Cowgirl Yogi

I just read “7 lessons you should teach your daughter” or something, I was expecting to be blown away. Oh good, someone out there is thinking about how important it is to raise strong, amazing, caring and magic people!  But no.  alas, this article wasn’t written for me.  It was written by someone who wants her daughter to grow up pretty and marry well.  So I decided I’d just create my own. There are a million things I want to teach my daughter, but if I could only tell her 7 things, right now these would be it: 1) You are a badass. 2) Being a badass doesn’t mean you get to win all the time. It doesn’t mean you can be rude to people who do not understand you are a badass.  Being a badass means that you are completely in control of your own feelings, reactions and interactions with the world. A true badass is kind and loving to everyone, because there is no reason not to be. 3) From the moment you were born, I knew you were a bad...

"why is that lady touching me?" a hear a whisper from the back of a crowed yoga room.  a whisper back- "she's just giving you an adjustment, aren't they great?"  "what was it supposed to do?"  Now let's ignore the two coffee chatters in the yoga class (one of my giant pet peeves, worth 3 rants and at least one chapter in a book, so we will put a pin in it for now)  but Chatty Kathy has a point, why is that lady touching me?  Now I love a good sacrum press in child's pose as much as the next yogi,  note I said I love a GOOD sacrum press.  I have been told by other yoga teachers  that there are some adjustments, "you just can't do wrong!"  oh would that that were true!  the yoga world would be such a shiny happy place!  as it is, I have been on the receiving end of a not so good adjustment countless times and on the receiving end of a down right horrible, holy crap what the fuck did you just do to me "adjustment...

Anybody wanna learn some yoga?  I got some yoga over here! Great yoga! Moving and breathing and smiling and loving yourself just like you are kinda yoga!  This is premium shit! Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?   Good lord the yoga teacher hustle is exhausting.  I’m sure anyone who works freelance can feel me here.  I absolutely love what I do and I believe that I am walking my path.  And I know lord Ganesh is playing hide and seek right around the corner and he is going to stomp all over some mother fucking obstacles.  Any minute now.   Any minute . . . now!    Any minute. This is a difficult line to walk.  I just want to be able to practice my craft, but in order for me to be able to do that I have to do things like “network”, and I am now one of those phone people, constantly glued to it in case there’s a last minute cry for a sub.   I need to teach to live.  Not just because I am...