by Beryl Bender Birch | Jan 20, 2016 | News
{This blog is a little longer than I like – but worth it!} Got thinking about sugar after leading a weekend of yoga teacher training a few weeks ago (post Christmas holidays), when I happened to make a reference to my past life efforts to get A’s in Christmas...
by Beryl Bender Birch | Sep 7, 2015 | News
Just the slightest ruffle of a breeze . . . the late afternoon, late summer green branches shimmer and dance slightly. 80 degrees and mildly humid, nearly perfectly clear blue sky. A few yellow leaves beginning to float down when the breeze blows. Sun a little lower...
by Beryl Bender Birch | Aug 14, 2015 | News
Wonderful Day – from meditation to a three mile hike this morning to cooking a chuck roast for the dogs with carrots, celery, kale, potatoes, and string beans (all from local CSA and farm stand), to evening now – Just sitting’ on the front steps of...
by Beryl Bender Birch | Nov 27, 2014 | News
You may be all over expressing gratitude on this day of Giving Thanks, especially if you are a yoga practitioner – you are surrounded by encouragement to feel grateful. And so for that, we are grateful. Yes, grateful for family and friends and heat and shelter...
by Beryl Bender Birch | Nov 21, 2014 | News
Morning Meditation Brrrrr – bringing in a few armloads of wood for the wood stove – smoke from the smoldering overnight fire spiraling up through the cold daybreak air – my Siberian husky, Nellie, sniffing the air for signs of the coyote that crossed...