vitoyoga Spring 2024 Newsletter: Impermanence and the Peru Retreat Early Bird Discount!

“Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don’t get caught and we can open our hearts ... Read More

vitoyoga December 2023 Newsletter: Perspective in Peru and the Pru

I hope you and your loved ones are relatively safe and healthy.  I am coming up on 17 years of teaching Yoga, and am so grateful for the ancient roots of this practice that strengthens our capacity to be present and open, and also for how it has allowed me to connect with you. I continue to teach... Read More

vitoyoga Spring 2023 Newsletter: Yoga retreat in Morocco? Workshops and Schedule Updates

I hope you are having a peace and light filled start to spring. With nature in bloom, and the Easter and Passover holidays, we can take inspiration for a renewed connection to life, while honoring it's intrinsic connection to death and dying. "Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; Today... Read More

vitoyoga Fall 2022 Newsletter: Thanksgiving & Peru Retreat

As some of us celebrate Thanksgiving this week, I want to share my appreciation for your continued support and openness. I am thankful for the opportunity to continue teaching, leading retreats, and connecting with you. I am especially grateful to be launching my next retreat with International Y... Read More

Yoga, Focus, and Science

I am happy to share this article I wrote for the Wellness Program Newsletter of Tufts Medical School where I have been teaching for the last ten years: According to verse 1.2 Patanjali’s ‘Yoga Sutras,’ an early text (1st-2nd century CE) that delves into the science of Yoga and the eight-limbed pa... Read More

vitoyoga Fall 2022 Retreats: Yoga, Food, Love, and Wine in Italy (...and you?)

I hope you are doing well this summer. I am getting increasingly excited as I plan my two retreats in Italy this fall. If you were considering joining us, it may not be too late as we have two rooms left in Umbria and a few rooms left in Sicily. Please see the links below. I am so grateful to tho... Read More

Spring 2022: Persistent Joy and Renewal

There is great contrast between the sense of unrelenting loss we continue to experience, and nature’s clockwork rebirth of another spring season. After experiencing tremendous loss over the last few years with COVID combined with the personal loss of loved ones, it feels very dissonant to witness... Read More

Impermanence, Gratitude…and Equanimity?

Impermanence. That is the deal; constant change is the nature of our existence. As I returned to the Bhagavad Gita over my COVID Christmas, I got stuck as Krishna invites us to maintain our peace as we experience life and death on earth. That is predicated on our undying essence transcending thes... Read More

vitoyoga December 2021: Gratitude and New Sicily Retreat

Buone Feste! Especially as it gets colder, I invite you to consider making time to incorporate a gratitude practice into your days, if you do not already. I understand how easy it can be to dismiss this valuable practice, and how it may not feel applicable when aspects of life seem less than up t... Read More

Fall 2021 "Rejuvenation": New Website + Retreats

Happy Fall! Having returned from a life-giving and rejuvenating retreat to Umbria, I am most grateful and feel a renewed sense of joy to serve. I want to continue serving through offering teaching, customized private sessions, lovingkindness practices, and retreats that deepen our connection to n... Read More