Being human
and life's little mysteries

What a difference twenty-four hours can make. After yet another sleepless night (crazy talk, I tell you), I spend the early hours taking...

PYS 1.33: Maitri Karuna Muditopeksanam Sukha Dukha Punyapunya Visayanam Bhavantas Citta Prasnadanam Definition: Maitri -friendliness...

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that being alive means that the body is in a constant state of flux. In today’s western word of ‘doing’...

There is more to life than increasing its speed. –Mahatma Gandhi It never ceases to amaze me how people spend their time. Whether its...

After a long day as a ‘lady in waiting‘, I was eventually sent home from the hospital; no new liver, not even a souvenir t-shirt! Not...

My husband sometimes reminds me that we’ll will never be as young as we are now. He’ s right, and experiences in my life have helped to...

I’ve never been an avid swimmer. While admittedly I’ve spent afternoons with ridiculous looking swimming goggle intents around my eyes...

with Rhian Stephenson, Naturopath & Nutritionist & Lizzie Reumont, Jivamukti Yoga Teacher and Bodyworker (that’s me!) We all carry a...

After a blissful, blessed evening with beautiful beings offering up pure love in every direction, it is hard for me to believe that this...

By all accounts, this week was an important week. This evening I returned home to my beautiful family without pain, and have remained...

Monday marked the beginning of Transplant Assessment Week, the week that consists of many tests and procedures to establish whether or...

Often in life, our ability to connect or estrange people lies in the language we use. Body language plays a part, as do tone of voice and...

When I see a corpse, I want to bury it, not eat it. Ingrid Newkirk Grandma the cat was twenty years old when she died on the morning of...

As I lie here in bed with the first sun in twelve days piercing through my window, I feel nothing but gratitude. I have been humbled,...

Modern Yoga Will Not Form a Real Culture Until Every Studio Can Also Double as a Soup Kitchen and other observations from the threshold...

It has only been two days since I was released from the hospital, but I’m already easing myself back into life in London. Yesterday, I...

Beyond the doors of the A&E, past the corridors of the Surgical Assessment Unit is the Gaylord Ward, a unit for long term visitors who...

Sat-sangatve nissangatvam nissangatve nirmohatvam Nirmohatve nishchala-tattvam nishchala-tattve jivanmuktih Bhaja govindam bhaja...

It’s that time of year again as millions of Americans prepare their annual Thanksgiving feasts. Some may be preparing physically for a...

The Self Practice. Ok, not really an old haunt, but rather, an on-again, off-again friend that on occasion I’ve spent more time with than...