Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues, I thought long and hard about sending out a New Year’s letter back in January, but as Beckett once wrote, throughout this winter “The sun...

Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues, Had enough time in the Great Indoors?! Summer is finally here, and I invite you to join me for outdoor yoga, surrounded by trees, sunlight, and abundant fresh...

Strange times . . . new rules, new behaviors, new priorities. Not to mention lots of contradictions: “Stay apart!” we’re told. But, “This is a time when we all need to come together!”...

PRIVATE LESSONS AND CO-FIT 2020 Yoga isn’t always the answer—or not the one-stop shop I once hoped it would be. A perpetual student myself, I’ve adopted what works best from...

Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues, Lots of people complain that the current stay-at-home policy is leaving them anxious, lethargic, and unfit. A friend joked that instead of gaining the “Freshman...

STAYCATION RENTALS Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues, The term “stay-cation” has taken on new meaning in the last few months, with options for moving around the globe, the country, and...

Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues, Until social distancing became the law, I lived most of my life off-screen. My best hours were spent with you. I watched your bodies move...

LIVE CLASSES Join me for classes via Zoom Tuesday 3:30-4:45 Meeting ID: 302 775 936, Password: 469519 Thursday 3:30-4:45 Meeting ID: 496 932 678, Password: 402032 Sunday 3:30-4:45 Meeting ID:...

LIVE CLASSES Join me for classes via Zoom Tuesday 3:30-4:45 Meeting ID: 302 775 936, Password: 469519 Thursday 3:30-4:45 Meeting ID: 496 932 678, Password: 402032 Sunday 3:30-4:45 Meeting ID:...

LIVE CLASSES Join me for classes via Zoom Tuesday 3:30-4:45 Meeting ID: 302 775 936, Password: 469519 Thursday 3:30-4:45 Meeting ID: 496 932 678, Password: 402032 Sunday 3:30-4:45 Meeting ID:...

Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues, When I wrote a week ago (seems like ages), I posed in passing the question: HOW LONG . . .? That is, of course, how...

CARIBBEAN BLISS YOGA RETREAT WITH LOIS NESBITT 6-10 FEBRUARY (Wednesday to Sunday) Delight in reconnecting to your love of yoga while immersing yourself in the laidback rhythm of island life...

Dear Friends, Nippy winds, dropping temps, and shorter days prompt us all to plan our winter getaways. Voila! I’ve got you covered with not one, but two tropical yoga retreats designed...

YOGA NEWS: WHAT REALLY  GOES ON IN YOGA CLASS? MAY 2018 Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues, Most of you have sampled enough yoga classes to know that something different goes on during our...

UPSIDE-DOWN AND INSIDE OUT:  THE YEAR THAT WAS If you never turn a snow globe upside-down, you never get to see the magic. Sure, the miniature winter landscape is cute,...

Dear Students, Welcome to the home stretch of my Rejection Challenge. I had initially proposed 100 days of rejections, but somehow it topped off at 90. I consider this fortuitous,...

Dear Friends, As days stream by, I’m juggling sincere attempts at applying the Rejection Challenge to my professional life with my much stronger impulse to engage in ridiculous exchanges with...

Dear Friends,   As I take a step back to ponder how all of this rejection therapy is impacting me, I hit a rather dark thought: it seems that I am...

DOUBLE FUN: HOW SMART YOGA WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Okay, admit it: your smart phone does stuff you don’t understand, lots of stuff, and you’re really glad it does. And...

DAY SIXTY-ONE (WEDNESDAY MAY 18): ASK STUDENT TO PAY FOR OVERDUE LESSONS This is always tricky. Somehow we all are missing a few synapses when it comes to where and...

DAY FIFTY-THREE (MAY 9) PART ONE: PLOT FUTURE REJECTIONS: Re-collect and regather my focus by spinning out some future adventures. Try to push the envelope in new directions. PART TWO:...

Dear Friends, As I inch toward the 50-yard line of my Rejection Challenge, I’m starting to ask what I’m actually learning. This was supposed to shed some light on my...

Dear Friends, Onward if not upward . . . Rejections are infiltrating my real life; the game is feeling less like a game. I suppose this is inevitable, as some...

Dear Friends, I’m fascinated by how fascinated many of you have become with my adventures–not to mention all the moral support you’ve offered in case I should be flagging under...

Dear Friends & Supporters, Eighteen months ago it struck me that my story of enduring and recovering from a total hip replacement needed to be told. Enthusiastic friends, colleagues, and family...

Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues, As we round the bend into another year, here are a few offerings on the horizon: WHAT’S UP FOR 2017 THE BOOK: HIP OP: BEYOND...

Dear Friends, Seems like everyone’s a yoga teacher these days–or thinking about becoming one.It’s become hip, stylish, even glamorous. Yet making a “living” teaching yoga has never been easy. There...

WINTER VACATION IN THE CARIBBEAN A week of yoga, playtime, and joy with Lois Nesbitt and Erica Velasquez Loblolly Hill Villa, Antigua Saturday, January 7 – Saturday, January 14 2017...

KIDS, KIDS, KIDS! Fish Wish, commissioned by The Nature Conservancy for its annual waterside family picnic. 2014. Parents up and down the East End tell me the challenges of keeping...

Where the Wild Things – original collage done for the fundraising auction for the Group for the East End Dear friends, Most of you know me as the ever-active yoga teacher/anatomy...

Tianyue International Yoga Celebration, Beijing Showing students how rooting the lower body allows the upper body to extend, taking weight off hips and lengthening the spine. And that’s my amazing...

8 months, post-op, who knew?! Dear Friends, In case you missed my first announcement (sent out last week), I am officially launching my crowd-funding campaign for my book Hip Op: Beyond...

8 months, post-op, who knew?! Dear Friends, On December 1, I am launching a crowd-funding campaign to gather the resources (time and $$) to write and publish Hip Op: Beyond Recovery. As a...

YOGA NEWS: SUMMER YOGA IN THE HAMPTONS! JUNE 2015    Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues, Summer is here! And nowhere more beautifully so than in the Hamptons, the world’s most luxurious...

STANDOUT  YOGA TEACHER ONE-ON-ONE MENTORING With Lois Nesbitt WHO NEEDS A MENTOR?  In almost every profession, graduates of training programs follow up their basic instruction by  apprenticing under a master...

  ‘Thank You, 2014!’ Dear Friends, Life is a gift, and every experience is a gift, however baffling its outer wrappings. My roller-coaster ride through 2014 offered enough gifts to...

INJURY CLINIC WORKSHOP IN MEXICO With Ann Moxey and Lois Nesbitt January 23-26 and September 25-28, 2015 Bodies break down-yet yoga tells us they don’t have to! The right kind...

Copuntdown to Hamptons Yoga Teacher Training and Yoga Immersion! Starting 10/18! This is your chance to study with some of the most experienced yoga teachers in New York. Learn from...

September 17, 2014 Dear Friends, Lois here! And apologies for long post-op silence (can’t believe it’s been almost a week). I left the hospital on Saturday, still a little woozy...

Dear Friends,   I am on the train from East Hampton back to New York City, end of summer 2014 for a this camper. I usually get sad at this...

Dear Friends, Please excuse the group email, but I have some news to share and want those I treasure to be in the loop. In early September, I am having...

Paradise Yoga Retreat with Lois Nesbitt February 1-8, 2014 Pura Vida Spa, Costa Rica   IT’S NOT TOO LATE! SAVE $150!  Seize this last-minute golden opportunity to spend a delightful week in sunny,...