This past week my parents and I went on a last minute trip to San Francisco to visit my grandmother who recently suffered a heart attack. I spent the week with my cousin, his wife, grandma and the parents. The second day of the visit, I noticed I was holding some grudge towards my grandmother […]
Last week I wrote about the workshop I took on Saturday with Tara Brach, a vipassana meditation teacher, and John Schumacher, an Iyengar yoga teacher. Read the blog post here to read about my thoughts on Iyengar yoga. The Friday before the workshop was a rough rough day. I felt attacked, defended, defeated, needy, and […]
Following up on my past post, I want to explain why these 20 pounds mean so much to me. (Go read the post first in order to understand this one!) I want to emphasize that buying those jeans was much MUCH more than just accepting I gained a few pounds. For me, buying those jeans […]
Happy Saturday dear readers! I just finished teaching a donation based class and am currently sipping my morning decaf (remember I went caffeine free half a year ago? Woah, has it really been half a year since I stopped drinking soda/caffeine? Craziness!), and getting ready to delve knee deep in a brand new exciting project. […]
wish I could be in Brasil w my four cousins… Last night I was rereading Pema Chodron’s book Start Where You Are. If you haven’t read it, what are you waiting for?? Pema’s words are like liquid gold, every drop is filled with such wisdom it takes your breath away. Anyway, the passage I read […]
“…whatever we’re doing could be done with one intention, which is that we want to wake up, we want to ripen our compassion, and we want to ripen our ability to let go. Everything in our lives can wake us up or put us to sleep, and basically it’s up to us to let it […]
It has been a very HTMLy type of week. I decided it was time I created a new header for my blog and phew did that take work! I give props to all graphic/website designers out there. After creating my header, I decided my whole blog needed a sprucing up. I wanted a space that […]
