Wake up with the sun, and I don’t mean the actual sun, unless you’re a morning person! Wake up with the sun salutations. The yoga sun salutations, or surya namaskar, is a full body warm up. You can take these postures at any pace, modify the positions, add things in, and can be a great foundation to your practice.

This question comes up a lot. How can we put more structure onto our organizing and clearing out so that it doesn’t become overwhelming? When we plan ahead, set expectations, and make habits, organizing becomes more a part of our daily lives and less of a burden.

I’ve had to take a step back from intense physical movement to heal an injury lately. The movement always helped with the injury, but in order to fully and truly heal this time, I had to pause. One of the things that I’ve had two of my favorite teachers tell me is that visualizing the movement is just has beneficial as actually doing it.

We all love HGTV. House hunting, organizing, hoarders. Not necessarily doing those things, but watching other people do them is lots of fun. What happens when we spend hours of our days watching TV shows and reading about organizing in magazines?

When we think about yoga, we primarily think about the physical practice. We think about attending classes, getting the heart rate up, doing a movement practice. We might also think about breath, but past that, if we haven’t experienced yoga, we don’t know about all of the other parts that make up our yoga practice.

We’ve all spent the better part of the last year in our houses. We may have realized how our space is or is not working for us. We’ve noticed all the things we have that we might not need. And/ or we’ve started to clean out or wanted to but didn’t know where or how to start.

We can't always make it to our mat. As much as we'd like to, life gets in the way. Just because we can't make it to our mat everyday, doesn't mean we can't practice everyday. If all you have time for is 10 minutes a day - get on your mat (or carpet, or hardwood or bed).

When deciding what to write about next in this blog, I looked back at some of the most common questions I get from friends and family, and it’s almost ALWAYS about the kitchen. Here are some of the challenges I’ve heard and seen when it comes to organizing the kitchen.