My god, what a week. The fatigue was unreal. I'm not sure which had the greater effect on my energy - caffeine withdrawal, the food detox, or the kick-my-booty yoga workshop…
Um, I think I'll consider this week a warm up week. A...mostly elimination diet week.I've done a pretty good job of cutting out the potential causes of digestive alarm,…
Oooohhh, coffee! Coffee I miss you! Ohhhh, your sweet, sweet caffeine-y goodness! Well, I have to share, I'm not off to the most perfect of beginnings. Let's just start with…
Herein begins the tale of a 3-week odyssey into an....(bum bum bum) elimination diet! Ever since a trip to India awhile back, my digestion has been plagued by inconsistency. I've…
The issue of poo Ever since I went to India, my digestion has been...shall we say, "off." Ummmm, for those of you who like better descriptors, shall we say..."fuzzy." Or…
More distressing news from the Blue Front. Colbert had a guest on this show named Captain Charles Moore, who discovered (or rather, did not discover, but talked about) the giant floating…
I went with my friend Vicki to see Reginald Ray speak at the Vancouver Public Library. Ray is in his sixties, has a doctorate in religious studies and is currently…
We've all said it, “There are not enough hours in the day." I berate myself: why can't I fit in a yoga practice, a jog, personal study, long walks with…
Still from "Office Space," very funny movie involving spectacularly bad management. I recently received an email from a former student. As a newer teacher, we are obviously excited about teaching…
In my role as the Director of the YYoga Teachers’ College, I have frequently been asked by recent training graduates, “Now, how do I choose my mentor?” For yoga students,…
In the furor to "get noticed" and have street cred, yoga instructors are often expected to display Cirque de Soleil like physical prowess. Can you do a crazy pose? Do…
A little context About two thousand years ago, a guy named Patanjali compiled a series of pithy aphorisms called the yoga sutras. These cryptic sayings contain clues on how to…
