Hello fellow yogis.  My name is Rhonda and I am a yoga mamma.  I’ve been practicing Yoga for about 7 years.  Working out has been a constant in my life since I was 18 years old.  I’ve been through many phases — aerobics, Taekwando, running the stairs, boxing, lifting weights, swimming for an hour and [...]

“Mental happiness is nothing but total relaxation.” —Yogi Bhajan

It’s sometimes hard to have a happy holiday. You’re so sleep-deprived you could kill/cry, your brain is a gray mush of to-do lists, and the prospect (or lack) of family time is cuing thunderclouds of emotion. Plus, it’s so cold/windy/sunless that your shoulders are frozen somewhere near your ears and you haven’t really exhaled in [...]

There’s an article on the business of yoga on HuffPo today. Apparently there’s some money to be made in a niche where it’s mostly upper-middle class white women who take good care of themselves. Apparently some executives are using yoga to relax. I bet it all has something to do with the fixed-gear movement.

Tonight I felt simultaneously tired and tense. I turned down a job, and was all worried about upsetting the friend who offered it to me, and finishing a web project that’s over my head, and prioritizing the clients that are all reappearing at once, and grieving my boyfriend’s upcoming seven-week trip to France. So I [...]

This week’s TimeOut New York is the jobs issue, with recommended steps after losing or quitting your job. One I really liked: “…address the first issue, which is stress. Whatever you do for stress control, do a lot of it—like yoga or running.” I made that decision a couple weeks ago, when I was finally [...]