I am proud and honored to share that on Wednesday, October 1st, I am the Arthritis Foundation's WOMEN INSPIRING CHANGE Benefit Luncheon Emcee. I would love to have you cheering me on at the Concourse as I emcee this important fundraising and awareness event for women. My mom suffers from SEVERE systemic arthritis, so I'll be having her join me at this event, and I'll be talking about the impact that arthritis has had on her body (and how she's persevered despite it!). We'll also be …
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Yoga is for Everyone: Why Body-Positive Yoga Matters
I am honored to present for you another guest post this week, written by my good friend Cheryl Breuer. Cheryl is a certified Curvy Yoga teacher and the owner of Verbena Yoga & Wellness LLC. When I started teaching yoga classes for bigger-bodied people, I got some pushback from the yoga community. “Yoga is for everyone!” they said. “People of all shapes and sizes are welcome in my classes.” I also got some pushback from yogis themselves. “I am a big person and I resent that you think …
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DiSC’ing the Fertile Fields
Earlier this summer I took a trip home to Central Illinois, where I grew up. While there, I stayed at my grandparent's old farmstead, which we lovingly called Snicarte (sny-car-tee). My grandparents, now deceased, raised 5 kids and many cows, pigs, and chickens on this 300+ acre parcel, and I spent many memorable week-ends, holidays, and summertimes there as a kid. That visit got me thinking about life as a farmer...and pondering the cyclical life of farmers. In the spring, farmers get out in …
We Came, We Played, We Painted…and we’ll do it again!
Last Friday, Sara Alvarado and I hosted Soul Play for a Day: A Spiritual + Creative Retreat for Women. What a rousing success! Thirteen women gathered for a day of SOUL PLAY. We were lead in our opening ceremony by Shaman Julie Hogan of the Spiritual Sanctuary, we discussed the meaning and roots of spirituality for each of us, we meditated, we ate a mindful + silent lunch, we walked in nature, we danced together, and we learned to intuitively paint. Above all, every single participant left …
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Sara Speaks: Embracing Creativity
This week, I have a treat for all of you. Please welcome the words of a guest post written by my good friend and fellow Soul Play organizer, Sara Alvarado. It was mainly the spiritual part that attracted me to this new coaching program my coach told me about last year. I knew there was a creative piece to it but I pretended that wouldn’t be a big part of it and I didn’t want it to influence me not to do it. My coach is an artist. And I had it in my mind that I was a business woman with a …
