Author Archives: stephaniedeyoung

A couple of years ago while out and about with my friend Sha, we popped into Lowe’s in search of bamboo and next thing I knew I was walking out with 5 new potted plants. Only 3 of those plants survived my care, but the ones that did are thriving! I’ve slowly been adding toContinue reading “Wellness Wednesday: Houseplants!”

A couple of years ago when I was at a seeming impasse with my career, I set aside a long weekend and some early mornings to go through Danielle LaPorte’s best seller the Core Desire Map. Working my way through the exercises in the book really helped shift my focus from what I want toContinue reading “Intention Tuesday: Desire More Than Ever”

Peppermint essential oil is the perfect antidote to an early morning alarm clock. The scent alone is so energizing you can just unscrew the top and take a big long inhale and to get your day started. It’s also great diffused, and if you have a high quality grade that is ingestible it’s lovely inContinue reading “Essential Monday: Peppermint”

Happy International Yoga day, I have the perfect yoga gift for you! A few years ago I set out to do 21 days of yoga. My rationale was that if it took 21 days to form a habit, and yoga was a habit I wanted to form, that I should do it every day forContinue reading “Recommendation Thursday: Streaming Yoga”

Self care looks like different things on different days, but one of the very basic forms of self care that you can do every day is staying hydrated. So basic. Look good, feel good, do good: water is good for your skin, it flushes out toxins, it increases energy, it aids in digestion, it’s greatContinue reading “Wellness Wednesday: H2O”

Saturday morning Yoga at the Manor is one of my favorite parts of the week. I live for it. I have a whole morning routine around getting ready for it, picking my essential oil for savasana, planning the starting pose and peak pose, setting up the yoga mats and getting myself grounded before anyone arrives.Continue reading “Intention Tuesday: Showing Up”

Mmmm, eucalyptus! Words that come to mind to describe the scent and its effects: cooling, refreshing and energizing. As a stimulant it is great first thing in the morning to get you going, both physically and mentally. As a disinfectant, I like to clean my yoga mat with it. And paired with Lavender it makesContinue reading “Essential Monday: Eucalyptus”

I have a lot of favorite poses, if you take my class you know which ones they are because they make repeat appearances throughout a sequence. Pyramid pose and supported warrior 3 come up a lot. But at the top of the list of favorites is tree pose, Vrksasana in Sanskrit. Because in the poseContinue reading “Weekend Posing: Tree Pose”

Whenever I get asked for my recommendation for a yoga mat, I bubble over with excitement thinking of all the possibilities! It’s hard to know where to start because I have so many yoga mat loves. I thought I’d start on here with the one I use the most, my traveling yoga mat! My go-toContinue reading “Recommendation Thursday: Travel Yoga Mat”