Hello, hello. I hope you guys are well. I’m coming off a stretch of four consecutive nights row of holiday parties/gatherings/celebrations so it feels nice to be cozy at home and cooking myself a meal tonight. Pork tenderloin, roasted sweet potatoes and roasted brussel sprouts are on the menu. I plan to watch a mindless, [...]
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Week In The Life: Working, Momming, Running + More
October 13, 2023 { 2 comments }Happy Friday everyone. I’m enjoying some pre-dawn quiet time with my laptop and a cup of coffee. I got up at 5a this morning to do some writing and computer work because once the sun is up, Finn is up and the day kicks off – it’s going to be go, go, go! I am [...]
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Summer of Yoga + Life Lately
August 15, 2023 { 1 comment }Hi there. It’s been another extended period for me between posts but at this point I’m considering it a summer break of sorts. It’s not that my mind isn’t overflowing with ideas for posts and things to write about – it’s just that life has been full this summer. I will also admit that on [...]
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Yoga News: My Next Charlotte-Area 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training!
July 18, 2023 { 1 comment }I am thrilled to share details on the next 200-hour yoga teacher training that I’ll be offering in the Charlotte area this fall. I am partnering with Johnna Smith to co-create and facilitate a 200-hour advanced yoga studies program at 8th Limb Yoga. This training is really special for me because it’s the first teacher [...]
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Breath-Focused Weekend + Recent Eats: Salad Bowls + Sandwiches
July 3, 2023 { 0 comments }Hi friends! Happy Monday and happy July. I hope the new week and new month are off to a great start for you. WEEKEND IN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING WITH ALL THE PRANAYAMA I spent this past weekend taking yoga teacher training (I’m participating in an advanced studies program this summer through Asheville Yoga Center). I [...]
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Week In Review
June 23, 2023 { 2 comments }Hi, hello, happy Friday! It’s 9:30p on Friday and I have finally landed myself on the couch with my feet up and it’s glorious. I’m watching the first episode of Glamorous on Netflix and so far, it’s cute and easy. Alrighty. Here’s my week in review. MONDAY Monday started and ended with yoga with yoga [...]
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Listening, Reading, Watching
May 22, 2023 { 6 comments }Happy new week – I hope it’s off to a great start! I don’t have much to report from the weekend. Finn was with his dad so I did a lot of land lording, working and yoga. I also squeezed in some long walks with these two cuties. A friend moved into my rental house [...]
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9 Podcasts I’ve Loved Lately + 20-Minute Treadmill Workout + More Faves
April 1, 2023 { 2 comments }Hello, hello! I hope y’all had a great week. I am popping in to share a few favorites before I head off to Charlotte Yoga to lead an assist training for our staff. Let’s kick it off with things I’ve been listening to! It’s been a minute since I shared a round up of podcasts [...]
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A Week In The Life
January 27, 2023 { 22 comments }Happy Friday y’all! I don’t even know where the week went but somehow I made it to the end of it and am writing this post from my hotel room in Harrisburg, PA. Flight schedules were such that I got in late morning but I don’t teach until 6p tonight. Luckily, I was able to [...]
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Weekending
January 16, 2023 { 2 comments }Hello my friends. I am coming to you bright and early on this Monday morning to recap the weekend. It felt like the most ideal blend of downtime, out time and workouts. Let’s jump straight in! FRIDAY I had Finn with me on Friday until noon. We made the most of our last few hours [...]
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2 Weeks of Workouts + Exciting Fitness Updates
December 6, 2022 { 6 comments }Hi friends! I hope your week is off to a great start. Back in the olden days of blogging I used to regularly share a recap of my weekly workouts. I abandoned that sometime around pregnancy and becoming a mom but every now and then I like to share a current picture of my workout [...]
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Yoga + Mom Life Lately
November 15, 2022 { 6 comments }Well, here I am watching season three of Love Is Blind. I wasn’t going to do it this season but just kept reading and hearing so much about it so it’s good background entertainment while I write this post. I can already see that Cole is going to be quite the character. I got Finn [...]
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YTT Weekend: What You Practice Grows Stronger
September 27, 2022 { 1 comment }Greetings friends! I didn’t mean to disappear on you for almost a week but there’s been a lot of action and moving around. I took off for teacher training at Vidya Yoga & Fitness midday on Friday. I was proud of myself for the level of organization that I executed in preparation for the weekend. [...]
