Yoga With Kris

12/22/2025

12/22/2025

How do you welcome the winter solstice and Advent? Here we do it with comfort, candlelight, readings and pondering our greatest Gift. Sending light and love, peace and joy to you. 🕯️
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12/21/2025

Happy Solstice, friends. 🕯️

On this winter solstice, this blessing is for you, again and always, or for someone you love. Because for so many folks, it has been a year of very long nights. So I am leaving this on your doorstep, tucked beneath a thermos of hot cocoa and a tin of your favorite cookies. And to friends in the Southern Hemisphere, blessings of the summer solstice to you! Near and far, I am wildly grateful for you.

BLESSING FOR THE LONGEST NIGHT

All throughout these months,
as the shadows
have lengthened,
this blessing has been
gathering itself,
making ready,
preparing for
this night.

It has practiced
walking in the dark,
traveling with
its eyes closed,
feeling its way
by memory,
by touch,
by the pull of the moon
even as it wanes.

So believe me
when I tell you
this blessing will
reach you,
even if you
have not light enough
to read it;
it will find you,
even though you cannot
see it coming.

You will know
the moment of its
arriving
by your release
of the breath
you have held
so long;
a loosening
of the clenching
in your hands,
of the clutch
around your heart;
a thinning
of the darkness
that had drawn itself
around you.

This blessing
does not mean
to take the night away,
but it knows
its hidden roads,
knows the resting spots
along the path,
knows what it means
to travel
in the company
of a friend.

So when
this blessing comes,
take its hand.
Get up.
Set out on the road
you cannot see.

This is the night
when you can trust
that any direction
you go,
you will be walking
toward the dawn.

—Jan Richardson
from The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “Longest Night”
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

12/15/2025

Curious about Brainspotting?

A registered psychotherapist explains how this alternative therapy can help unlock pent-up feelings, memories and tension that may be stuck in your brain and body.

12/09/2025

Breathing exercises are powerful tools that help students calm their body and reset their mind. These strategies teach kids how to slow their breathing, release tension, and feel more in control during stressful moments. With regular practice, these techniques support emotional regulation and create a calmer learning environment.

11/28/2025

Today and everyday, thankfulness is medicine. Let’s make the comment section shine bright with the things people around the world are grateful for. Let me know 👇🏽 . I’m so excited to read them all. Social media can be a form of medicine as well when it fosters community and connection.👇🏽  
          
      
              

11/14/2025

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10/09/2025

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09/15/2025

What you feed your body with nutrition matters, but what are your serving your head and your heart on a daily basis?  
 
If you want to learn more about the science and practical application of this, this is something I talk about at length on my on my podcast, in articles on Drwillcole.com and with telehealth patients to improve their labs.  
     
        
 

09/04/2025

As the seasons shift and the air grows crisp, we gather in the warmth of this space—a place to soften, restore, and nourish body and spirit. Come back home to you.

08/28/2025

This past weekend I assisted at another Brainspotting training, the first in my hometown. I really enjoyed being in the room as people from across the Midwest learned the theory and practice of this healing modality. Tears and laughter as well as deep insights came from our three days together. Thanks to Selah Counseling for hosting us.

07/14/2025

Now offering consultation for Brainspotting practitioners.