I am re-posting two blogs that I wrote in the past, and hoping to get inspired to try this again! I invite you to try to empty your inbox as well! The Empty Inbox (originally posted December, 2012) Today, I emptied my email inbox. Completely. About a year ago, I wrote a blog about clutter and how I intended to …
(originally posted 1/22/2018) If there is one thing I have learned in life, it is that nothing in life is permanent. Yet we all live our lives as if that is not true. A few years ago, when my dog Comet passed away, I wrote in a blog about an article that I read by Judith Lasater* in which she said that …
(originally posted 12/16/2012) Today, I was having lunch with a friend and we were talking (well, complaining actually) about… how much people complain. I know that sounds silly, but it’s the truth. After a while, our conversation turned to why people like to complain so much. Clearly, it’s a universal thing. Whining gets you approval, acknowledgement (poor you), agreement, and …
(originally posted 11/10/2017) My beautiful mom passed away last week just two days shy of her 91st birthday. I am sad and miss her, yet at the same time feel surprisingly full. I am overwhelmed by the support I have gotten from friends and extended family and filled with gratitude to my mom for the gifts she gave me. For …
(originally posted 10/1/2017) This is a difficult blog for me to write. Generally, I have been reluctant to get involved in political conversations, and especially to use this platform for that purpose. As a Yoga teacher and studio owner, I have focused on promoting the practice of Yoga and attempted to avoid getting sucked in to mainstream conversations. However, the …
(originally posted 1/29/2017) We live in a paranoid world. Hackers are everywhere, lurking around every corner. Everywhere we turn, we are forced to enter passwords. Yet in the name of security and privacy, we humans are losing our ability to work effectively. The other day, I looked something up on Google on my IPAD. Lo and behold, a pop-up screen …
(originally posted 6/22/16) It’s been a tough week for me. If you’ve read my previous 2 blogs, you know that our Golden Retriever, Comet, was diagnosed with cancer 4 months ago, and we were told at the time that we probably had about 4 – 6 months with him. Well, it’s been just over 4 months, and last week, we …
(originally posted 5/15/2016) We have a saying in Svaroopa Yoga: “It all begins at the tailbone”. If you come to a class at our studio, you may hear us talk about releasing the tailbone quite a bit. What does that really mean? Your tailbone is the foundational point of your body. Your torso rises up from it, and your lower …
(originally posted 4/8/2016) If you read my last blog, then you know that my family is currently dealing with cancer in our 8-year old Golden Retriever, Comet. Two months ago, Comet underwent emergency surgery for internal bleeding, and it turned out he had a highly malignant tumor on his spleen. At that time, we were told that dogs with this …
(originally posted 2/20/2016) As we get older, none of us are strangers to loss and death. It is an inevitable part of life. And it is never the right time, nor does it get any easier as we get older. Part of living is learning to accept this cycle and recognize that nothing in life is permanent, no matter how …
