A few years ago I stumbled on "The Minimalists" TED talk. Much of what they said made sense, and a lot was what my mother practiced my whole life. If it doesn't have a use or make you happy why have it? Are you surrounded by stuff? Imagine living an intentional life, not a perfect or easy life, but a simple one. As I watched more videos, I came to a realization. Much of the things I own, actually owned me. Above all, much of what I owned did not make me happy, and was actually adding stress to …
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The Yoga Diet – 25 years meat free
Having a yoga practice is much like the Matrix, only once you're on the path can you truly experience how deep the rabbit hole really goes. However you find yoga, once you embrace the practice as a lifestyle is when your spiritual journey truly begins. Living your yoga, rather than doing yoga is a very different thing. One way I live my yoga is my diet. For the last 25 years I have been meat free, which I consider to be the optimal yoga diet. What's the difference? There are so many …
5 Essential planning tools for 2016
Often around this time I get a case of the Winter blues. The weather changes, the days are much shorter and I feel that transition between the seasons deep to my core. I've talked about this before here, and more recently here. However, if there is one thing I LOVE about Winter, it's the New Year! I love New Years. It's like the slate of the year past is wiped clean and you get a brand new start. As a planner, list maker and general organizing freak, I love it, because I get to set new goals, …
Another 3 Time Saving Fitness Tips
Earlier this month I posted three time saving fitness tips, and three more time saving fitness tips to promote my new free ebook "25 Time Saving Fitness Tips". Well here's another installment in the series, BOOM, and... obviously another shameless plug for my ebook. So here is "another three time saving fitness tips", because there are just so many ways to include fitness and activity into your day. If you missed it, time was the theme for this month on the blog because it's seriously the …
Soy Foods recipes from IDEA WORLD Fitness Convention
Last month, at the IDEA WORLD fitness convention I got the chance to witness change. Not only were there more vegan protein powder options, but there were vegan vendors, and vegan food demo's at the nutrition stage. As I'm vegan and wanted to get as much information as possible I decided to check out a couple of the demo's. Ok, ok, truth be told I knew there would be free food, and I figured I could sample some yummies. One of the booths that gave talks and demo's was the Soy Foods …
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