Author: grkeyo

Recently my mother received an email from a friend who used the French term aux anges (meaning: “blissfully happy” or “over the moon”) to refer to the many upcoming births among their friends’ collective families. The coincidence that these births will all happen in mid to late March seemed all that more significant as March…

I had the honor of training with Nikki Myers last weekend, after making the decision to start my certification as a Y12SR instructor. Y12SR was founded by Nikki in 2004 as a way to delicately integrate the practice of yoga with the 12-step recovery model. In the Y12SR About Us description, it states: “Addictive behaviors…

“Faith is a muscle. What we need will be given to us.” -Gabby Bernstein I had the honor of seeing Gabrielle Bernstein (“Gabby” as she is known to her friends, family, and fans) at Omega last weekend. It was a solo trip I’d decided to take for a few reasons…the main reason being that it…

I was reminded of the twelfth step in the traditional Twelve-Step program last night after I left my last session with my therapist. The twelfth step says: “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”…

Not too long ago, I was presented with an opportunity to make a change. It was an attractive offer simply because it was a way out of my current situation of [fill-in-the-blank: loneliness, sadness, boredom, frustration, fear, etc.] and for that, I rationalized that I should just take it. But instead, I turned it down.…

Okay, I get it now. After leading the first local chapter meeting of Danielle LaPorte’s Desire Map Book Club, I realized that what Danielle is asking us to think about are our core desired feelings, not the static goals that we may or may not achieve. For example, a traditional approach to goal-setting is to…

Those who know me well know that I throw myself entirely into every task, project, or idea I’ve ever had. I create, establish, execute, and solve problems. I am hard-working, organized, and responsible. Because I demand a lot from myself, I demand a lot from others. And not surprisingly, I often feel like my efforts…

comfort – noun: a state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint. I have never written publicly about my father or his recent health scare this past fall. It was a time during which we, his family, struggled with the notion that a man who rarely slows down for anything might never walk…

“Vitality is a sensation, and it requires a sensitivity to signals and surroundings – and the courage to flow and shout and stomp your feet in sync with the signals of life.” -Danielle LaPorte A few weeks ago, as I was teaching vinyasa to my yoga students, I stopped to think about how I spend…

Red lipstick has historically been associated with sex, power, and courage. Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor made red lips sultry while Madonna and Gwen Stefani made them edgy. Despite having impulsively purchased red lipstick over the years, the lonely tubes usually sat in my bathroom closet collecting dust until I rediscovered them years later and…