It's funny how life and writing intersect. I'm in the process of trimming the 110,000 word yoga memoir manuscript down to 80,000 words. It's hard at first... cutting down your writing. It seems like such a monster. Where to start? So you do a few words here and there. Then you leave it. Then a … Continue reading Clean up your mess
Today is day ten of our Nourish twenty-one day detox. Last week found me expounding to my weekly meditation circle about supplication of emotions through substance: in this case, food. Today, perched upon my stationary bike reading The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr, a moment of clarity arrives. Seemingly disconnected dots (memoir and detox) … Continue reading The Memory of Food
We awaken through suffering. It's true. We also awaken through beauty. But more often suffering. It's our misery and our desire to be free of it, that compels us to seek the deep pool of calm within. We discover inner resources. We develop resilience and depths of compassion and empathy for others in similar situations … Continue reading Mastery through Misery
That was it. The last straw. You know your kids have pushed your final button when you no longer get angry but instead, laughter arises. Not the hanging out with great friends kind of laughter. Not the Melissa McCarthy/Sandra Bullock nose-taping bar scene from The Heat kind of laughter. It's like an unleashing of deep-seated … Continue reading The best kind of punishment
Create your new year. One strand at a time. This new year, dream your dreams, make your plans, then commit to a 40-day (or more) practice.The 40-day practice is an enduring spiritual tradition aimed towards creating powerful change. Yoga and meditation practitioners have used this method of practice to bring about transformation, focus and … Continue reading Scrap New Year’s Resolutions: Opt for a 40-Day Practice Instead.
December is a magical month. An ideal one to detoxify the body and eliminate residue accumulated over the past year. Ayurveda refers to this residue as ama: a buildup of waste in the body; products not used up or transformed from their old state to a new one via digestion or metabolism. Accumulation of ama blocks the … Continue reading The 12 Days of Detox: Body, Mind & Spirit
From soaking to sipping, water is integral to health. Here are 9 ways to make drinking water a daily healing ritual. Add a spring or two of thyme to impart this herb's antioxidants and immune and mood boosting properties. Add fresh squeezed lemon to return life to your water and vitamin C to your body. Add fresh … Continue reading Healing Waters
Cucumber, kale, mint, dulse, spirulina, cilantro and lemon balm infusion. I drank my usual summer green smoothie this morning. By the time I got upstairs to dress, I couldn't stop clearing my throat and coughing. My nose started to run. No, I didn't come down with a sudden cold & flu bug. It may be … Continue reading Fall flavours
Puberty hits around age 12 through 18 or so. Starts earlier or later for some, completes earlier or later for others, but all in all our teen years are wrought with transition and change: physical, emotion and mental. There is, as my dear friend Tammy would say, a second puberty: midlife. Some go through crisis … Continue reading Midlife crisis
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