Posts by Diane Sieg
Your Resilient Summer
Eighteen Summers: It’s All We Get, discusses how many summers we get with our kids before they grow up got me thinking, how many summers we all have left, especially as we know them now. Whether it’s our kids leaving, health declining, or interests wavering, summers, like everything else in life all change and end.…
Keep Reading...Lessons from Bali
[su_spacer] Bali is a magical place filled with ritual, beauty, and challenge. The rice fields are green lush works of art, the temples are intricately designed and beautifully decorated and the beaches are largely undeveloped and uninhabited. In contrast, as a third-world country, the water is not drinkable, the sanitation standards are relaxed and most…
Keep Reading...7 Acts of Loving-Kindness
Compassion is practicing loving-kindness toward ourselves and others. It is contagious because when we treat ourselves and others kindly, we can be unexpectedly showered with loving-kindness as well. Here are some simple acts of loving-kindness I was fortunate enough to receive during a busy speaking schedule: My client arranged for a late check-out of my…
Keep Reading...5 Ways to Sleep Your Way to Resilience
The last month has been a great reminder of just how precious our good health is, after losing our sister-in-law when she collapsed at a graduation party, a yoga student canceling her Bali trip with us for congestive heart failure, and a dear friend starting chemotherapy for a blood dyscrasia. We really don’t have anything…
Keep Reading...Fall in Love Again
As human beings, we can all become bored and burned out with our workouts, partners, or job positions. To be resilient, to maintain a positive attitude and healthy wellbeing, we need to remember the big WHY of what we do. In other words, we need to fall in love again. Remembering the big WHY gives…
Keep Reading...What’s the Word for Your New Year?
By now, we have all been bombarded with advice about how to be successful with our resolutions and join the meager 8% who actually achieve them. Too often, the rest of us make our resolutions too complicated, unrealistic, and overwhelming, based on things we think we should do, instead of things we want to do.…
Keep Reading...Your Giving Starts with Receiving
At my Yoga Mindfulness Retreat last month at Mount Princeton Resort, many of the participants worked in healthcare, and all were caregivers in one way or another. There was a consistent theme for everyone’s intention for the weekend and that was self-care by making time and space for themselves. In other words, receiving instead of…
Keep Reading...5 Ways to Engage in Work and Life
A recent Gallup poll revealed a staggering 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged at work today. This is not surprising when you observe how often we are distracted and overwhelmed with information. Many of us have lost our presence, purpose and engagement in our work and our lives. Spending 3 fabulous days with my…
Keep Reading...5 Reasons to Commit
This month, Endorphin, one of the yoga studios I teach at, is offering a yoga challenge that invites students to take 30 yoga classes in 30 days. It’s good for the studio to get students on their mats and experience different classes and instructors. It’s also good for the students because it requires a commitment…
Keep Reading...Where is Your Next Adventure?
September is the new January. While children get back to school, it is the perfect time to get back to you, in other words, to decide what your next adventure is. Every new season offers us an excellent opportunity to stop and reflect on our priorities by asking these questions: What is most important to…
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