Befriend your body. Rewrite the story of your life.
Share your BirthStory
Bridge the digital world by sharing the imperfect perfect story of your child’s birth.
Just paste your story below. I’m not going to grade it. I’m not going to check your grammar. I’m definitely not going to force you to do anything you don’t want to do.
(If there are parts that might inspire other women, I will ask for your permission before I show them your bold act.)
Work with me
I am a wisdom guide, combining intuitive healing, Ayurveda, and the deeper teachings of yoga.
I teach Ayurveda , but not as a list of rules.
Through my membership program, you’ll learn how to access an inner knowing about your body. Break free from perfectionism and live in true health.
I teach yoga , but not only as a physical experience.
Joining The Nest gives you access to the deeper teachings and practices of yoga designed to support the single most defining factor in your health -- your mind.
The Journal
Breath
When my mother texted to tell me that the doctors had found cancer in her lungs, I called and yelled at her. Standing on the streets of New York City, I was one more voice in the irate cacophony of the Financial District, sharing my outrage that some things should not be delivered over text.
It had never occurred to me that it might be too painful to say out loud.
Introduction to Yoga Nidra with Me
How to set up for SevaMama digital yoga classes I like to keep a home yoga practice very simple. For all classes, I suggest you have two yoga blocks and a folding chair (or an ottoman, coffee table, or couch) to use for savasana at the end of practice. In most...
Valentine’s Day Card: On Gratitude and Taking a Complaint Fast
I struggle with Spanish. No, let me say it this way: Lucho con el español.
This can be a problem for me, as I live in Mexico and most people I know are Mexican.
I studied Spanish for years in school, but, until now, I hid my fluency in the pages of my textbooks. Any student knows there is very little to be learned from those 1000-page tomes. So now that I am enrolled in the Spanish of Hard Knocks, I tell myself this story: Learning a new language is hard.
This story bounces around in my head every time I go to open my mouth. It catches the words on my tongue and destroys me before I conjugate my first verb.
“On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure.”
The Bhagavad Gita 2:40