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August Break: A Picture Is Worth a 1000 Words + A Dose of Uddiyana
is there anything more luscious than cat/cow when you’ve been writing all day? my cat/cow revealed as with most things, i do cat/cow differently than most… inhale/arch back into a back bend; exhale/round back like a halloween cat, pause, stay empty of breath, and pull belly back toward spine into uddiyana. hold for as long as…
August 1: Yoga Class Doesn't Get Easier But We Do
Yin Yoga class last night at Flying Yoga in Temescal
August Break: Let the Photo Challenge Fill the Tank
I got all sparkly and inspired by a proposition put to me by Susannah Conway: don’t write, just post photos, during the month of August. Feels like a luscious idea. Focus on writing my forthcoming book, The Hormone Cure (Scribner). Post pictures of what I’m up to. Notice more. Blog less. Be in the moment.…
Yoga: The Answer to Everything
I’m going to shoot straight with you: my wonderful assistant just quit last week and I’m overwhelmed. I’d love to describe how my summer vacation is off to a wonderful start, how my meditation has never been better, how patient I am with my kids… but the honest truth is that I’m having a really…
Tips for My Younger Sisters: Sex, Weight, Hormones, Fertility
I’ve been blessed to grow up with two younger sisters and today I had the idea of posting some of my best tips about surfing the hormonal flux of premenopause and perimenopause for them, with the hope that it will be helpful to others as well. One sister is 31 and lives in San Francisco.…
Seamed & Brown: The Diet, The Attitude + The Eye Cream (and the Denise Levertov Poem)
Honestly, I haven’t paid much attention to my skin. Yes, acne as a adolescent was a serious drag. But there was a gap of relatively good skin (OK, gigantic pores, zits before my period) until now. Then, suddenly, a close up reveals a different story. Overnite, I became a Denise Levertov poem. With The…
Get Your Alkaline Broth Right Here
When I lead my Cleanse twice/year, alkaline broth is front and center. Why bother? What could it possibly do for you? We tend to love acidifying and mucus-producing foods. You know the culprits: sugar, dairy, meat, coffee, processed foods. Getting Things Back in Proportion As in most things, we seek proportion in the body in…
Botanical Bliss: Wear Organic, Eat Organic
Today I sit with the question: If we are all so clear about eating organic, why are we not wearing organic clothing? Our conventional clothes contain toxic fertilizers/pesticides/herbicides/insecticides, heavy metals, endocrine disruptors, teratogens (causes birth defects) and carcinogens. The question lingers from a blissful day yesterday spent at a “Native Dye” workshop with my friends…
Mini-Sabbatical Coming Soon
When I first went to France at 17, I was struck by how Paris shut down for the month of August. I thought taking the month of August off sounded fabulously good. Time to get expansive. Reconnect deeply with family and friends, in an unhurried manner. Time for lingering meals. Slow food. Slow sex. Acres…