15-min Practice: HEALING HURTS MEDITATION
This week I want to offer you a meditation I recorded back in December that I really love called ALWAYS HEALING. It’s the perfect way to start healing physical aches, pains, and injuries. After doing the meditation, take some time to ponder which skillful actions you want to take to continue to heal. Your body […]
The Flight to Costa Rica That Ended My Cycle of Re-Injury
Several years ago in a hot yoga class in the middle of winter I pulled both of my hamstring attachments. At the time I didn’t know I was doing it. The room was so warm and steamy and the forward fold felt really good. Also the instructor (who I kinda had a girl crush on) […]
11-min Practice: ASK YOUR BODY for Answers
This week I’m so happy to teach you three really powerful practices to get answers from your own inner body on important decisions. Check out the below video. It’s just 11 minutes (and 3 techniques) to dial in and hear your body’s wisdom. Let me know how it goes!
It’s your body. It’s your life. It’s your choice.
Tensions are running high out there as we all rub our eyes, peek through the shades, and envision stepping into the world again. It may seem like time has been frozen for the past year, and you might feel like you should be able to waltz back into life as you knew it. But that’s […]
15-min Practice: THE STRENGTH TO ASCEND
Do you regularly experience how inwardly delicious it is when your spine is aligned? That feeling of LIFT or ASCENSION moving up through your center? It’s like being perfectly poised between heaven and earth… So I made a mini-practice about it. Check out the below video. It’s just 15 minutes and it’ll lift you up […]
Off me arse and out to play… You wanna come?
These pandemic days can be strangely intense – lots of mental activity, while physically going nowhere. I often spend great chunks of time fully absorbed in my computer, emotions coursing through my mind, while my body gradually curls into a tense hunch over the keyboard. Then, at some point, the task is done and I […]
3-Min Body Thanks practice with Ariel
Have you been bashing your poor body parts? That’s no way to treat this most extraordinary form you have the great privilege of inhabiting. Let’s turn the tides to kinder self-talk… 3-Min Body Thanks practice you can do with me RIGHT NOW:
“My belly is disgusting” and other nonsense
The habit of speaking cruelly to your body parts can be so deeply ingrained, that you don’t even realize you’re doing it. Looking in the mirror might trigger the thought, “Ick, my body hair keeps growing in the ugliest ways.” Or as you glance down in the shower you might utter, “Damn, my skin is […]
The weird moment I was called to be a yoga teacher
The reason I became a yoga teacher is simple: I was called. It happened 12 years ago when I was in a forward fold at a 6am yoga class at the Westwood LA YogaWorks. I attended those early classes because I had to be on the 9th floor of an adjacent office building by 9am. […]
Notes from the Idyllwild vision quest
I am here to report on the vision quest I did over the past weekend. It was… intense. I began fasting on Thursday afternoon at 4:30pm, intending to drink only water for the next three days – until Sunday at 4:30pm. After my final evening client, I stuffed outdoorsy gear into the back of the […]
