Category: Yoga

  • Chant for Peace with Tina Turner

    Chant for Peace with Tina Turner

    Join me in this moving mantra and video with Tina Turner and friends. May peace prevail. For the children. Meaning of the words: Sarva=everything; Sarvesham= all/ everything; Svastir = health/well-being; Bhavatu = let be, may there be; Shanti=peace. Namaste

  • 🍁October Yoga with Val Boyko🍁

    🍁October Yoga with Val Boyko🍁

    “Come practice with meCome share in communityFind Your Middle Ground” Thank you for being part of our Middle Ground Community as we move into cooler days of mists and mellow fruitfulness! This is my favorite time of year here in the Northern Hemisphere for enjoying a few warm days, the changing colors and the shifting…

  • 🍎 September Yoga with Val Boyko🍎

    🍎 September Yoga with Val Boyko🍎

    “Come practice with meCome share in communityFind Your Middle Ground” Thank you for being part of our Middle Ground Community as we slowly unwind from Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere! The Yoga schedule for September remains the same. Let us embrace yoga together from the comfort of our own spaces 🙏🏻 If you would…

  • 🌹June and July Yoga with Val Boyko🌹

    🌹June and July Yoga with Val Boyko🌹

    “Come practice with me Come share in community Find Your Middle Ground” Thank you for being part of our Middle Ground Community as we enter longer warmer days here in the Northern Hemisphere! The Yoga schedule for June and July remains the same. Our next 🎈POP-UP Yoga🎈 Practice will be on Thursday July 6th from…

  • Is your Impatience Holding up Everything?

    Is your Impatience Holding up Everything?

    Enjoy this re-post. Take time to slow down today … and every day! When we are impatient, we think that we are making things happen more quickly. We want what we want, and don’t want to wait. And at that moment, we let our impatience hold up everything. By trying to control the world around…

  • Perspective on Violence

    Perspective on Violence

    “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a person…

  • Inspiration – Rested by David Whyte

    Inspiration – Rested by David Whyte

    “Rested, we are ready for the world but not held hostage by it, rested we care again for the right things and the right people in the right way. In rest we reestablish the goals that make us more generous, more of an invitation, someone we want to remember, and someone others would want to…

  • ❄️ February Yoga with Val ❄️

    ❄️ February Yoga with Val ❄️

    “Come practice with me Come share in community Find Your Middle Ground” Thank you for being part of our Middle Ground Community as we move towards more light and possibilities together! Our First POP-UP Yoga Practice is taking place at The Living Room music venue in Ardmore! Please let me know if you plan to…

  • ⛄️ January Community News ⛄️

    ⛄️ January Community News ⛄️

    Thank you for being part of our Middle Ground Community as we begin the new year together! This is the perfect time to recommit to your practice – whether its yoga, meditation or simply stepping away from busy life and taking time to Find Your Middle Ground. Please join me via Zoom for a Winter…

  • Haiku – holidays and yoga

    Haiku – holidays and yoga

    ~ Find Your Middle Ground Come home for the holidays To heart centered you ~ Amidst the holiday bustle, I hope you are finding time to pause and find your middle ground. I feel very lucky to have connected with so many of you here! Having a community of like minded souls, and curious, open…

  • Tidings of Comfort and Joy

    Tidings of Comfort and Joy

    As I listen to Christmas music playing all around, I smile and sing along with the tidings of comfort and joy. ‘Tis the Season! From a yoga perspective, feeling comfort and joy is not just at this time of year, or connected to a particular event, it is something that we can cultivate within ourselves.…

  • 🌲 December Yoga with Val 🌲

    🌲 December Yoga with Val 🌲

    Thank you for being part of our Middle Ground Community in 2022!  The Holidays are just beginning, and I wanted to let you know that December yoga is on sale for Monthly Members!  I will be in Scotland from December 1st – 12th. If you would like to donate for the month, then please discount your…

  • Haiku – Kripalu Retreat

    Haiku – Kripalu Retreat

    ~ Kripalu awaits. Letting go and diving deep. Being buoyed by Love ~ This weekend I will be attending a Loving Kindness retreat with some of my favorite people at Kripalu Center for Yoga in the Berkshires. Fall is a time for transformation and letting go. Feeling gratitude and excitement to have this opportunity for…

  • 🍁 Val’s October Yoga and Community Gathering 🍁

    🍁 Val’s October Yoga and Community Gathering 🍁

    “Come practice with me Come share in community Find Your Middle Ground” I hope you are transitioning with ease into Autumn! October, here in the north, brings cooler days and nights, interesting sunlight and changing colors. It’s also a time for introspection and letting go of what we no longer need in preparation for winter.…

  • 🍎 September Gentle Yoga with Val 🍎

    🍎 September Gentle Yoga with Val 🍎

    “Come practice with me Come share in community Find Your Middle Ground” I hope your summer has gone well, and you have enjoyed the warmth of the weather and connecting with family and friends! We are moving into a more mellow time of year. In Chinese Philosophy, this is the season of late summer where…

  • Haiku – just love

    Haiku – just love

    ~ Come home to your self Touch in, breathe out and let go Love is what you are ~ These words came to me yesterday during a writing circle with Ali Grimshaw over at Flashlight Batteries. What an inspiring group of authentic and wise women. Thank you for sharing your gifts and lighting my inner…