Category: wellness
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The best, creamy roasted red pepper vegan pasta
Serves: 2-4 Ingredients The sauce The greens: Mix-ins: Steps The Pasta: Add water – and enough salt to make the water taste like the ocean – to a large saucepan. Bring the water to the boil and add half a box of uncooked pasta. Cook until the pasta is al dente (has a slight bite…
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Who’s a good fit for my yoga retreats?
The women who come on yoga retreats with me are diverse in background, identity, interests, and life experience. What they share in common is a spirit of open mindedness to the new: new experiences, new foods, new cultures, new languages, new people. The kind of women who join my retreats are The women who join…
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Why my retreats are all-women
My retreats are all women because, as women, we deserve to have a space all our own. We deserve silence. We deserve rest, quiet, and restoration. We deserve to not have to explain ourselves. We deserve a break. We deserve to be surrounded by other women who love what we love. To find community, sisterhood,…
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82 questions to ask other than “what do you do for work?”
The room is crowded. You lean in to hear your new friend over the din of a hundred other people jockeying for attention, leads, prospects, new converts. “So what do you do for work?” she yells. You suppress an eye roll. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of this question. We have so…
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The 9-5 is dead
For months I have been on edge, stressed by the sheer amount of work that had to be done around our wedding (evidenced by the fact that my last post was in April). When I know writing, like yoga and meditation, calms me, why do I deprioritize it? The hour per day I historically have…
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How to start meditating: From 0 to 10,000 minutes of meditation.
Over the last four years, I’ve meditated for a total of 10,000 minutes. Let me break down for you exactly how I went from 0 minutes of meditation to 10,000, how I created a daily meditation practice for myself that has been life changing for me, and how you can too. 10,000 minutes breaks down…
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The best, healthy granola
This is my go-to granola. I make this simple, easy recipe every couple of weeks and eat it for breakfast every day. Mix it with nut butter to top your morning yogurt, grab a handful when you need a snack, or simply add almond milk for a quick breakfast! Ingredients Steps: Preheat your oven to…
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How to get back into yoga after COVID
COVID’s 4th Anniversary… Four years. A lifetime. The gaping chasm between what was and what is. My brain scrambles to remember, recollect, collect, conform, organize, to make it all make sense, stuff it all into a box somewhere and make it all go away. Simultaneously. To not just move on but move on as if…
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Yoga retreats will change your life
Going on a yoga retreat will change your life. I say this from years of experience, having both attended and led yoga retreats around the world. Yoga retreats blend 1) the physical and mental benefits of yoga and 2) the presence of mind from meditation with 3) the spiritual freedom and exploration of travel. Retreat is…
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I read 52 books in 2023. Here’s how.
I’ll let you in on a secret. I read as much as I do because I You know one of the main reasons why you’re not reading? You’re forcing yourself to read an author, genre, or style of book that you just couldn’t care less about. This is classic sunk-cost fallacy: the phenomenon whereby a…
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Yoga: The #1 Way to Boost Employee Wellbeing
In today’s fast-paced corporate world, where stress and burnout are commonplace, thoughtful organizations are starting to recognize the crucial importance of employee wellbeing in driving employee retention, productivity, and job satisfaction. As unlimited PTO and other generous paid time off become standard, what are companies doing to stand out from the crowd? These stand-out efforts…
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My life-changing habit of a social-media free weekend
How do you want to spend your time on Earth? According to DataReportal, the average user spends about 2.5 hours per day on social media. That’s 864 hours (or 36 days) a year spent scrolling. Should you live to be 72 years old, that’s 5.5 cumulative years on social media. You’ve heard the adage ‘you…