Hello New Year! More yoga, more dancing and just a little more crazy! David Bowie, Gwen Ifill, Glenn Frey, Prince, Merle Haggard and Leonard Cohen, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, John Glenn, George Michael, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Reagan, Carrie Fisher, Gene Wilder, Florance Handerson, Alan Thicke, Harper Lee, Doris Roberts, Arnold Palmer, Morley Safer, Edward Albee, Richard Adams…. to name just a few who passed away; 2016 has been a hard year on our hearts. With every passing soul

Desiree Wood This blog has been written by Desiree Wood Des is a Nurse Practitioner in Critical Care at the VA, Anatomy specialist for Spira Power Yoga Teacher Training, An Avid Yoga Practitioner at Spira Power Yoga and just an all around really good person…. —————– Resolution Revolution; A mindful new year for all After a busy holiday season and hectic work schedule, I rang in 2016 sound asleep by 10 pm, only to be briefly awoken at midnight by the distant sounds of firewor

So I will not talk of resolutions, I believe that topic has been chewed down to pure bone on mass media. I will rather talk of breath and perspectives. My yoga practice gives me a chance to breathe and take a break from my busy life. This hour for yoga has quite a paradoxical effect. I am not sure if it relates to quantum physics and time space continuum with alternate realities, but it happens every time. If you are a yoga practitioner then you are familiar with a feeling: Y

You want a New Year’s Resolution that will work guaranteed? Stop setting goals at New Year’s. To this of course you may say, OK Dora, do you seriously wish not to improve my life or to reach my goals? I say: heck no! That is not what I mean. I simply mean that goal setting is the wrong approach. To understand my reasoning you must recognize two innate condition that drive any goal setting activity. The first is desire. You desire your goal. Seems obvious, but it is when thing