable human beings through teaching yoga, and they inspire me to be a better teacher and a better person. Each month, I share with you someone I'm grateful to have met.

Carol is a dedicated yoga practitioner. She's been doing this a long time, and her sunny disposition is no doubt a product of her commitment to her practice. I've been honored to see her in my classes for at least two years now. She appreciates the opportunity to slow down and feel things out, which just happens to be the way I love to teach. Carol has a wonderful way of always finding the positive in any situation, and her approach to life is contagious.

She has an amazingly green thumb, and her thriving houseplants and gorgeous yard are proof. She spends a lot of time outside tending to her plants, lawn, and all the pretty twinkle lights scattered throughout her backyard. She's also a professional dog sitter with loyal clients for decades, and if I had a dog I'd trust its life with her! Carol takes good care of herself, flowers, animals and is still always in a pleasant mood. We should all be like Carol!

10/15/2025

So happy to announce our next event with -- an Autumnal Sound Meditation on November 7th at 5:30 pm.

Come enjoy an outdoor sound meditation. Kris Massey is a certified sound healer who will help clear our mind, calm our body, and soothe our nervous system as she shares her talents by playing a variety of sound healing instruments.

This session will be held in an idyllic private backyard near Dobson and Warner Roads in Chandler. Address will be provided up on registration.

Use the link below to save your spot. 🍁
https://batch-of-sky-yoga.offeringtree.com/offerings/autumnal-sound-meditation

10/13/2025

Thanks so much to everyone who reached out during my little fall break. I tried to make it a true vacation, and I appreciate your understanding. It's great to be back.

My whole trip was fabulous! Visiting with family was a priority. I got to see my parents and brother, his family, a few of my aunts, and a cousin.

I was also fortunate to connect last-minute with a dear friend from college...on bikes! Patty gathered gear for both of us, and we rode a portion of the Great Allegheny Passage (a rails-to-trails project that connects Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C.). She put a lot of thought and effort into what turned into a mystical and magical foggy morning spent on two wheels. I loved every moment.

Then, kindred spirits since fifth grade, Lori and I -- both empty nesters as of August -- visited Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island to nerd out to all the Anne of Green Gables points of interest. It was oh so lovely and felt thrilling to see the places that inspired L.M. Montgomery's masterpieces.

As if that wasn't enough, my daughter was on a business trip in New Brunswick, so we got to meet up with her for a few hours on the opposite side of the continent! I'm still so grateful for that unexpected opportunity because we hadn't seen each other since May. Look how happy Elizabeth and I look. I'm not crying, you're crying! Just kidding. I was totally crying.

That five-day trip to Canada was a beautiful way to reconnect with my best friend for forty years, someone who intensely impacted my past and present, and it was also a meaningful way to begin the transition into a new phase of life for each of us, together.

My unsolicited advice is to take the trip (or silly photo!) or eat the cake or buy the thing. However you want to translate it, you deserve some happiness, some fun, some time for you. As a bonus gift to yourself: lose the guilt over it.

09/28/2025

I'm fleeing the country! .... Temporarily at least.

Everyone deserves a break now and then. We know this to be true, but sometimes offering ourselves some time to pause feels like a hard thing to do. So I'm allowing myself a brief hiatus, and I'm feeling good about it.

A few months ago, my closest friend while growing up proposed we go on a trip together. After much deliberation, we decided to visit Prince Edward Island, Canada -- the setting of the wildly popular Anne of Green Gables books we enjoyed reading way back in the day.

So my bosom friend and I are looking forward to exploring the land of Anne and Diana. I'm also looking forward to seeing my parents and my brother and his family for a few days in Pittsburgh.

There will be no live, at-home yoga practices via Zoom until October 8th at 5:30 am PST, so please register for Morning Yoga now and we'll meet again then.

Though I'm not available to teach my in-person classes at LA Fitness either, subs are lined up so that the classes will go on! But please know you always have the opportunity to practice with me anytime through the Batch of Sky Yoga Membership.

Each class in my digital library is about 30 minutes in length, and practicing at home has many advantages. You get to choose the practice. You get to set the time. You don't have to drive anywhere. You can wear your pajamas without the tiniest bit of shame! I delight in making it easy and practical for you to consistently come to your mat

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09/26/2025

Our Morning Yoga practice today was inspired by my dream from last night.

I woke up from a version of my recurring nightmare: I'm back in college, though it looks nothing like it. I have a paper, dot-matrix-printed schedule in hand, but my mind is unable to process it. I don't know when my classes are, so I'm anxiously fretting over missing them. It's a terrible feeling, and when I wake up I'm always so relieved that none of it is true. I'm definitely not in college, and I'm currently late for nothing. 🙌🏻 Thank goodness!

The truth can set us free from worry and unease. When we stop to think about it, we may notice how easily our inner dialogue and subconscious tell us stories about ourselves, others, and situations. We may also realize that those stories are often not grounded in truth.

So this morning we revisited the concept of satya (benevolent truthfulness) and did our best to embody the honesty and authenticity within ourselves and the world around us. We called the truth into us, let it permeate throughout our body, and honored and respected the idea and power of the truth.

When we sit with and embody our own honesty and authenticity, those in our presence are more likely to feel as though they are able to do so too.

Here are some scenes from our practice. It was a lovely, rolling-around-on-the-ground practice to support our mind, body, and nervous system. Fridays are when we do less to give ourselves more.

Maybe you have an untrue recurring nightmare or feel a different kind of personal or painful defiance of the truth. DM me if you'd like me to send this practice to you. ❤️

09/24/2025

What a lovely and optimistic way to put it. 🥰

I'm hopeful we can work together to get ourselves out of what feels like a real mess lately.

I'm going to keep showing up, working to put the best version of myself out there, helping to make our world more inclusive and compassionate in the ways I know I can -- through my words and my actions.

I'll hold space for those who wish to move and breathe on their mats in order to find some inner peace. I'll do what I can to support their effort off the mat as well.

I'll continue to listen to the experts, academics, and scientists to seek out truth and, starting right now, will give no regard to those who lie or twist the truth for their own personal benefit. They don't deserve my energy, and living in a constant state of disgust doesn't feel healthy.

My intention: Stand up for what you know is right. Don't lose hope. Take care of yourself, yet remember to be kind to everyone else. ❤️

09/23/2025

I just finished reading this novel. It's a modern day "David Copperfield," and it's honestly quite a bit to digest. But I couldn't put it down, because I was rooting for the main character with all I had.

The word empathy has been out and about quite a bit lately, and I'm all for it. Sympathy has its purpose too, but being able to at least try to put yourself in another's shoes, especially someone with whom you have very little in common, can be a true turning point in our world view.

I don't live in Appalachia. I wasn't born into a cycle of poverty. I've never taken any painkillers stronger than Advil or Tylenol, so my privileged self held an impression about "those folks." And my impression was wrong.

Though this story is fictional, the author did extensive research on the delicate subjects touched upon here.

Circumstances can be significant, and "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" isn't as simple as some like to believe. Oftentimes, it's impossible due to systemic barriers.

When more of us see those barriers, understand those barriers, and work to help remove those barriers, we may be able to make positive change. Together.

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