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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...

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My 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....

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My 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...

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Alisne’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...

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Wise 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...

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The 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...

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My 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...

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Healing 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,...

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Love 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...

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A 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...

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Hoping 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...

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Happy 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...

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August: 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...

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Healing 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...

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Come 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,...

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After 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...

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A 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...

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Ayurveda 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...

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Be 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...

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Haste 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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