Dear Friends, I hope you have been enjoying the posts this month. Today, how about going back through the blog and reading one you might have missed. Perhaps make a comment on something you liked or have tried and share your results. Below you will see I’ve made a little table of contents for you for easy access! Please tune in next week for all new posts. Enjoy the holiday weekend. Happy Everything! Stacey Asana 12 Minutes to Calm, Ground and Energize Asana for Lower Back Relief Just Put Your Legs Up the Wall! Recipes Kitcharie Edible Grace Building Community Through Food Self Care Moderation: Enjoyment in Balance Oil Pulling – Removing Toxins From the Body 26 Minutes to Greater Well Being The Magic of Oil – Abhyanga What’s in Your Bathroom? Sustainability Clear the Clutter Simplify the Holidays – Ideas for Gift Giving Sustainability is Sexy
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What’s In Your Bathroom?
Many of us have already made the switch to organic foods to avoid pesticides and other harmful toxins. But do you realize your skin is the largest organ in your body? The skin absorbs everything around you and literally “eats” the products you use on it? Do you know what’s in your bathroom? Most soaps, cleansers, cosmetics and even toothpaste is made with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate which is disguised under 150 different names. SLS is a de-greaser used to clean car engines, garage floors, and other greasy surfaces. How has this known carcinogen found it’s way into our self care products? Well because it makes them bubble up and it is extremely cheap. So what is wrong with SLS? For starters, it is very drying to the skin, a known irritant, but more importantly it cannot be metabolized by your liver and studies have shown that trace amounts stay in your liver, lungs, […]
Continue ReadingBuilding Community Through Food
Jordan Schachter has been building community through food in San Francisco since 2005. Through his business, Jordan’s Kitchen, he offers the yoga of food! In group cooking classes even the cooking challenged are empowered! He always uses fresh, seasonal, and organic ingredients and supports local farmers and producers. You can join one of Jordan’s scheduled cooking classes or book one for your next private event. The only better way than yoga asana to bond with friends, new and old, is definitely over food! Jordan will be offering two different classes this January, Winter’s Bounty and Comfort Food. He has been kind enough to share a few of his recipes with us this week. As always, I’d love to hear from you on my Facebook Page. Let us know if you find your inner chef! Still need that last minute gift? Consider a gift certificate for one of Jordan’s […]
Continue ReadingHappy Solstice!
December 22 is the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. Solstice means: Sun standing still. This midwinter celebration is one of the eight sacred observances in the wheel of the year. By honoring the wheel of the year we tune in with nature and to the dance of life. Winter Solstice is a nature’s invitation for us to turn inward and PAUSE. Though we may be trying to tie up our lives before the end of the year, complete work projects before the holiday, and get those last minute gifts and social obligations in, your body is asking to be still and silent. Make time this week for inner inquiry. Journal and reflect, take a walk, have a cup of tea, and rest. The potency of your light lies within you, go to your inner space and welcome the coming of the light.
Continue ReadingJust Put Your Legs Up the Wall!
Feeling tired? Getting sick? Holiday blues? You name it, Viparita Karani or Legs Up the Wall Pose is sure to help with whatever ails you! This restorative pose should be in every modern day earth dweller’s survival kit. Seriously… if you went for a hike and your legs are tired, just put your legs up the wall. If your feeling run down and on the brink of getting sick, just put your legs up the wall. If your body is ready to relax but your day is not over, take 5-15 minutes and just put your legs up the wall. This pose may even help headaches, mild depression and anxiety, stress, lower back tension… the list goes on! It’s a restorative so it calms your nervous system. It’s an inversion so it helps circulate blood and lymph and reverses the affects of gravity. Why not give it a try […]
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