In our fast-paced world, we are often pressing on the gas pedal without pumping the breaks, leaning toward an overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system. Spending just a few minutes…
Read more
every day “Close your eyes. Fall in Love. Stay there.” Rumi It is safe to say that, coming from an Italian mother, I have always loved and appreciated food. I love…
Read more
home is [where] the heart [is] I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings….
Read more
focus on the content, not the container When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are…
Read more
from ayurveda, yoga, healers and teachers Maybe you are searching in the branches, for what only appears in the roots. Rumi I wrote on a recent Instagram post that my perceptions…
Read more
Yoga as we know it is quirky pretzel postures, zen-like grins and lots of Namaste. There are, however, 7 other “limbs” or steps that make up the practice of yoga,…
Read more
Do not fight the dark, just turn on the light, and breathe into the goodness that you are. -Swami Kripalu, Self acceptance At Wanderlust Vermont last weekend, my friend Chelsey Korus…
Read more
In the end / you won’t be known / for the things you did, / or what you built, / or what you said… What you’ll want a thousand years…
Read more
I understand prepping every meal, every day is often the last thing on our minds during a busy week, and sometimes takeout is all we can manage physically and mentally….
Read more
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be grounded. Be crumbled so wild flowers will come up where you are. Rumi I realize I might be contradicting myself here per my…
Read more
take care (but take it easy) Your true nature is not lost in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of enlightenment. It was never born and…
Read more
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the…
Read more