Let Your Body Renew

I got up this morning to a day filled with my favorite activity, cooking. I first whipped up an apricot galette, then picked herbs from my garden for a soup and headed to the freezer for fish for dinner. YIKES! My freezer had stopped working. The temperature was up to...

Atha

Atha, the first word in the Yoga Sutra is filled with a depth of meaning. It implies beginning an endeavor we want to learn or experience and the willingness to put forth the effort to receive the gift of that knowledge. The ability to learn can start and continue...

Karuna

“karuna” -Compassion for ourselves and those around us. This concept comes from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra I.33. Let’s make 2017 the year of kindness. We often think of compassion as something we do for others. In order to have compassion for others we must first show...

Olympic Spirit

I was watching the Olympics this week and noticed how people from almost every nation in the world joined together for one common goal – to be the best in their sport. What truly struck me was how everyone was getting along and supporting each...

Yamas

OK, this is going to really date me. I was at the first Earth day. Growing up on a farm we were always recycling but didn’t call it that.We threw out table scraps into the orchard for compost, burned our paper in the burning barrel. There wasn’t any plastic back then....

What is Stress

Our days are filled to the last waking hours with things from the never-ending to-do list. We lie awake at night, unable to sleep thinking of what we didn’t get done or just thinking of one thing after another. We hear about the negative effects of STRESS.But what is...