This weekend, summer will officially begin.  Welcome, welcome!  When summer starts, I always think of this quote from Albert Camus: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” How will your summer be invincible? 

I can’t decide how exactly to react to this Boston Globe article about how some fitness buffs are, because of skin cancer fears, keeping their workouts indoors this spring and summer. On one hand, I get it.  Members of my family have had melanomas (thank God, successfully) removed, and my freckle-prone coloring has turned me…

You know the old anxiety management technique where you picture your fear as a big scary monster and then picture it doing something silly?  Enter this video, which puts simple, ridiculous, funny “hey,” “hi,” and “hello” into the mouths of scary Jurassic Park dinosaurs.  My favorite is the clip where they’re running across the field,…

At my weekly gentle Iyengar class (taught by the fabulous Liz Owen), we get beautiful, contemplative gems during the meditation periods at the beginning and end of class.  One week it might be a visualization of our vertebrae as shining pearls of energy, suspended inside our bodies in perfect alignment.  Another week it might be…

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