Easy Yummy Healthy Cookies
These Easy Yummies are egg, dairy, refined sugar and gluten free!!
Hearty Nourishment
Winter reminds us to go inward, to reflect on our year, to rest more and seek out warming activities and deep nourishment.
Here’s a delicious squash & red lentil soup with complex flavors and plenty of vegan nourishment.
Good Mood Food-Quinoa Kale Salad
GOOD MOOD FOOD
Why quinoa? Well, it’s pretty delish, its an ancient grain from south america and a super complex carb and complex protein!
And when we eat clean, we feel better.
This is straight from the google search:
Is quinoa a complex protein?
Winter Salad Nicoise
The beauty of this salad is you can always increase or decrease the quantities, depending on how many are coming for lunch.
It’s all about the gorgeous colors and presentation on a large platter
What Helps
When the world feels just too much, what helps?
There are so many ways to create space for ourselves to rest, reflect, recharge and find comfort and calm amidst the chaos swirling all around us.
Find what anchors you most and let that serve you until it doesn’t.
Meeting this Dark Moment
In this moment we grieve, we cry, we rage, we act.
In light of the archaic, backward, rigid thinking of white supremacy in full hateful and disgusting bloom, this moment demands our attention.
This ruling is an affront to every human alive and to our ancestors who fought for our right to our own sovereignty
Slide into Summer
It’s Pitta season! In Ayurvedic medicine, Summer is associated with the Pitta Dosha.
Ayurvedic medicine is the sister science to yoga and is all about balancing the doshas-the 3 dominant energies that comprise our bodily constitution-which are paramount to our health and wellbeing.
Quick & Easy Spring Meal
It’s no secret, I love to nourish my family, friends, clients, members-everyone- in all the ways! It’s not only baked into my brand, it’s in my DNA.
So, after a busy weekend, where life got so lifey I forgot to make a special treat for my dear Spring yoga members!
It was 5 pm on a Wednesday and class starts at 6pm! So I opened the fridge, checked the pantry and came up with what my friend Jess now calls, the Chicka-Boom Salad!
Instructions for Living a Life
In my women’s circle, we took time to journal and share our instructions for living a life. I recently read mine at the end of a yoga class last week, and was encouraged to share publicly.
Love over Fear
The power of love is immense. It is infinite and can smother fear like a ninja warrior!
I owe my generosity of spirit and ability to love with my whole heart, to the teachings of all the people who orbited around my family life, of which my parents were the anchor.
My parents are incredibly loving, generous people who consistently demonstrate and express unconditional love. And even though Dad isn’t alive any longer, I still feel his love. Growing up, this loving environment gave me permission to express love whenever it arose and to receive love openly, without fear of judgment or rejection.
WHAT a gift!
The Art of Equanimity-The 8 Limbs of Yoga
Equanimity means to have a balanced mind
It’s the ability to look at any situation, whether good or bad and not get overly disturbed, disrupted or thrown off course by it.
Can we find the ease in the effort?
The fact is that life happens on life’s terms and we cannot always foresee what may arise, but equanimity helps us recognize that it is what it is, and it is temporary.
Yoga is Unity/Equity/Justice
Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equitable economic, political and social rights and opportunities.
And if we view yoga as unity, then yoga is about social justice. It is the work of empowering our bodies, minds, spirits and voices so we may advocate for ourselves and others. For me, it is elevating the voices of queer, trans, black, indigenous, and all people of color. It is the work of sharing my power by re-allocating the resources I hold as a result of my privileges with the people who need it the most in my community.
End of Year Reflection with Soup
The end of year invites a release and hope for more forgiveness and abundance than the year before.
Every year I do a self assessment and deep reflection to track my progress and patterns both personally and professionally.
Top Tips for Winter Balance
Taking your cues from nature, and living more in tune with the seasons, can keep you in alignment with your natural seasonal rhythms, which leads to feeling more centered and accepting of life on life’s terms.
Wintering Recipes for Comfort and Joy
Let Winter be slow, intentional and comforting.
Here are some of my favorite winter recipes I hope you’ll enjoy.
What Cancer Taught Me
Cancer illuminated a path toward radical self acceptance
August 24, 2020, they told me I had breast cancer.
News you never ever ever want to hear.
Just after receiving that phone call, my initial felt senses were:
numbness, deep sadness, fear and surprisingly, acceptance
RADICAL SELF ACCEPTANCE
RADICAL SELF ACCEPTANCE
What’s that mean to you? Is there resistance, hesitation? How has it felt, or would feel right now, to invite those powerful words in and give them a home in yourself?
I ask because we all have the gremlins of self-doubt, insecurities, fears and not-enough-ness,
but what matters is that we choose to accept them all as part of what makes us whole and perfectly imperfect beings.
Summer Luvin’ Recipes
We’ve shared a few special evenings this summer with Open House and Pop-Up Yoga events at The Home Retreat Studio and because of you, my heart is full! For all who were able to attend and to all who intended to, I thank you!
I bow in gratitude for the ways in which my dream of a healing sanctuary in the city has become manifest.
Let’s continue to connect, nourish, relax and breathe in the fullness of what remains of this summer season.