13 years · 40+ retreats · 700+ women
Destination Guides
Getting to the Puelo Valley from the US is two to three flights and one drive: your home airport to Santiago, Santiago to Puerto Montt, a 25-minute taxi to Puerto Varas, and then we pick you up and drive you the rest of the way. It’s the question I get asked more than any other […]
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Destination Guides
Patagonia mushroom season occurs during the southern autumn, roughly March to June, and peaks in April and May. This is when the temperate rainforests of southern Chile do the thing they’re quietly famous for: the rain comes, the temperature drops, and the forest floor erupts into violet, orange, coral, and red. I didn’t go to […]
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Destination Guides
April in the Puelo Valley is quiet, cool, and gold. The forests have turned, the summer crowds and biting flies are gone, and the lake goes glassy in the mornings. I wrote about why we chose that month in Patagonia in April; this post is about the week itself. I’ve been hosting women’s yoga retreats […]
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Destination Guides
Patagonia in April is cool, quiet, and gold. Days run in the mid-50s°F, the lenga forests turn red and copper, the summer crowds are gone, and the biting flies that make January miserable have disappeared entirely. In northern Patagonia — the Puelo Valley in Chile’s Lake District, where we host our retreat — April is […]
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Wellness
Summer is softening into fall, and the plants around us are offering a quiet lesson in change. The vegetable garden is shifting from abundance toward rest. Nothing is wasted. Nothing is rushed. The season simply changes. Perhaps we can learn to do the same. This is a good time of year for a fall equinox […]
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For Teachers
The best yoga philosophy books don’t read like textbooks. They read like stories, and the wisdom arrives while you’re busy following the plot. That’s my whole filter for this list. Six books, none of them about asana, all of them about living the thing rather than studying it. When I finished my first 200-hour, I […]
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Yoga Teacher Training
Dive into the ancient wisdom of yoga with these great yoga teacher training books. They're the ones you should have read during YTT, but probably didn't.
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Yoga Teacher Training
Most 200-hour yoga teacher trainings cost between $1,500 and $7,000. Where you land inside that range comes down almost entirely to format and the expertise of the teachers — whether you study online, at a studio down the road, or somewhere that includes your bed and your breakfast. That’s a huge spread, and the number […]
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Destination Guides
Everything I send my retreat guests when they ask what to do with their extra days on the island. Table of Contents Mallorca surprises women who arrive expecting a beach island. And yes, there are MANY beautiful coves to swim in and beautiful beaches too, but… What’s actually here is a mountain range — the […]
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Yoga Teacher Training
Congrats! Embarking on a yoga teacher training course will absolutely change your life, and that's why it's so important to choose the right yoga instructor course for YOU. I have personally taken a handful of yoga teacher training courses that have ranged from really freakin' awesome to ugh… what a waste of money, time, etc. […]
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For Teachers
There’s one note I give yoga teachers more than any other when it comes to yoga nidra, and it has nothing to do with their script, their sequencing, or their voice. It’s this: stop filling every second with words. Most nidra I hear taught is continuous. Beautiful language, correct structure, warm voice — and never […]
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For Teachers
Full disclosure, I trained in a Bihar-inspired lineage, so I do ask my students to remain awake. Once when I’m explaining the practice, and usually once more right before we drop in: this isn’t sleep — see if you can stay on just this side of sleep. Then I let it go. And here’s what […]
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