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Journey to You Yoga begins 1/6: Don’t change yourself, become MORE of yourself

Happy 2025! How do you want to feel this year? Instead of creating lofty goals to change yourself, why not create intentions to become more of yourself? The Journey to You yoga series is designed to take you on a journey back to yourself, to peel back the layers, doubts and fears that hold you back, and reconnect with the truest, most beautiful version of you. Journey to You at Grounded by Yoga Canandaigua studio, Billiards Plaza, S. Main St. Mondays, 4:45-6:00pm This series is gentle and suitable for everyone, as I provide various modifications. I work with you to make it your class, …

The truth really will set you free

An ancient story goes… A king instructs a group of blind men to describe an elephant. Each man feels one part of the elephant’s body–the tusk, the leg, the trunk, the tail. Each gives a detailed–and very different–report about the elephant. Then they come to blows about who is right. Each man is describing his honest, real experience about the elephant, yet each misses the big picture, the whole truth. How do you view the world? How do you view yourself? Other people? It feels good to stand in our worldviews, doesn’t it? It gives us kind of a power …

Unlocking the Divine: The Power of Self-Love

During my walk I saw this and strode on by, but then something in me wanted to go back. Four simple words, I was thinking, that could invoke a ton of different responses in people. We could cave to our first reaction. We could get caught up in the language of them, the vowels and consonants of them. Why? “God,” of course. We’re obviously not God in the traditional sense of the word. But the word “God” is just that, a word. A pointer, that points to a universal power that is so beyond our comprehension that assigning a gender or vowels and consonants …