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Healthy Activities Healthy Living Yoga

See the Iceberg…

Remember, it is believed that 20 minutes of effective Yoga Nidra is equivalent to 3 hours of sleep – imagine, combined with Restorative Yoga, what would that mean? Outwardly seemingly passive, what you are doing to yourself on the inside may be …radical – you are asked to be “radically present” though altered state of consciousness. With that, I am saying good night:) I finally returned to my own old- former yoga practice after a 3-weeks hiatus (should practice what I preach about regular consistent practice:) – going back to one of my favorite teacher’s class. Yes, I can do it at home but I prefer the group energy that’s “real” (i.e. not online PC screen). There are 2 others I want to go to but… again, we cannot go see everyone we are in love with – I had paid a price for not following the discipline of regular practice (yang asanas) and rest – still not the same as I thought I was about to pass out going into dancer’s pose which made me feel light headed – wait, this is not supposed to be a spinning class … but I felt so much better to get back. Ready to crawl into bed now – with gratitude for today. Good Night! Tomorrow is another brand new day – let us meet it with freshness and vitality, all senses restored.

Arianna Huffington …she’s like your mom, sister, auntie… the wise one. Sleeping so that you can stay truly awake during the waking moments:) Common sense that’s been forgotten in the haze of … lost sleep:)

Sweet Dreams~~~~~ zzzzzzz

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Beautiful Rituals Healthy Living Yoga

Finding Peace…

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In Child’s Pose.

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Beautiful People Healthy Food Yoga

Sharon Gannon is coming!

Who is Sharon Gannon? She is the co-founder of Jivamukti Yoga Studio and School in New York. I had been drawn to their practice in the past and have really enjoyed some of the classes taught by Jivamukti teachers. I especially enjoyed classes taught by Giselle Mari who teaches in San Francisco-Silicon Valley- Bay Area. Her cues are perfect, her playlist is joyful… but unfortunately, having developed this weird vertigo in recent years, I have been shy about going back out of fear of inversions – lately, any highly flowy or faster paced classes make my head swirl and whirl… and who needs a spinning class rather than yoga, when your head is indeed spinning enough – apparently too much fluid in my ear – triggered by air travels, high sodium diet (no more soy sauce on sushi, et al), inordinate stress. Yet for the rest of us, that is, for anyone in good health, I highly recommend her class for the pure joy, sunny positive energy, that exuberance she brings with her charisma, intelligence and kindness.

Her mentor, Sharon Gannon’s book on Vegan Cooking is hot off the press and to promote it, Sharon Gannon, herself is coming to San Francisco for a book signing engagement. While I understand that the book signing and practice on October 18th is sold out; because it’s sold out, there may be a session added on Sunday, so don’t give up hope:) What a treat:)as I have heard about her and seen her on videos but have never directly had the chance to take a class from her – figuring Giselle channels her beautifully; but I love cooking (Eating more so) and have been exploring Macrobiotics cooking from some of the finest local Japanese teachers (Fumi Arao-sensei, Fumi-sensei, Shinobeau-sensei) and Yukie Kawase-sensei, Japanese Vegan cooking from up and coming Rising Star, Ryoya-sensei, I am so ready to study her book and give her recipes a try!!! If I can’t go all out for the asana practice due to my head swhirling with dizzy spells – makes for an interesting psychedelic-ish practice – I am going to definitely give these recipes a try as soon as I get my hands on this much talked about book next Saturday:) SO exciting. What kind of non-vegan gets so excited about a vegan cook book? An aspiring or just an admiring one iThink.

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