Turtles and Dragonflies and a Rat, Oh My!
And butterflies, ducks, pigeons, snakes, squirrels, dogs and a hedgehog. What do they all have in common? In the past two years they have visited me in my dreams and in my daily life in so many ways...
View ArticleMy Love Letter to New York City
For the past few months I had been writing my October Newsletter in my head. It was going to be my farewell love letter to NYC because October was my anticipated moving date to western North Carolina....
View ArticleMy Love Affair With Trees
When I am Among the Trees When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness, I would almost say...
View ArticleAlisne’s Story—An Age-Old Approach to Cleansing
Alisne still relies on wisdom from her grandmother to stay healthy. My dear friend Alisne recently shared a story with me from her childhood in Honduras. Having just completed an Ayurvedic...
View ArticleWise Earth Ayurveda
“Contemplate your womanhood; you are uniquely powerful as a woman.” ~Maya Tiwari The altar honoring our mothers I recently attended a five day intensive Ayurveda training program called Wise Earth...
View ArticleThe Transformative Power of Spring
My favorite spring flower the ranunculus Ever since I’ve been a student of Ayurveda, I’ve begun paying more attention to the nuances of the seasons. It has changed my life so profoundly that frankly, I...
View ArticleMy Love Affair With Nature
How I Go to the Woods “Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the...
View ArticleHealing With Inner Medicine
Studying Wise Earth Ayurveda with Maya Tiwari “No medicine, no matter how powerful, can replace your own. Life is simple. We’ve made it complex by adding massive amounts of material appendages to it,...
View ArticleLove Blast to NYC–In Spite of the Heat!
Almost every day, weather permitting, I ride my bike down by the Hudson River. I often pass the North Cove Marina with its extravagant yachts hovering over the little red sailboats of the Manhattan...
View ArticleA Quiet, Mindful Evening in NYC
Union Square, NYC, Flash Mob Meditation I had the most remarkable experience on Friday night here in NYC. Yes, I ventured out on a Friday night. Not to a club, or a party, but to a flash mob meditation...
View ArticleHoping April Showers and May Flowers are Here to Stay
My daughter, Amy, and her friend, Rose, on a rainy Spring day in NYC Depending on where you live in the world there are certain months that have always been just plain WET. I grew up in Michigan and...
View ArticleHappy Earth Day!
Our beloved Mother Earth is precious to me, as I’m sure it is to you. I put together a little slideshow of some of my favorite Nature photos that I’ve taken over the past couple of years to share with...
View ArticleAugust: Don’t Forget Your Dose of R & R!
Rowing on Lake Leelanau, Northern Michigan By now you might know about my penchant for rowing. Not the racing kind, but the slow, gliding across the lake, looking at the clouds kind of rowing. It makes...
View ArticleHealing Under the Willow Trees
“If you want to meet the most powerful healing plants in the world, just open your door and step outside.” – Eliot Cowan This morning I woke up filled with melancholy and it felt so uncomfortable. Why...
View ArticleCome March With Me For Climate Change!
I don’t know that I’ve ever been so passionate about anything in my life as I am about the sad state that our beloved Mother Earth is in. My heart aches for her – the plants and animals, oceans, lakes,...
View ArticleAfter the March
Just a quick update on my experience at the People’s Climate March last Sunday. It has taken me days to feel fully recovered! When I dragged myself on Monday to an appointment with my...
View ArticleA Time to Turn Within
I love all the seasons, and following an Ayurvedic lifestyle by living in harmony with Nature has made me even more aware of the importance of each of them. But if I had to pick a favorite, fall would...
View ArticleAyurveda and Mother Nature Are One
Central Park, April 2015 If Ayurveda confuses you, all you need to know is that at its core is the teaching we are one with Nature. It’s pretty simple. We are air, ether, fire, water, and earth. In...
View ArticleBe the Cherry Tree
“Because we are formed from nature and have a sympathetic resonance with her, only nature can heal us when we become ill. When we eat when we are hungry, rest when we are tired, and create when...
View ArticleHaste Ye Back
Fairy Glen, Isle of Skye Scotland has seduced me – with its otherworldly green fairy hills, mountainous vistas, lochs and glens, ancient castles, monasteries and standing stones, quaint villages, sheep...
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