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“Disease is solely and purely corrective; it is neither vindictive nor cruel, but it is the means adopted by our own souls to point out to us our faults, to prevent our making greater errors, to hinder us from doing more harm, and to bring us back to the path of Truth and Light from…

I just spent the weekend at the Yoga Journal conference in NYC. All I can really say is, wow. I am full of mental information and physical transformation and spiritual vibration. I wanted to share especially about Patricia Walden’s class, “Cultivating a Fierce Heart and Willpower.” An Iyengar teacher who has been studying yoga since…

“Move over, green tea? Recent studies indicate that coffee drinkers are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s, colon cancer, and diabetes compared to non-drinkers, and they’re also less apt to die from heart disease.”  So begins Dan Fields’ wonderful new Beliefnet gallery, “10 Hidden Health Secrets of Coffee.” As Fields points out–and as researchers are rightly…

We just got the word about the death of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois at the age of 94. Jois founded Ashtanga yoga, and was a major force in bringing yoga to the West. His teacher, Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya transmitted an ancient lineage of yoga teachings through Jois. This is no doubt a sad day for Guruji’s…

Dear readers, I’m moving.  My husband and I bought a single family house, and we are leaving our condo behind after 9 happy years here.  And following a full weekend of staging the condo for showings and initiating the packing process, may I just say….?  This is really hard. There are specific ways in which…

My grandfather was a champion of manners, and one of the most basic ones he advocated was that the first thing you said to family members in the morning should be, “Good morning.”  Not “What’s for breakfast?” or “I’m late, gotta go.”  Just “Good morning.” In Paris this past week, I thought of my grandfather…

Just the word “Paris” conjures images of bustling cafes, intimate bistros, sparkling brasseries, and pastry.  Oh, Parisian pastry.  Stop me before I write a sonnet to thee.  Now that I’ve (sort of) gotten over my jet lag after my Parisian adventure, I’ve realized I can’t keep the foodie beauty just for myself.  So in the…

I had a blast reading the wonderful Stacie Stukin’s Fresh Living guest posts when I returned from my vacation (to Paris….aah, Pa-ree! But more on that later.).  A thousand namastes to her for carrying my Fresh torch with such spark! Her posts on making your own cloth napkins and growing a tea garden and more…

Last weekend I cooked. I’m more of an “assembler,” generally–salads; bowls of rice, beans, seweed; pasta with side of broccoli. But in my effort to become more of a food alchemist, I picked up my copy of the amazing Heidi Swanson’s “Super Natural Cooking,” and turned to the Ultimate Veggie Burger recipe. It’s not vegan,…

We all know there is no such thing as a safe tan. The National Institutes of Health has placed ultraviolet radiation, both from the sun and from tanning machines, on its list of known carcinogens. We also know the incidence of skin cancer continues to climb. In 2008 alone, more than 1 million new cases were…
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