Intro: Remembering 911 I grew up in suburban New Jersey on the commuter line into New York City. I worked my way through school as a junior account executive for a brokerage firm on Wall Street during the dot com boom of the late '90s and early '00s. Back then, the streets of lower Manhattan seemed to [...]
How We Can Show our True Nature and Find our Inner Shine A few months ago, I interviewed Krishna Das for my Feel Good podcast, and I was struck by a story he hold me about attending the Maha Kumbha Mela in India in 1989. It was one of those stories that sticks around, that [...]
Why Befriend Yourself in Meditation You may not consider how to befriend yourself in meditation, but when you shift your mindset, you can develop a friendly and compassionate approach to the practice. Try the following five practices and approaches to meditation. 1. Let Yourself Love What You Love Think of meditation as immersing yourself [...]
Empower Yourself with Crystals Every day someone is newly discovering how stones and crystals are powerful tools in their lives. While people get “into” stones and crystals, what they usually mean is that they buy them, they have them, and yet never actually do anything with them. And after a while, they can’t even tell [...]
Yo-Box Combines Endurance and Mindfulness in Each Session Hey, have you ever thought of combining workouts like boxing, dancing, and yoga? Well, I have! Yo-Box® is the result of 20 years of my personal practice as well as my work as an instructor in a variety of mind-body modalities. At its physical roots, Yo-Box® is [...]
Healing is an Inside Job and Melanie Salvatore-August’s Book, Yoga to Support Immunity, Gives you the Tools “Healing comes from within. We have the power to heal ourselves—no one else can do it for us; it is truly an inside job,” says Melanie Salvatore-August in Yoga to Support Immunity: Mind, Body, Breathing Guide to [...]
We are always just one breath away from feeling better when using breathwork Could something we do every day really be that simple and at the same time complex? Absolutely! It could be said that the two most important breaths in our life are our first and our last breaths...but what is most important to [...]
What is High Value Exercise? The secret to fast efficient body sculpting & how yoga plays a role High Value Exercise is a term that’s been floating around fitness fanatics lately, but what is it? High Value Exercise is physical movement that involves most, if not all, of your muscle groups in one single exercise, [...]
Transform Your Life through Understanding Meditation Are you reeling from the effects of the last few years? Does your life feel like it’s moving like a speeding train? Do you feel overwhelmed? Do you want to connect on a deeper, more spiritual level? Would you like to feel more grounded in your life? If you [...]
I'm learning right now just how fragile life really is. My husband and I watched in terror from our bedroom window as enormous red flames rose high into the sky. Started by an arsonist, the Palisades Fire jumped from 100 acres to 750 acres in just a few hours and, at the time [...]