The change of seasons can be tough. It’s not unusual for my body to feel off during these times of transition. In Ayurvedic terms, I am Kapha dosha, which means that when I’m imbalanced, I can easily hold onto weight and feel a bit sluggish. The Kapha time of year is winter into spring, so […]

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During my study of the Yoga Sutras, my classmates and I often talk about the trouble that occurs when what's in our mind colors what we see. Despite all my years of yoga, I still find myself not seeing things as they are. Rather, I see things through my own filter. It's reality as created […]

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I've never been scared of the dark. Ever since I was a kid, I seemed to associate darkness with safety and coziness. It's not unusual for me to keep the lights low in the evening or to take a nighttime swim (sans pool lights) in the summer time or give a little jump for joy […]

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Despite today's chilly temperatures here in NY, I am in a Spring state of mind. And I think it has something to do with the big closet purge that had me fulling up bags of clothes to donate until the wee hours of Sunday morning. Ooooohhhhh, what a feeling!
My closet is far from empty, but […]

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If you're new to yoga or have been practicing a while but would like to mix it up and perhaps look at yoga a new way, this article — Simply Yoga — is a great resource.
After practicing yoga for a few years, I started to branch out and attend workshops and conferences to expand […]

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This past weekend I enjoyed two intense days of yoga training. I'm in the thick of a training program in an ancient yoga tradition. Many of my classmates are similar to me — they have a decade of so of yoga experience and much of their studies have been in a different style of yoga […]

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We’re giving HP, Lenovo and Dell a penalty point in our updated Guide to Greener Electronics, for breaking their toxic phase-out promises. The PC manufacturers had promised to eliminate vinyl plastic (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of 2009. Of the five PC market leaders, only Apple and Acer […]

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If we’re to have a hope of saving our planet from runaway climate change, we need to make it expensive for industry to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses, and we need to make it profitable for countries like Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to preserve their tropical rainforests. Sounds […]

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Anyone who’s read this blog for more than a month knows my dismal opinion of Indigo woo girl, ex-Playboy Playmate, and gross-out comedienne Jenny McCarthy, who since having a child diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder has transformed herself from D-list celebrity to A-list, where the “A” stands for “antivaccine.” Her combination of obnoxiousness, the […]

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Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge — passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa — before they claim millions of lives.
I would be very interested in your opinion on this.
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