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Amazing Ants
New York City is a wonderful example of how no system works in isolation. (We'll get to the ants in a minute.) The city of Manhattan,...
Anytime Biscuits
I love biscuits. My mom used to make biscuits like these, free form and oversized, for breakfast and we'd slather them with butter...
Doing it differently: Yoga School
"Because that's the way it's always been done" is a terrible reason to keep doing something the same way. As is, "but that's how...
Super Simple “Monster” Cookies
You're simple and sweet Why do they call you monster? You do not scare me! These debuted at class last week and somehow I agreed to...
7 New Habits for Earth Month
Many of us consider every day to be "earth day." Still, it's good to have an even brighter spotlight on ways we can improve. It's...
Magic Spring Sauce
It's not a pesto, it's not a chimichurri, it's a magic sauce perfectly suited for spring. Make it and put it on everything. Roasted...
Four Favorite Poetry Books
...and one poem. Yesterday was a day of poetry. I've been sharing a poem at the beginning and/or end of class on Sunday mornings...
The practice of perplexity
"Part of the spiritual tradition is to unsettle us." That's a line from a recent On Being podcast with secular Buddhist teacher and...
It’s Just Yoga
After selling It's All Yoga last year, I realized that if I were to open a studio now (which I'm not and don't have plans to ever:),...
Go-to dinner starter
One of my favorite "basic" meal starters is this base of mushrooms and a green. I almost always have those two things on hand (they...
3-step morning routine
It has come to my attention that not everyone scrapes their tongue first thing in the morning. And that they might be interested in...
My sleep test
Tired of being tired For years I have dealt with insomnia. Some of it seemed "normal" -- anxiety over buying my first house,...
manage your waste line
This was the clever title of an article in the SF Chronicle this past Sunday. Molly de Vries, from Mill Valley, is a self-described...
vegan baking
Around the holidays I got into the habit of baking for the folks in my Sunday morning class. It was so fun for me (and they seemed to...
cold care protocol
After almost two years of not getting a cold, last week I had one. But it was mild and short and I fully believe all my "woo...
a personal steam
As we covered last week in the Sad News for Smoothies post, winter is the season of the kapha dosha in Ayurveda. This season is...
bad news for smoothies
Smoothies in the news A few years ago there were different versions of a popular post going around called Why Your Smoothie is Making...
memories
Like many people, at the end of every year I do a general review of how things have gone the past 12 months and some dreaming and...
new year motto
Like many of you, I like to choose a word of the year. Something to use as a filter for decisions, a guiding idea, a reminder. I...
gingerbread yoga people
If you love ginger, gingerbread, molasses or if you are vegan, these cookies will be your dream come true. I'd never made gingerbread...
winter care
If you think about winter in elemental or weather terms, our climate here has been cold and dry. Hopefully we're are headed into some...