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You gotta love it. The pharmaceutical companies have been creating new diseases for quite some time now in order to peddle all the drugs they invent to bilk us of all our money and make us a life time user.
But this is going over the edge. I don’t even know if it is the pharmaceutical companies (or their cohorts the corrupt food and medical industries) that are involved here, but it sure smells funny.

The following is a description of Orthorexia Nervosa a new “disease” relating to those of us w… Continue

My daily yoga and meditation practice has taken me to new levels of contentment and tranquility. Or is it something else?

This contentment has overlapped into many areas of my life. Here are a few good examples that come to mind.

I am no longer easily provoked. Or should I say, when I am provoked, I am not as likely to react in a negative way. I look inside and see my anger or my judgment and more often than not I choose to be silent. I don’t have to be right, I don’t have to have my say. I fi… Continue

As much as I love New England and think it is one of the prettiest places on earth, it’s not like me to stay put here for the whole winter. And this year, when I was stuck here…of all times…it was the year that nature provided us with one of the snowiest, coldest and wackiest winters in decades.

So, just when I really, really wanted and needed to get away from this endless winter, circumstances made it impossible for me to leave.

But now, finally I can get out my traveling shoes and pack my ba… Continue

I am doing a cleansing fast right now and have written a few blogposts about fasting. I also posted what the experts have to say about yoga's amazing effects on our bodies everytime time we practice and why they recommend that we practice yoga every day, and especially during any type of cleansing fast. You can read more about it here

“Words fail to convey the total value of yoga. It has to be experienced” BKS Iyengar


Practicing yoga with my husband since January (the beginning of World Yoga Practice Month ) has been both a joy and a challenge.

It has been a joy because I love my yoga practice and have wanted my husband to practice with me for some time now. The challenge comes in when I am trying to keep the practice interesting enough for him to keep coming to the mat everyday.

He is an avid exerciser and a runne… Continue