Betsy’s Blog

The right time to go back to school is - it depends. I advocate working collectively in our districts, communities, and individual schools to weigh all the factors. For our family, we chose to send the kids back to school and outside child care recently for the mental health gain. It’s been our best choice.

Our ten-year old went back to the school building in December. She is in a supervised classroom at her school engaging in virtual learning. Her teachers and most of her classmates are at home. She sits in a socially distanced room with health and safety protocols in place. She chats with her friends in the classroom over lunch and they play outdoors on the playground and in the school garden. There are days she wishes she was at home (not unlike pre-pandemic days), but overall our engaged, fun, happy, smart kid has re-emerged.

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I’ve been asked a lot lately why I settled on offering my classes as a monthly subscription-based business model so I figured why not blog about it.

It’s all about sustainability. Sustainability for the yoga student and the yoga teacher.

Let’s first examine that sustainability from the student perspective. As a yoga student in my Be You Hub you have a steady, reliable focus of weekly practices. There is variety in class style and length and yet each class helps the other in a given month. It’s a wonderful way to safely empower and support your yoga practice.

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It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life. For me. And I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good.

I haven’t stopped singing since listening to John Legend’s soul stirring rendition of Feeling Good during the Inaugural Celebration last night.

On January 1st I taught a yoga class focused on the word Faith. I was willing my faith in myself, my faith in love, my faith in a higher power, my faith in our nation to shine through. I’ve recited Helen Keller’s words daily this month… “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

But I was barely making it in the darkness. I was crawling on hands and knees. The insurrection at our U.S. Capitol – just twelve blocks from our home – brought focus to my darkness. I sat in my anger, my fear, and my sadness for a good week. So many will say ok this happened today and now we must tackle the issue the next day. This time sitting in it proved necessary.

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