During my weekly Friday morning yoga class with one of my favorite teachers, I accidentally dozed off in the middle of class. You see, I decided to skip the back bending series and lie on my back with my knees together and somehow, I fell asleep, only to be nudged by the teacher to join […]
Lately I noticed I have been so busy focusing on the outcome of finding a job in NYC that I have not enjoyed the process. Granted, the process of job hunting in a new city is daunting to say the least. But there’s been awesome things happening around me that I barely regard. It’s as […]
Sometimes when I catch my dog staring at me with those wide innocent eyes, I almost feel bad for the guy. He has absolutely no control of when he is going to eat, when he will receive his walk, and when he will be lucky enough to get a trip to the mountains. His life […]
The word intuition has been coming up a lot for me lately. It started when my beautiful friend and aspiring life coach Sabrina wrote the following to me in an email – Your intuition is going to guide you more than your head at the end of the day anyway, so continue doing that beautiful […]
Hey guys! I was mentioned in the Washingtonian for the 8 DC yoga bloggers you should know– WOO! What an honor =) take a moment to enjoy your surroundings The past three days I’ve been waking up with a tension headache that refuses to pass. It’s not quite a migraine, but it makes its presence […]
I have a really hard time loving myself. When people tell me to have compassion for myself, I always think it sounds too idealistic. I mean, when I am lonely or sad, the last thing I can do is generate love for myself. When I am hurt or angry or judgmental or any other negative […]
This past Sunday I went to a three hour Fall vinyasa flow yoga class. Three hours of pranayama, meditation, intense flow and yin yoga. It was beyond luxurious and everyone left the room in such a happy daze. When I saw my teacher later that afternoon I told her how wonderful the class was and […]
Too Much Of A Good Thing T-ism: too much of a good thing is NOT a good thing. We must learn to say no. To take on only what we can bear. If we do not channel our energies to the now, to one task at hand, we end up not doing anything fully. People […]
Over the weekend Krishna Das said something so true and so funny that it made it even truer. He said “the reason we are enjoying this time together, this group chant, is because as a collective whole we are more HERE now than we were… then”. Chanting has a magical quality of bringing you into […]
signing some forms to go sky diving The other day, my beautiful friend Liz, blogged about what she would do if the world ended tomorrow. Funny enough, that exact same day I was having the exact same thought. What WOULD I do if I had no tomorrow? I know I am not the only one […]
