by Sharon Roemmel | blog, stress
I didn’t take a single day off for rest and renewal during my first year of full-time self-employment. Even though I loved my new profession, my clients, and being my own boss I ended up depleted. At the end of that year I treated myself to a week at a yoga workshop...
by Sharon Roemmel | blog, yoga
Breath awareness is one of my favorite de-stressing tools. Three cool things about breath. Ever present. It’s true that if you stop breathing all your stress will go away. But as long as you’re still breathing, you’ll have this tool at the ready to help you de-stress....
by Sharon Roemmel | blog, yoga
At the beginning of a yoga class I ask students if there’s anything they want to focus on—a pose, a part of their body, an emotion… I had a student; I’ll call her Beth, who always asked for corpse pose. And she wanted to do it for the entire class. Yoga’s corpse pose...