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Our Florida Beach Week
August 13, 2022 { 4 comments }Happy weekend. I am writing this post from my hotel room in Kingsport, Tennessee. I am here leading the first weekend of 200-hour yoga teacher training at Vidya Yoga & Fitness. I cannot believe that I started working with the team at VYF back in 2018 when Finn was four months old and now we [...]
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Little of This, Little of That
May 10, 2022 { 3 comments }Hello and happy new week. Much thanks for your comments, DMs and emails on my last post. It’s so nice when blogging feels more like a conversation and I get to interact with and know you guys a little more! I’ll try to write more than one “Currently” style of post per year. ;) It’s [...]
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Weekend Favorites: Daylight Savings Time Edition
March 13, 2022 { 2 comments }Happy Sunday and happy Daylight Savings Time. I didn’t much mind losing an hour of sleep last night given that I was in bed reading at 11p last night (I’m reading The Paris Apartment) and slept until 8a this morning. I am very much looking forward to the extended daylight. I’ve noticed a significant shift [...]
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Happy Valentine’s Day + A Gorgeous February Weekend
February 14, 2022 { 1 comment }Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope you’re having a beautiful day and that you enjoy a sweet treat at some point today. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! I kicked off my Valentine’s Day by teaching a yoga class at Charlotte Yoga. I made sure to pull out all of my pink for the occasion. My message to my class [...]
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My Weekend In Tennessee + Finn’s Renaissance Festival
November 21, 2021 { 10 comments }I arrived home about an hour ago from spending the weekend in east Tennessee. I wrapped another 200-hour yoga teacher training with the team at Vidya Yoga and Fitness. It was our fourth training since we kicked off our very first one in September 2018 and our second training in 2021. We ran one from [...]
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Weekend + What I Bought at Trader Joe’s
October 12, 2021 { 3 comments }Hi friends. Last you heard from me I had just arrived home from a week in Florida. My weekend took a bit of a wrong turn when my lawn crew somehow cut my buried fiber internet line when they were aerating and seeding the lawn on Saturday morning. Perplexingly, my neighborhood is a dead zone [...]
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How Are You?
August 17, 2021 { 14 comments }The days feel heavy right now. On a literal level, it’s hot, humid and I can’t go outside without getting a mosquito bite (the mosquito thing is mostly a joke but if they love you like they love me, you get it!). On a mental level, it’s a lot to absorb everything going on in [...]
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Low-Key Weekending
July 31, 2021 { 4 comments }Happy weekend friends! I’m enjoying a rare weekend in Charlotte while Finn is with his dad and it’s been nice and low-key…and full of yoga! I took my friend Rian’s class at 5:30p on Friday at Charlotte Yoga and it was everything I needed it to be and so much more. It was hot, hard, [...]
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Summer Camp Is In Session + Life Lately + Upcoming Events
July 21, 2021 { 9 comments }Hi, hi! I hope y’all are having a great week. My week has felt a little jumbled because I’ve subbed some extra classes and had Finn on a night that I usually don’t but all is good! I have some exciting news… SUMMER CAMP IS IN SESSION Doggie summer camp is in session! Bear arrived [...]
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Getting Back Into Group Fitness Post-Pandemic
May 25, 2021 { 19 comments }Today I want to talk about getting back into group fitness post-pandemic. I know that we cannot say that the pandemic is over but many restrictions have been lifted for vaccinated individuals per the CDC’s guidance earlier in May. Here in North Carolina, our governor lifted our indoor mask mandate which means that vaccinated people [...]
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Burning Bright
April 27, 2021 { 4 comments }Tap, tap…is this thing on!? I haven’t written a post in eight days! My absence wasn’t intentional but the last week was a vortex where I accomplished on average 25% of what I thought I would when it came to anything other than yoga. It was graduation weekend for my VIDA Hot Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher [...]
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The Best Yoga Mats for Yoga and Fitness
April 14, 2021 { 5 comments }I’m so excited to chat yoga mats with you guys today. And not just yoga mats in general but the BEST yoga mats for everything from hot yoga to deep stretch to HIIT sessions to weight workouts and more. Without question, the piece of exercise equipment that I utilize the most is my yoga mat. [...]
