When Ayurvedic doctors read my pulses, they say, “your body type is pitta/vata: fiery, intense as a first default; airy and quick as plan B; not much Kapha, not much Earth.” My husband Jon is Earth, the contented cow in the field moving ever so slowly from one comfy patch to another. There’s not much… Continue Reading
Happy Spring! It may not feel like spring out there but it is coming. Lift your weary winter spirits with this workshop. If you are sick of diets that don’t work, if you are tired of not knowing what or how or when to eat, if you want peace with food and body, come to this… Continue Reading
My body feels full and dull. Fatigued, tired even behind the eyes. Fog. Heavy. Jeans tighter than they are in jaunty summer. No charge, no juice, sluggish. As a mammal, I yearn to hibernate. I miss the coming-alive of spring and summer, or maybe I miss youth. Maybe I miss the illusion of never-ending… Continue Reading
“Gradually something tiny will begin to change. If you keep coming back to feeling your feet on the ground under you, you’ll notice. Come into right now. Rest here.” I had no idea what these soft words of my first yoga teacher meant. During my first pregnancy I had signed up for “Yoga for Pregnant… Continue Reading
A week after my recent hip replacement, the home-health physical therapist graduated me from a walker to a cane. Days later, I walked unassisted. I passed the PT’s required checklist early, so he discharged me sooner than expected. He shook my hand and said, “Wow!” Three weeks after surgery, the doctor studied my x-rays and… Continue Reading
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