Category Archives: Nourishment

“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt”

I need to blog… I keep putting it off because there is so much to write about, and because I don’t have any good pictures to post. It seems like such a small thing but aesthetics are important to me, and too many entries with no visuals brings me down a little. At the core [...]

Mindfulness off the mat

I first began doing yoga maybe seven or eight years ago. I started my practice with twenty minutes of Rodney Yee Power Yoga on VHS, and eventually began taking the occasional class with friends around and about the Cambridge/Somerville area. This was when the Baptiste studio was really big, and I was a little turned [...]

Sleep is the cousin of MAGIC!

I slept incredibly poorly on Tuesday night, and to make up for it spent ten glorious hours in bed last night. It would have been eight glorious hours and a 7:00 AM yoga class, but I opted not to get up when my alarm went off. This 7:00 AM class on Thursdays has been hovering [...]

I think this is called cheating

So we are a third of the way through September, and yesterday after writing my blog entry I decided I didn’t want to wait until October to restart my “not really a 365 day project” project. Instead, I am going to ease myself back into it by posting here every day for the next 20 [...]

“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” Anaïs Nin

Yesterday began early, and began well. I started the day by finishing and submitting my final project of the semester, mere moments before grades were due, because, well, that’s how I roll. After the relief of that accomplishment washed over me the day could really do no wrong, and a late afternoon walk around the [...]

The Four Agreements

By definition, Holistic Nutrition is not about food. Where I studied, the science behind the food we eat was deemed secondary to the other forces in our lives that nourish us. Try to be a healthy person without an awareness of and an attention to things such as physical activity, relationships, work, and spirituality, and [...]

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