Adventures in Yoga – Time.
I left home this morning in what I thought was more than ample time to catch the train to Manhattan for a Sunday morning hot yoga class. Oops- holiday schedule. I was wrong. But as any city dweller...
View ArticleVegan Diaries – 21 meals 35 bucks
Post by Oneika’s Yoga Life. So, Eat Well on the Cheap was a great post what wasn’t well thought out. I decided to go back to the drawing board. 7 days. 21 meals. 5 bucks a day. Grand plans of menu...
View ArticleAdventures in Yoga- When Writing and Yoga Collide
However, a few weeks ago I spent an afternoon with Kathleen Kraft- poet and yogi. Kathleen hosted a workshop where we were able to spend time connecting body, breath and words. I can’t tell you how...
View ArticleChalkboard Yoga, Fresh Starts and All That.
You don’t have to wait for the New Year for a fresh start. Amanda McDonald, yoga teacher wrote a status update that made high five my Mac. Why are we so resistant to just solving problems, instead of...
View ArticleVegan Diaries- Building a Pantry
A delicious, nutritious meal is easy to prepare on the day you come home from the grocery store. But as the food dwindles, the urge to order take-out or grab unhealthy frozen pizza grows. Unplanned...
View ArticleDing Dong Goes the Inversion Practice
I zipped downstairs to an early hot power vinyasa practice with friend Jessica Ashen. She’s a yogi and founder of Spiritual Pretzels Yoga. Jessica brings donation based yoga all over Jersey City. It’s...
View ArticleRenewing Your Spirit – 5 Ways to Do It
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” - George Eliot There’s something about autumn that I love and...
View ArticleKayak Yoga – Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight
Maybe it’s the yoga, maybe it’s because I’m getting older, maybe it’s because I have a newfound sense of freedom since I got my bike- but I’ve been up for trying new things. This was not always so. I...
View ArticleGovernment Breaks Bad – Walter White Yoga
Today as the government decided to shut down I found myself thinking about the series finale of Breaking Bad. It’s so hard to say goodbye. But I’m a big girl and big girls don’t cry. So when the...
View ArticleSunday Jitters Yoga
“I am an old man and I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened” - Mark Twain I shared an article from the Elephant Journal on facebook. Seems that many of us think about...
View ArticleOpen Letter to a Yoga Teacher
Dear Katherine- When I realized that you were teaching class today I got nervous first and choked up, second. Your standing bow pose looks at me every time I walk into the locker room. But taking...
View ArticleAdventures in this Yoga Life- Petitions, Eggs and Ahisma
Email petitions are the new chain letter. Chain letters at the very least were easily ignored and at best were good for some ridicule. Seriously send ten or you get bad luck? But petitions are...
View ArticleAdventures in Yoga – Out of the Darkness
I went to winter solstice celebration. Honoring the longest night of the year would not have been top of my list unless honoring means going to bed earlier then, I stand corrected. Winter is my least...
View ArticleSunday Yoga
Someone shared this story this morning and it made me think of Ahisma and Satya. A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman...
View ArticleNew Year Yoga
So many studios now offer a peaceful way to bring in the New Year. With a practice and an ‘aum’ we can start the new year fresh. Happy New Year friends. Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu “May all beings...
View ArticleHealth Yoga- 3 Ways to Optimize Your 40′s
(Guest Post from FoundHealth.com) 3 Ways to Stay Healthy in Your 40s “I want to feel my life while I’m in it.” - Meryl Streep By the time that I turned 40 I was comfortable in my own skin. It wasn’t a...
View ArticleStand Here, in This Place – Adventures in Yoga
I wasn’t able to get out of my own way this week. Out of sync. And because I like nothing more than making matters worse, I tried to rush each day along. Futile and insane. We’ve all done it, tried to...
View ArticleKeep Your Eyes on Your Own F*#&ing Mat – Response to Jen Caron
(There isn’t a big juicy rant ahead, so be warned. I decided to think before I wrote. Please know that the calm state of mind in which I wrote this post does not reflect the normally snarky way I...
View ArticleFibroids Aren’t My Friends – Gynecological Yoga
The Red Sea. Ten days ago I got my period. Not such a big deal (and you may wonder the reason for the ‘overshare’) except, that I’d just had it a few weeks prior. Along with excessive bleeding...
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