by Carmen Champion | Oct 25, 2017 | Carmen Champion, Teacher Article, Yogic Journey
I have found such joy in the simple things; A plain, clean room, a nut-brown loaf of bread, A cup of milk, a kettle as it sings, The shelter of a roof above my head, And in a leaf-laced square along the floor, Where yellow sunlight glimmers through the door. I have...
by Carmen Champion | Oct 11, 2017 | Carmen Champion, Teacher Article, Yogic Journey
Im not in the ‘get skinny’ business. Nor did I start practicing yoga to lose weight, if I had, I’d be a size 2. I began my practice at first, because I felt as though I had gotten lost. My moral compass and energy felt chaotic and I was beginning to spiral out of...
by Carmen Champion | Apr 17, 2017 | Carmen Champion, Teacher Talk, Yamas, Yogic Journey
It’s a Sunday evening and my mother and I had been working all day at my new house pulling out barberry bushes to make a lovely flowerbed. We had already gone to the big box store once that day and needed to go back bc we realized we had daylight left to get...