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“Every moment of your daily life is an opportunity for practice. The whole cosmos is a meditation hall.” -Thich Nhat Hanh     Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!

I've been trying to figure out how best to communicate to you my feelings about Beyond Blue, the new book just published by our blog sister Therese Borchard. Other than just jumping up and down shouting "Buy it! Buy it now!" of course.

It looks like you can add one more health benefit to yoga’s long list. This one is about reducing inflammation, a firey condition that arises from stress and other factors and makes us vulnerable to diseases like cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s. and many others. (Thanks to blog sistah Stacie Stukin for her heads-up on this.) This particular yoga study, done…

The Huffington Post has an impressive Sleep Challenge going on, full of tips for practicing good sleep hygiene, getting the healthiest sleep, and just generally making the most of your zzzs.  Check it out here. Learning so much about sleep has me thinking about waking up.  As in, how did you feel when you woke…

As a leader of the eat simpler, eat localer, eat organicer food revolution, author Michael Pollan knows some things about what we should be putting into our mouths. He started his last book, “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” with: “Eat food, mostly plants.” The other night on The Daily Show he echoed this:…

Not that this will shatter anyone’s worlds or anything, but I just realized something: today is 1/11.  Yawn, right?  One-eleven comes calling every year. But then I realized something else:  next year on this very day will be 1/11/11.  And that date will only come by once a century.  One year from today, we might…

“I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.” – Richard Bach     Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!  

My yoga colleague friend Sadie Nardini (of the Bon Jovi chant) has gotten a little press on a project she and her husband did as a New Years pre-resolution: Have sex every day for a month to help wean her from chocolate and him from cigarettes. A potentially much more fun resolution than, say, squats. It helped…

Your future might be bright, but that’s not the only reason you’ve gotta wear shades.  Oof, see what not wearing sunglasses on a midday walk on a gleamingly sunny-but-there’s-snow-on-the-ground day does to me?  Causes me to make awkward references to ’80s pop songs.  The UV rays must have shorted out a synapse or two.  Or…

“I strive to be as grateful as I am lucky.” That’s from my friend J.B., from a Facebook status update. I love that idea of keeping your blessings and your appreciation of your blessings balanced–that leaves a whole lot less room for kvetching and whinging. I guess unless you feel somehow not lucky. In which case…
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