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What do cat lovers, Cajun cooks & vampire hunters all have in common?  They all have herbal remedies close at hand and probably don’t even realize it!  Did you know that just a few drops of catnip tea will calm and sooth a colicky baby?  And cayenne pepper is an impressive analgesic and can even [...]

There is a sign in front of a gym down the road from the studio that reads something like “New years resolutions: they go in one year and out the other”. I love this! I read it at the perfect time too – When I am teaching on new years manifestation opposed to new years [...]

Last week, I got really sick.  Not that little, “I’ve got a cough bug;”  I had an infection in my gums.  It made my face swollen, gums enlarge, made my face hurt from my mandible to my eye ball, it gave me a fever with chills and hot flashes.  A strange and unusual trip for [...]

      As the eggnog slowly drains from our systems, we are able to see past the haze and into the new year.  While big change happens over a period of time, a flip of the calendar is a great chance for us to check in and reevaluate the path we walk.  It’s a [...]

Happy Holy Days! Tis the season for highs and lows. During the holidays we put forth a ton of stress and effort for a small time of effortlessness. I am usually a cool cucumber around the holidays but I noticed even myself stressed out this year. There is so much to do crammed in a [...]

In the beginning of our yoga practice we set a Bhava. This is our intention for right attitude in our practice. We set the mood, or tone for our practice with a positive outlook and intention to surrender to the ecstatic experience and transformation of yoga instead of just going through the motions on the [...]

Jacksonville, It’s that time of year.  Black Friday kicks off the shopping craze that tints the holiday season with the echoes of “buy, buy, buy.” This holiday season, maybe more than any we’ve experienced, could be a crucial one.  We have to make a choice, as a community.  Do we let our money fly away [...]

The past few weeks of my Kula Yoga classes have been dedicated to “Drishti” or gaze. In the Vinyasa Yoga method there are three major elements to the practice. These are Pranayama (breath), Bandha (inner energetic engagements), and Drishti our gaze. In the asana practice our point of focus is extremely important. When the eyes [...]

I’ve been doing bodywork for nearly a decade.  I went to the best school I could find in Jacksonville (At the time, I thought it to be the Southeastern Center for Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy).  It was the first time that I ever took out a loan for my education, and I wanted to prove [...]

Well, nine months came and went and now Ananda Kula has a brand new addition – a baby boy! Tehila gave birth on Thursday afternoon. It was the first birth I’ve ever witnessed. Overwhelmed, amazed, fear, joy, excitement, and a punchbowl full of other adjectives swirled around in my heart, my head, my soul…..A wave [...]