Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.  ~Frank Gillette Burgess  The body is the most incredible instrument. It is self-regulating. There’s no need to ask it to digest the sumptuous meal you just digested. The lungs seek breath of their own accord and the blood flows through the healthy heart at a regular beat.…

Trees. We rarely consider them, but without them we’d breathe at lot less easy! They give and give, even when we harm them. They give us oxygen, fruits and nuts. They provide shade to everyone. They open their limbs to birds, frogs and lizards. They never say, “I will give my shade only to those…

“Yoga is the cessation of agitation of the mind.”  – Yoga Sutras of Pantajali The word, yoga, comes from the ancient Indian language, Sanskrit. It literally means “to bind one to” or to yolk someone to something. In the ancient practices the breath binds one to the universal life breath that we all share. Focusing…

Colors and stones can influence moods and bring healing. A few years ago I awoke to a dream where I saw that wearing an amethyst would be beneficial. Though I lived on the French Riviera where Cartier and Van Clef displayed windows filled with exquisite giant emeralds, rubies and diamonds, I found the necklaces and…

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