My garden has reached the point where complete strangers actually stop and take pictures of it. I’m not saying that out of excessive pride, I’m revealing that so you understand the jungle-like quality of a full sun garden in one of the best growing seasons in years. My zucchinis and tomatoes are almost threatening to […]
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Yesterday I spent a gray day on a quiet beach in Rhode Island. I was there with a friend who moves at precisely my speed and the two of us enjoyed a very lazy, slow moving methodical day. We first walked along the beach in our street clothes and bare feet and made our way
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Four years ago today I married the love of my life. Every morning I get to wake up beside him and experience that same level of awe that someone so bright and vibrant could fall in love with me. When I use the word “bright,” I am not speaking about his intelligence. Even though he
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As a yoga teacher one of the lessons I teach over and over and over is how useless and detrimental pain is during exercise. According to Wikipedia the phrase “No pain, no gain” is a Jane Fonda phrase that came about in her exercise videos. I do believe Jane Fonda was doing something right as
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In the last few weeks I’ve received quite a bit of positive feedback about my latest blog posts. The fall is a hard season and barreling into this fall has brought up a lot of challenges for several of my students and patients. The message of self-appreciation and self-care seems to be important this time
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Last week I wrote a post about Dread. It wasn’t too uplifting, but it was real. You know by now that I’m determined to be honest about this process of living. My history with seasonal affective disorder always renders October a trying month, yet each year I am baffled by the crumbling of the spirit,
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Yoga classes are a must in the month of December. My gentle classes get bigger this time of year and the anxiety level of the people walking through the door is usually heightened. However, one yoga class a week usually isn’t enough to help you deal with the influx of family, travel arrangement, holiday shopping,
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction. –St. Theresa of Avila. Trans. by Daniel Ladinsky Maybe it is the teacher in me always at the front of the classroom, but on occasion I love to be the bumbling idiot in the room. Last night I went to a Knife Skills
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