I so enjoyed this conversation with my business partner, neighbor and friend, Carter Siegel. We explored how yoga can help us be more present and less reactive parents and how parenting changes when our children are grown and living their independent lives. We also talked about the "brutiful" experience of caring for our aging and dying parents and how yoga can give us the awareness, courage and strength to be present for them at the end. Transcript Of Conversation: Alice: We

My daughters don’t like yoga! It took me a while to accept but it’s a fact. This photo was taken on one of the few times I managed to get them to a yoga class when they were young. I love it because they are so cute—the older one concentrating hard and the younger one looking to her for reassurance that she is doing ok. It also makes me smile because it reminds me how un-relaxed I was about it all. Yoga has been a sanity saver for me as a mom and I REALLY wanted to give my da

This short, calming breathing meditation is designed especially for moms who are feeling overwhelmed or stressed.

Developing awareness of our inner experience is a simple yet profound practice. Before I started writing this, I took a moment to close my eyes and to check in with myself. I noticed some swirling thoughts about what I was going to write, interlaced with some residual chatter about a conversation I’d recently had. As I paid attention, the thoughts began to settle slightly and I noticed some feelings of guilt around a commitment that I had forgotten that day and a slight feel

Motherhood is full of conflicting emotions—joy, fierce love, deep connection, and gratitude co-existing with guilt, fear, loneliness and resentment. These light and shadow emotions are natural given the wonders, responsibilities and challenges of motherhood, however it can feel as though we aren’t allowed to acknowledge our shadow emotions. Social pressure can make us feel that if we admit to anger, boredom, frustration or being unfulfilled then we must be bad mothers. It is

Our self-talk has a big impact on our experience of life, our well-being and therefore our children's. The good news is yoga can help us establish healthier self-talk! Many of us suffer from negative self-talk, where our inner dialogue centers around negative messages and beliefs about ourselves. While reflecting on past experience and behavior can be a necessary pre-requisite for making positive changes, negative self-talk is harmful in a number of ways. It reinforces negati

Conversations With Moms - Sandwich Generation & Empty Nesting with Allison Parks Dugas Welcome to the next installment in our Conversations with Moms series. Today, I’m delighted to be joined by my dear friend and colleague, Allison Parks Dugas. In this conversation, we’ll be exploring what it’s like to live in the “sandwich generation”—caring for children while also supporting aging parents. We’ll also step into the territory of empty nesting, as Allison is newly navigating

Conversations with Moms: An Interview with Andrea Barton Welcome to our Conversations with Moms series. Today, I’m so happy to be chatting with Andrea Barton— a fellow yoga therapist, dear friend, and someone whose thoughtful, grounded presence I’ve admired since we completed our training together. In this conversation, we’ll be exploring how yoga and yoga therapy can support mothers during the profoundly transformative postpartum period. Andrea lives in Austin, Texas with h

This short loving-kindness meditation supports moms in cultivating self-compassion and self-love through gentle breathing, visualization, and simple affirmations, helping to nourish the heart and restore emotional balance.

This grounding body-awareness meditation helps you reconnect with your physical body when your mind feels busy or overwhelmed. Through a gentle body scan and mindful attention, the practice supports presence, calm, and a sense of balance by bringing awareness out of the mind and into the body.