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The Long Drive Continues — Utah to the Sea

Around noon I began to wonder how crazy I was to plan the long drive I was taking. The second day of 500 plus miles. Mile after mile of standing on the pedal and holding the wheel. It was uncomfortable. I wasn’t bored, though, actually. I was enjoying the drive, the country unfolding before me. […]

Lifestyle, Travel

Loomings of a California Spiritual Journey

Your first job before leaving on a geographical spiritual journey is to make sure you and the equipment are ready. But tonight as I prepare to leave, the car is out of gas. And I am rushing around the kitchen, making pizza. Thinking that I will eat some now and some tomorrow. And some when

Lifestyle, Travel

The Conference Plank Exercise Challenge

What is the plank exercise challenge and what could plank pose do for you? Plank pose helps you have a flat stomach, lose weight and walk gracefully. This week during conference night those of us who don’t do conferences came up with the idea of plank exercise challenge. I was with the specials team (that

Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Yoga

Will Tea Break A Fast?

Will tea break a fast? And how I maintained my weight all these years … drinking tea All this noise about intermittent fasting has brought forth the question of what, exactly is fasting? In a world of so-called “cheat days,” are there cheat foods for fasting diets? First: Will Tea Break Your Fast? First of

Lifestyle, Healthy Living

Bikram Yoga: A Brief Evenhanded History

Bikram Yoga changed lives and revolutionized studio practices. Without doubt there was misconduct. Yet many yogis feel they owe him a debt for his hot yoga practice, even as they question his methods. Heard today in the studio: “Who was Bikram? Isn’t he sort of controversial?” This post will attempt to briefly answer questions about

Yoga, Lifestyle

Vanity Cooking and How it Diminishes Quality of Life

Martha Stewart No More? Hello America I have bad news to tell you. Which could actually be good news. In the last thirty years, you’ve been sold a bill of goods about cooking. Cooking is not a game or a recreational activity. Vanity cooking has obscured a human truth. Which is that cooking is work.

Cooking, Lifestyle

Why Do Some People Not Love (Ok, Hate) Yoga?

I was minding my own business reading a surf blog when suddenly the author interjected negative sentiments about yoga, “a holistic discipline that combines physical postures and ethical principles to promote physical and spiritual well-being. It does very few of these things in my experience except breed a superior minded person with stretched out tendons.”

Yoga, Lifestyle
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