About three years ago as I was studying to become a hypnotherapist one of my classmates brought one of the extra-credit videos in the school library to my attention. It was called Reverse Speech. This is taking recorded forward speech, playing it backwards, and listening for words, phrases, and full sentences to reveal themselves from [...]
Maybe the stars were aligned just so. Perhaps it’s some windfall of karmic remuneration. Or, could it be that after seven months of near daily practice I’m beginning to gain a bit of facility with my Hatha practice? Whatever the case, in this evening’s mixed level yoga class I flowed seamlessly from Malasana (a deep [...]
Kicking off this Friday evening’s Soulful Flow, which is sort of a Vinyasa Happy Hour set to live music at Black Dog Yoga in Sherman Oaks, instructor Tyler Pagan thumbs the pages of a book he brought with him from his own library. He settles on a passage he considers pertinent to tonight’s practice, and [...]
I don’t know that you could call it food fashion, but just as I don’t wear white after Labor Day, I won’t make chicken soup until our planet has swung past its September Equinox. Well, despite afternoon temperatures still pushing eighty degrees Fahrenheit, the season is officially Fall, and the grocery had a sale on [...]
Walking into the Santa Monica Co-op this afternoon I passed a table with a petition— not uncommon around health food stores in California, one of our United States with an initiative process. An initiative essentially petitions lawmakers with the unified voices of hundreds of thousands of citizens who seek their elected officials’ attention, but don’t have their [...]