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Monday In The Life: Toddler Bedtime, Brooks Hyperion, Breast Health + More
April 12, 2021 { 15 comments }Buckle up for a day in the life Monday. Actually, I want to rewind to Sunday night to start this post. My sweet boy is in a phase right now where he doesn’t want to go to sleep in his bed and wants to sleep in “mommy’s bed.” I put him down in his room [...]
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Saturday Randomness: Spring, Running, Hair, A Birthday + More
April 10, 2021 { 31 comments }I am popping in with a quick dose of Saturday randomness before I head out to film a few classes for Fit Revolution. REMINDER: use code PBEASTER to get 50% off of your first three months! And that’s AFTER you get your 14-day free trial so it comes out to well under $10/month. The code [...]
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6 Tips for Modifying Your Power Yoga Practice During Pregnancy
March 18, 2021 { 1 comment }I am almost three years out from practicing and teaching power yoga while pregnant but I still receive questions all the time about modifying power yoga for pregnancy while still maintaining a strong/regular practice. I recently relocated these prenatal yoga photos that Scott Broome shot for me a few weeks before my due date and [...]
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Injury Prevention: Recovery Tips + 5 Great Yoga Poses for Runners
March 2, 2021 { 11 comments }This is the third in a series of posts about preventing injuries for athletes. The first was about dynamic stretching for injury prevention , the second was about building core strength for injury prevention and today’s post is about recovery tips and my favorite yoga poses for runners. Did you know that I actually got [...]
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Yoga Weekend + Recent Eats
January 31, 2021 { 8 comments }My weekend was intense…but really good. I traveled to Kingsport, Tennessee to lead the second weekend of our yoga teacher training at VIDA Hot Yoga. This weekend we covered things like early class sequencing, the eight limbs of yoga, discussion of the Yamas ahimsa and stay, asana breakdowns, practice teaching, loving kindness practices and more. [...]
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Take The Leap
January 16, 2021 { 11 comments }Hello. Life is full at the moment but I feel equal parts very happy and very stressed. I am writing this post from bed in my hotel room in Kingsport, Tennessee. I’m here kicking off the first weekend of our third 200-hour yoga teacher training at VIDA Hot Yoga. It’s hard to believe that we [...]
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5 Tips for Balancing Running, Strength Training and Yoga In Your Weekly Workout Schedule
January 13, 2021 { 54 comments }One question that I have received consistently over the 10+ years that I’ve been blogging and posting on social media is how to balance running, strength training and yoga in a weekly workout schedule. Just yesterday, I received this question on Instagram… “How would you recommend balancing a schedule of yoga, running and strength? How [...]
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My Story with Chronic Hip Pain, Femoroacetabular Impingement and a Labral Tear
September 2, 2020 { 37 comments }In this post I am sharing my story with chronic hip pain, being diagnosed with a labral tear and femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and how I’ve successfully reduced pain levels and avoided surgery for nearly a year post-diagnosis. THE BACKSTORY + ONSET My right hip started hurting at mile 16 of the Marine Corps Marathon in [...]
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Currently (August 2020)
August 20, 2020 { 55 comments }Hi and happy Thursday! I am borrowing today’s post theme from two of my favorite Chrarlotte-area blogger friends. Julie and Brittany have both shared “Currently” posts lately. I love reading them and I thought it would be a nice way to add a little variety. Currently reading: This is actually what I just finished reading. [...]
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Making Space
July 19, 2020 { 5 comments }HELLO! It’s hard to believe that it’s been a week since we have been home from Florida and what a week it’s been. I got back and jumped into projects, meetings, teaching and teacher training. It’s been a great week but a busy one. I spent pretty much the entirety of my weekend leading the [...]
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Moving Forward Meaningfully
June 8, 2020 { 4 comments }I did not post the black square on Instagram and I didn’t announce that I was muting myself. Those things felt forced and unauthentic for me. It was a personal decision and comes with no judgment to those who participated in these actions. While I did not set out to intentionally mute myself, I just [...]
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MDW: Donating Blood, Yoga for Back Care + Benji Goes to Training “Camp”
May 25, 2020 { 4 comments }I hope this finds you feeling rested and restored after the long weekend. I have an established track record of not doing anything especially exciting for Memorial Day Weekend and this year was no different…which was fine with me. It was a weird holiday weekend anyway given the current state of things so I truly [...]
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4 Gates of Speech + Mother’s Day
May 12, 2020 { 16 comments }Over the weekend I completed another online module for my 300-hour yoga teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center. This one was Yoga, Chakras and Consciousness with Michael Johnson and I found it to be educational and enjoyable. Personally, I really resonate with Michael’s style of teaching. He is CRAZY smart and knowledgable in a way [...]
