Yoga With Spirit

10/19/2025

Spent fall break in Idaho! Thanks to .c.lodge for being a graceful hostess and amazing tour guide. Jim Dolan and I loved every minute of exploring your beautiful home state!

Cottonwoods glowed on the way from Boise to Stanley.

Sawtooth selfie. These mountains are incredible sharp and pointy!

The fall colors and beautiful creek in the valley across the street from the mountain view in Stanley was almost as beautiful.

The fall colors in Ketchum were breathtaking!

Dinner (with wildlife) at Ketchum’s famous Pioneer.

The first of Jim Dolan’s two dozen + trout caught in The Big Wood River south of Ketchum. One of his favorite days of fishing of all time.

Pre- post-dinner hot tub at The Sun Valley Lodge.

Perrine Bridge over the Snake River. Just a mile from where Evel Kneival tried to jump the river on a motorcycle. We learned that his son made the jump years later! Can you believe the color of the river??

Perhaps my favorite sight of the trip - Balanced Rock. Carved by wind, it’s 48 feet tall, weighs 40 tons, and is perched on a tiny 3’ base. So cool!

The very best friends drive you to the Oregon border so you can check off your 47th state! 💛💛💛

10/10/2025

“Welcome to the Grief Club: the club that nobody asked to join, where membership is automatic after losing someone they love.” I had no idea I’d joined a club – let alone that it was the least exclusive club on the planet. We will all be members one day. That’s a guarantee. Each of our stores begins with birth and will end with death. In between, in a billion different ways, we all love and we all lose. For 100% of us, the blessing of loving and being loved far outweighs the painful cost of loss that is the entry fee for joining the “grief club” - where other tender-hearted “members” are there waiting to listen and support you.

Click the link in my bio to read my full essay.

10/10/2025

“Welcome to the Grief Club: the club that nobody asked to join, where membership is automatic after losing someone they love.” I had no idea I’d joined a club – let alone that it was the least exclusive club on the planet. We will all be members one day. That’s a guarantee. Each of our stores begins with birth and will end with death. In between, in a billion different ways, we all love and we all lose. For 100% of us, the blessing of loving and being loved far outweighs the painful cost of loss that is the entry fee for joining the “grief club” - where other tender-hearted “members” are there waiting to listen and support you.

Click here to read my full essay.

Every one of us loves and loses. For 100% of us, loving and being loved far outweighs the painful cost of loss. This is the universal human condition.

10/10/2025

Well folks, it’s 5 years and 7 months since my TMJ-induced dental odyssey began, but today it’s officially came to an end! Thanks to the expert care of my dentist, periodontist, orthodontist and TMJ physical therapist, I am excited to be able to “say cheese” confidently once again! 😃 😃 😃

10/06/2025

I wouldn’t have necessarily put these pinks together, but who am I to argue with Mother Nature?

10/03/2025

Good morning. What happens in your head when you sit or lie down to rest? Are you, like me, making lists? Maybe repeating those lists over and over so you don’t forget when you stand up? Are you so busy wondering if you’ve had enough rest that you’re hardly resting at all? Why do so few of us know how to truly rest? Resting both requires and teaches us to be where our body is. Being fully present like this is a skill that is really hard for us, but, when we figure it out, makes us much happier people.

Click here to read my full essay.

Photo credit to

10/03/2025

Good morning. What happens in your head when you sit or lie down to rest? Are you, like me, making lists? Maybe repeating those lists over and over so you don’t forget when you stand up? Are you so busy wondering if you’ve had enough rest that you’re hardly resting at all? Why do so few of us know how to truly rest? Resting both requires and teaches us to be where our body is. Being fully present like this is a skill that is really hard for us, but, when we figure it out, makes us much happier people.

Click here to read my full essay.

Photo credit to Bill Ecklund

Why do so few of us not know how to truly rest? Resting both requires and teaches us to be in the present moment. This is a skill that makes us happier people.

10/02/2025

I meant it the first time we exchanged vows in 1993 and our fourth time in 2023, and I’d say “I love you for better or worse” again today. 💛 Happy 32nd anniversary, Jim Dolan.

09/26/2025

Good morning - Five years ago, I began to practice a pace of life that Matthew McConaughey calls a saunter. A slower pace and less jam-packed days feel a hundred times better than my whirling dervish of a busy life ever did. It still takes work to live this way (and I still catch myself slipping back toward busyness) but deliberately slowing down so that I’m more present to everything is worth every bit of the effort.

Click the link in my bio to read my full essay.

09/26/2025

Good morning - Five years ago, I began to practice a pace of life that Matthew McConaughey calls a saunter. A slower pace and less jam-packed days feel a hundred times better than my whirling dervish of a busy life ever did. It still takes work to live this way (and I still catch myself slipping back toward busyness) but deliberately slowing down so that I’m more present to everything is worth every bit of the effort.

Click here to read my full essay.

For 5 years I’ve practiced a pace of life that Matthew McConaughey calls a saunter. A slower pace and less jam-packed days feel better than busyness ever did!

09/19/2025

Do you make it a point to exercise your creativity? I know some of you are thinking, “I don’t have a creative bone in my body,” but what you do doesn’t have to involve art. And it doesn’t have to result in a giftable or even Instagram-able product. It doesn’t even have to be useful. Creativity doesn’t have to have a point beyond the fact that pausing to take a break from your regularly scheduled life to be creative can change the way you see and do everything else. So, what will you do today to be creative?

If you’d like to read on, click the link in my bio.

09/19/2025

Good morning! Do you make it a point to exercise your creativity? I know some of you are thinking, “I don’t have a creative bone in my body,” but what you do doesn’t have to involve art. And it doesn’t have to result in a giftable or even Instagram-able product. It doesn’t even have to be useful. Creativity doesn’t have to have a point beyond the fact that pausing to take a break from your regularly scheduled life to be creative can change the way you see and do everything else. So, what will you do today to be creative?

If you’d like to read on, click here.

Creativity doesn’t have to involve art. It doesn’t have be useful. If you do something just for the joy of doing it, you’re probably exercising your creativity.