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Conscious cooking is a way to uplift and give the gift of love to family and friends during the holidays. In addition to creating a good practice for mindfulness, preparing foods with love nourishes their spirits and minds as well as their bodies. The kitchen offers one of the best and most creative places for…

As the days grow short and cold, a body naturally seeks to move inside and find quiet and comfort. This is a time of year that naturally invites us to introspection. The pace of nature slows as trees become still and their growth and preparations take place internally for the coming spring.  While many of…

Fasting feeds the soul and cleanses the body. This practice which has been common throughout cultures down through the ages has fallen out of use. But it’s being rediscovered for health benefits, as a way to detox, and as a means to explore one’s relationship to food and to one’s Self. Fasting traditionally means eliminating…

“It is amazing that something so beautiful will be destroyed. But then again, that is the story of our lives.” — Woman who watched the creation of a sand mandala How much we yearn for things to stay the same. But Tibetan Buddhist monks teach that the nature of life is ever-changing and impermanent. They…

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. – Natalie Goldberg So often we are cut off from our feelings. But by staying in our heads and analyzing rather than feeling…

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.”  -Benjamin Disraeli It’s in troubled times that we discover the value of friendship. I once heard someone refer to friend-ship – as a boat that helps you sail through rough and turbulent waters. Be…

Life is an adventure. Explore it. Opening the heart can become an adventure. Recently a friend wrote to me in a state of shock. She was on her way to the hospital for a surprise – open heart surgery. I felt her shock even through the email. It’s always difficult to know what to say,…

“Love is neither sentiment nor emotion. Love is energy.” – Sathya Sai Baba Some of my best and greatest teachers have been embodiments of love. They teach through example. My grandmother, Eva, gave me good lessons. Regardless of my childish and often egocentric ways she’d always wrap me in her thick, warm arms and give…

“We are all One. One Energy, from One Light. Let us band together as humans with love for all of humanity, living each day in harmony as we explore our spirit.” – Kala Ambrose We are all energy. Beyond the physical body, we are also made up of the emotional, etheric and astral bodies which…

On the beaches of South Carolina near Seabrook Island and Kiawah, dolphins come together to  “strand feed.” At low tide they swim to the shore at an inlet and collectively, they herd fish onto the shore and the dolphins jump onto the beach to gather the fish. I watched them yesterday as they worked in…
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