by JaharaSara | Mar 27, 2021 | Musings
Dear Community, One of my favorite mindfulness teachers, Tara Brach, recently shared a talk titled Every Part of Us Belongs. Something Tara often refers back to in her teachings is a quote by an attachment psychologist named Louis Cozolino. He says: We are not the...
by JaharaSara | Feb 25, 2021 | Insights + Inspiration
There are more times in my life than I can count when I experienced physical pain relief after having a good cry. The area in my body of subtle, intermittent, chronic pain is in the left side of my neck. I can trace the origin of when that pain started to just weeks...
by JaharaSara | Jan 31, 2021 | Myofascial Release
Most clients come to work with me because they want relief from chronic pain. Often times, they assume that the focal point needs to solely be on the area where symptoms are present. This is quite normal and natural, to desire direct contact with an area of...
by JaharaSara | Dec 25, 2020 | Insights + Inspiration
Close to a decade ago, when I was teaching yoga full-time… I wrote a list of ten ways I could cultivate an internal environment of serenity and gratitude. I titled that list the Ten Hues of Practice and used it as my class theme for the week. Just a month or so ago my...
by JaharaSara | Nov 29, 2020 | Myofascial Release
Dear Community, I can remember the days of being a dance teacher, performer, and choreographer. Long, grueling hours of rehearsals and performances. The years of repetitive movement definitely took a toll on my legs and for many of those years I wasn’t taking the best...