If you like food journals, you’ll love…
I just wrote down the ingredients of my egg sandwich in my food journal (sprouted grain English muffin, duck egg, avocado, sweet potato, greens, red onion, sour cream), and had this stroke of insight: before you can improve, you need to know where you are. Yep, not incredibly original, but powerful. There is a reason this food journal thing is so popular among nutritionists – it is simple enough, and it just works. It reveals information and patterns you maybe knew at some level, but didn’t see clearly (or maybe... Read The Rest →
Yoga in Iceland: 3 ways to connect across language boundaries.
“Lokaðu augunum. Slakaðu á öxlum. Taktu djúpt andann…” Listening to Asta Maria’s voice, I partly know, partly guess, and partly ignore the meaning of her words and follow her through the sequence at Yoga Shala, Reykjavik. I don’t speak any Icelandic beyond hello, thank you, goodbye, and arugula salad, but somehow the communication works and I’m having lovely practice. The experience made me think about how in a way we all speak different languages, even when we’re drawing from the same dictionary. How you grew up, where you feel you... Read The Rest →
