Claire's Blog

Visit my blog for musings and inspiration where I share thoughts of inspiration on day-to-day living and yoga practices beyond the mat.

September 22, 2025

September, The Time of Harvest

Recently, I visited my Aunt Catherine’s home place. Her home and farm were across the road from w...

June 27, 2024

Now is all we have.We can plan, make decisions, rush ahead in our mindSo fast it all is a blur.OrBe hereStill, for a m...

December 27, 2023

In between . . .Christmas and New Year'sitems on your to do listday and nightposes on the mat.In between, a pause is a...

September 21, 2019

What are you practicing in your body?How are you holding your body?Are you clinging or letting go?What are you practicing in...

January 2, 2018

Journal Entry, 1/1/2018I avoided this all day. "This" is taking time to pause, mediate and journal. I avoided it… doing everythi...

November 5, 2017

Watching the praying mantis walk across the window; she onthe outside, I’m on the inside; I had a perspective unique to more typi...

July 10, 2017

Should I? It should be this way. I shouldn’t do that.The psychologist, AlbertEllis, suggested to his clients, “Don’t should on ...

May 31, 2017

When our son was growing up,we had “YES! Day.” Not every day. And sometimes it was not for a wholeday. We maybe had a “YES! Half...

April 5, 2017

Observingnature allows for so many lessons. Springshows us how life again unfolds and is new. The plants and trees that appeare...

March 1, 2017

Why does she keepgoing back to the same place every year? I’ve heard that asked. I’ve askedthat question myself… more than once...