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Positive Ways To Deal
April 16, 2020 { 8 comments }Good morning. What an up and down week it’s been. Remember that graphic I shared a couple of weeks ago? I am really living this right now. THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER OF CORONAVIRUS (Graphic is from @now.or.noodles on Instagram and drawn by Hannah Reeves.) One of the most unsettling things about all of this is the [...]
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Yoga for Better Sleep: 5 Simple Yoga Poses to Practice Before Bed
March 24, 2020 { 2 comments }This post is sponsored by CVS Pharmacy. This post topic is one that I feel so passionately about, especially given my status as a toddler mom coupled with daylight savings and all the things going on in the world right now. SLEEP! Never in my life have I valued and prioritized sleep in my life [...]
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A New Normal + Planning for Online Classes
March 19, 2020 { 22 comments }Good morning. How’s your heart today? Your head? Just when I think I’ve absorbed what life is right now, things change again or I read something that sends me back down the rabbit hole. I think I am going to have to start setting a boundary of only reading the news once a day to [...]
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Commencement
February 6, 2020 { 7 comments }A few weeks ago when I was at Asheville Yoga Center for the Viniyoga module for my 300-hour teacher training, the AYC teacher training program manager came in on Sunday to recognize a few yogis who were graduating from the 300-hour program. Gary Kraftsow, who was leading our Viniyoga training, made the suggestion to the [...]
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The Best Ever Pizza-Inspired Spaghetti Squash Casserole
January 21, 2020 { 14 comments }I have been making this spaghetti squash casserole for going on five years now and I think it’s safe to say at this point that it is in the top 10 when it comes to the number of times that I’ve made a specific recipe. I have hesitated to share the recipe on my blog [...]
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Asana Unlocked + The Best Asheville Airbnb
January 20, 2020 { 235 comments }I am back in Charlotte after a truly wonderful weekend in Asheville studying the Viniyoga method with Gary Kraftsow as part of my 300-hour teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center. While I was there I had the pleasure of staying in a friend’s Airbnb apartment and it was the best Airbnb experience that I’ve ever [...]
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Central Pennsylvania Yoga Weekend: Master Classes, Twisting + Binding, Yoga For Runners…And Potato Donuts
January 12, 2020 { 7 comments }Last weekend I traveled to the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area to teach yoga to the awesome yogis at Ethos Fitness and Studio B Power Yoga. This was my fourth trip to central Pennsylvania in the last three years! After smooching this one goodbye on Friday morning, I hopped on a flight and arrived in PA around [...]
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Weekend (YOGA) Update
December 28, 2019 { 3 comments }This post title is in reference to Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment…but back when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-anchored. They were the first-ever all-female anchor team and I thought the two of them played off of each other beautifully and hysterically. Gosh, I used to really enjoy SNL and my all-time favorite segments [...]
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That is beauty. That is inner peace. That is self-love.
December 11, 2019 { 23 comments }I spent last weekend in Kingsport, Tennessee leading the sixth weekend of our 200-hour yoga teacher training program at VIDA Hot Yoga. I think I have shared with you guys in a previous post that this is my first all-female training group. While I’m always amazed by how each teacher training group has its own [...]
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All the Laundry Smells + 30-Minute Strength-Building Power Yoga Flow
December 4, 2019 { 7 comments }This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Clorox. All opinions are 100% mine. I’ve got a popular post topic coming for you today…laundry and dealing with unwelcome smells! This is seriously not a joke. Every time I write posts on dealing with smelly laundry (and I’ve written several over the years!), [...]
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Weekend + Welcome Mom
November 25, 2019 { 5 comments }Happy Thanksgiving week, friends! :) My mom arrived in Charlotte yesterday morning to spend some time with me and Finn. We are so happy to have her here but definitely missing my dad and grandmother down in Florida. Thanksgiving is my most favorite holiday of them all because I love how it’s family and food [...]
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cOMunnity
November 10, 2019 { 1 comment }Hello friends. I am currently a puddle on my couch after a long weekend of travel and work. I spent the weekend in Tennessee at VIDA Hot Yoga to lead our fourth weekend of yoga teacher training. Overall, it was an incredible weekend but they are so very “all in” and exhausting. I felt this [...]