The Boston Globe has a beautiful series of Diwali photos up now. Great way to start a Sunday.

Where do you find answers to your major life decisions? Hopefully you have a few trusted friends. Maybe your family still gives good advice. Obviously you have Google. But at some point aren’t you tired of digesting everyone else’s advice? Where’s your intuition? Once I started listening, I found answers everywhere. Some are quiet, some [...]

We can continue hating grapefruit. This is my new food pyramid. From the inimitable xkcd.

The Times had a (long) article on worriers in Sunday’s magazine. Studies have identified a subset of infants/children with “high-reactive” temperaments. They go on to be inhibited adolescents, and anxious adults. So if relaxation techniques don’t seem to do you much good, it could be that you’re naturally wired more tightly. This isn’t all bad, [...]

Ahoy people! Someone nice has gone and interviewed me. What are the hidden gems of the NYC yoga scene? What’s the best music for yoga practice? How awesome is the Yogoer iPhone app? I know these are the questions keeping you up at night. So go ahead and read the full interview on MindBodyGreen! Q [...]

Wired has a great article about the increasing effectiveness of placebos (and how the drug companies are scrambling to keep up), and it turns out that a large variable is COLOR: Yellow pills make the most effective antidepressants, like little doses of pharmaceutical sunshine. Red pills can give you a more stimulating kick. Wake up, [...]

I just finished a really strange book called Think and Grow Rich. If you can get past the title, there are some powerful thoughts inside. I kept hearing about it from various blogs and teachers, so I finally gave it a chance. Author Napoleon Hill was commissioned by Andrew Carnegie (in 1908) to interview over [...]

Today I was thoroughly bruised by a doctor with a butter knife. I have never been happier. It’s called the Graston Technique, and it might be the most efficient massage I’ve ever had. Six stainless steel tools, just begging for Sweeney Todd marketing partnerships, are rubbed and dragged across your oiled skin in order to [...]

Toddlers like to imitate. That’s why it’s important to refrain from using profane words or doing things that you tell them not to do (not so easy sometimes). My 15th month old loves to copy what Mamma does, which, at times, is adorable. One day I was doing yoga poses in front of him. I [...]

Yoga is full of so many tips and new habits that it’s sometimes hard to remember them all, and put them into practice in your actual day-to-day existence. But this is what we mean when we say it’s a lifestyle. Case in point. I was really really busy a while back, and remember having something [...]