MARIE KONDO YOGA: How the decluttering guru got into my yoga teaching head, the fullness of life and how and where I find creative inspiration to teach YOGA.
Live in Flow: How to Balance Your Doshas
In the post preceding this one, What’s my Dosha?; I wrote, that in order to live more in FLOW with Life, to be truly healthy and vital, it is essential to balance our Doshas. And since you now have an understanding of the energetic qualities of the 3 doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha I know we can […]
What’s my Dosha?
From golden milk lattes; to smoothies fortified with coconut oil and cinnamon; and yoga classes that promise to balance your dosha, the healing power of Ayurveda seems to be everywhere, yet for many of us, it’s a bit of a mystery. What is it exactly and what makes Ayurveda so special?
Why Hot Yoga doesn’t do it for me…
This is the year I turn 40. It’s a big one for me. And I’ve been casting a lens at various aspects of my life to see where I am stuck and where I can challenge myself by switching things up, especially if I feel I am in a rut. So, in an “expand my yoga […]
Make Change Within: A Free Guided Meditation + Challenge
What is life like when we act from a place of no fear? When we tune into our truth and our inner light? I cannot think of a more POTENT day than this one to offer up a guided meditation that I created in collaboration with Halfmoon Yoga called “Embodied Light.” Use it whenever you want more […]
7 Steps to Living your Best Year Ever
I awoke January 1, 2017 still tired, feeling the lingering effects of a nasty cold and flu that I got hit with exactly 3 days earlier, in the white cold of snowy Whistler, Canada; where we were hunkered down in a cabin with dear friends and our children. The highlight of the last night for me had […]
Khichadi: the Ultimate Winter Comfort Food
“Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.” Craig Claiborne If you don’t “cook” daily or often, cooking can often seem so laborious. Yet if you look at it as a way of creating nourishment for yourself and those you love, it becomes an act […]
nagnAta: luxe fashion for the Gypset Yogini
Why do we travel if not to seek the deeper meaning of life? And yet so often, when we embark on our spiritual journey, we realise that the answers to those big questions lie right here. It’s a paradox isn’t it? Yet travel and the freedom that it offers, the freedom to explore new frontiers without […]
Dinacharya: Essential Daily Ayurvedic Practices to stay Vital, Joyful + Balanced
Hello dear readers, I’m finally back in one of my favourite cities in the world, Vancouver, BC. Honestly, there is almost no other place I would rather be in the summer. It is the one season we forget the damp, cool, rainy climes of the North West and embrace the seemingly endless days of sunshine with abandon […]
Jet Plane Parenting for Modern Yogis
There is an Arabic saying that the soul travels at the pace of a camel. While most of our self is led by the strict demands of timetables and diaries, our soul, the seat of the heart, trails nostalgically behind, burdened by the weight of memory. – Alain De Botton You could say that the paradox of modern […]