“May you be happy, May you be peaceful, May you be healthy and free of illness” — Lovingkindness or Maitri Meditation Sit comfortably in a quiet place. Take three long breathes from deep in your diaphragm and belly, inhaling in slowly and deeply through your nostrils and exhaling as slowing as possible by blowing gently and softly through your lips. After your three long relaxing breathes, scan your body from the feet up, consciously relaxing and letting go…Read more …
My Nutritional & Lifestyle Philosophy
Set an Intention to Reach your Goals
The new year is a perfect time to remind yourself that each day offers the opportunity for new beginnings. Set an intention. Make a plan. Think short term and long term in a variety of areas of your life: nutrition, fitness, mental attitude, work, love, leisure. Happiness and well-being are currently at the top of my personal list. Each day I will remind myself to approach the world with gratitude, wonder and joy. And because feeling good is…Read more …
Life after 50, Laguna Style
It's a state of mind.The second half. Have the time and knowledge to satisfy mind, body, spirit. Your optimal diet for well-being is not just what you eat, it's what you consume mentally, the stories you tell yourself, the thoughts you think. It’s how you process what you hear, touch, read, see, taste, smell. Know yourself and love yourself, accepting all the imperfections as part of the perfection. Live in and love each ugly or beautiful moment.Read more …
Lifestyle Choices
Choose a lifestyle that works best for YOU Think about…NutritionExerciseMeditationSleepLovePositive ThinkingRead more …
You Are What You Eat
Research has shown that eating fresh whole foods (a small amount of fruits, lots of vegetables, legumes, grains, nuts, healthy oils and lean proteins) can promote good cellular health and even reverse the effects of aging and disease. If you want to be healthy, eat healthy! It is up to you what you put in your body—choose wiselyRead more …
Life Lessons from Yoga and Meditation
After over six years of regularly attending Geo’s Power Yoga class and a year and a half of practicing mindfulness and meditation with Lori Kahn at OM Laguna Beach, these messages reasonate... Lead with a wide open heart Be the fearless warrior Breathe in positive energy, peace, love and gratitude Breathe out and let go of all sadness, pain, fear and uncertainty Flood yourself with gratitude for the simple things—your respiratory system, your strong legs, your agile mind,…Read more …
A New Way of Eating
Call me crazy, or better yet, call me sane. My nutrition plan for recovery from hip replacement surgery: a whole foods plant based diet. On March 3. 2014, my “very bad” (in the words of the surgeon) right hip joint was removed and replaced with a beautiful new titanium, metal and plastic ball and socket joint. At 50 years old, I suffered from degenerative joint disease, also know as osteoarthirtis, which left me with limited mobility and the…Read more …
Healthy Eating in Preparation for Surgery
With less than a week to go until my hip replacement surgery, I am told to be off of all vitamins and supplements; and so now, more than ever, I am striving to eat lots of vegetables and fruits that will bring me valuable nutrients to keep me strong going into the surgery and throughout my recovery. I am slightly anemic and my surgeon, Dr. Andrew Yun, tells me that iron is a key nutrient necessary for optimum…Read more …
Mind-ful-ness, noun:
Mindfulness is a state of active, open attention in the present moment. When you are mindful, you observe your thoughts and feelings without judgement. Mindfulness means living in the moment and awakening to experience. To me, this is an integral part of the good life—a life filled with happiness and well-being.Read more …
OM in the New Year
I have come to see Thursday as my “me” day. This usually involves yoga on my own, a quick lunch with girlfriends and then off to OM, our 1pm meditation class at Opening Minds, a.k.a. OM Laguna Beach on Forest Avenue. Sometimes as many as six others and I will settle in, listen to Lori describe a passage or lesson from a new book each month, and then we sit silently, trying to quiet the mind for at…Read more …
