YOGUE

The BLISS List: Our Fav Yogi Friendly Cafes in Canggu, Bali

Beetroot soup, babaghanoush, roasted veggies and more plant based goodness, on the menu at our Blissology YTT in Canggu, Bali

Eoin my global yoga teaching, surf-mad husband and I have been returning to Bali for the last thirteen years; and you might say that Bali is not unfamiliar to us. Yet, we are still surprised every time we return, by the changes, development and increasing hipster-ness that…

A.K.A.: How Marie Kondo got into my Yoga Teaching Process, the Wholeness of Life and Creative Inspiration

I don’t usually plan what I’m going to talk about at my yoga classes in a formal way.  I don’t think about a “theme” and create the practice around it. But as I teach, I realize that in my teaching in that day, there is usually a specific flow and certain poses that emerge. So I thought I…

Food Matters + Mindful Eating

You know those days when everything comes together in a cohesive, integrated way and you begin to trust that there are no coincidences in life, simply events that align, once we open up to the possibility of alignment?

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Spiced Apple Almond Muffins

Once there was a busy mama and yoga teacher who realized that in her goal of always cooking healthy, delicious meals for her family that she had forgotten to bake any treats for a long long time, well since Christmas.  :-). And so she magically created a little more time one busy morning, when she ought to have been doing more practical things like organizing her teaching calendar and getting…

At the start of October, I led an online seasonal Ayurvedic cleanse. For 5 days I shared my daily ritual practices to create more health and vitality in my life with students around the globe.  We feasted on khichadi and homemade digestive teas made with simple kitchen herbs and we simplified our schedules to create more space for self-reflection and healing.

These practices are derived…

Simple Spiced Summer Oatmeal

Summer has been rushing by…   until we arrived in the middle of Ontario, to the area close to where my husband spent his youth, what we call in Canada “Cottage Country.”

Here, life has finally seemed to slow down just a little bit.

The air is humid and warm and we watch clouds shift in the skies and I find myself meditating on a paddle board drifting slowly on a freshwater lake.  I am barefoot…

Celebrating World Oceans Day: One Plastic Free Step at a Time

For the past three months, we have lived a few minutes walk from the beach in a quiet village in Bali.  I can’t quite describe how luxurious and yet simple life is here.  We awake with the early dawn light, and try to “sand-ify” our feet before the sun is high as it gets hot here in the tropics, quickly.

We say hello to the beach dogs, our son falls in love with yet another puppy and I collect…

Live in Flow: How to Balance Your Doshas

In the post preceding this one, What’s my Dosha?; I wrote, that in order to live more in FLOW with Life, to be truly healthy and vital, it is essential to balance our Doshas.  And since you now have an understanding of the energetic qualities of the 3 doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha I know we can talk about how to balance them. (more…)

What’s my Dosha?

  Golden Milk Latte via The Green Creator From golden milk lattes; to smoothies fortified with coconut oil and cinnamon; and yoga classes that promise to balance your dosha, the healing power of Ayurveda seems to be everywhere, yet for many of us, it’s a bit of a mystery.  What is it exactly and what makes Ayurveda so special? Ayurveda 101 Translated as the Science of Life, Ayurveda is an ancient…

Yogi Parenting: How to Limit Screen time so You and Your Kids can Thrive

If there is one telling marker of our current generation of parenting, it is the prevailing appearance of a phone on our person, while we are spending time with our children. Before I was a parent, I didn’t pay think anything of parents who had their smart phones at playgrounds or restaurants and yet, after I became a mama, now 7 years ago, this is all I noticed. (more…)

Why Hot Yoga doesn’t do it for me…

This is the year I turn 40. It’s a big one for me. And I’ve been casting a lens at various aspects of my life to see where I am stuck and where I can challenge myself by switching things up, especially if I feel I am in a rut. So, in an “expand my yoga horizons” experiment, I tested out how I would feel going to a hot yoga studio over this past month. (more…)

Summer Camping: An Eco Travelogue

I grew up in Bombay, India, a far cry from the west coast of North America, where I live today. Yet for a girl who grew up in the city, I was lucky to experience natural and wild spaces far from the paved, urban environment I lived in. My mother made it her mission to get us to the slopes of the Himalayas or to a nearby “hill station” (or hilltop town) for school breaks and summer holidays.  And…

Summer Popsicles: with an Ayurvedic Twist

We love popsicles around here in the summer. What’s not to love? Home made popsicles are delicious, bursting with freshness and do not contain any nasty preservatives, toxic color or excess sugar that are replete in conventional store bought brands. And while we are lucky that there are so many good organic, natural popsicle companies now out there, I love coming up with new and simple recipes…

Free Guided Meditation + Make Change Within Challenge

What is life like when we act from a place of no fear? When we tune into our truth and our inner light? I cannot think of a more potent day than this one to offer up a guided meditation that I created in collaboration with Halfmoon Yoga called “Embodied Light.” Use it whenever you want more love, radiance and clarity in your life and follow Half Moon Yoga on instagram to join in on a special…

7 Steps to Living your Best Ever 2017

I awoke January 1, 2017 still tired, feeling the lingering effects of a nasty cold and flu that I got hit with exactly 3 days earlier, in the white cold of snowy Whistler, Canada; where we were hunkered down in a cabin with dear friends and our children.  The highlight of the last night for me had been sending the kids off to bed at 9 p.m. with sparkling apple juice amidst the sparkling ice.  No…