snack 12.10: ripe banana.

“the world inverted.”

pre-yoga snacking: ripe banana.

Reverb 10 Day 12!  Today’s prompt is: This year, when did you feel the most integrated with your body?  Did you have a moment where there wasn’t mind and body, but simply a cohesive YOU, alive and present?  [What am I talking about? Click here for the backstory.]

I really love to [...]

summer missions.

I am currently on two missions in life.

Though they are rather predictable for me, they are important undertakings nonetheless.

One: experience every wine bar in the city.

Two: take advantage of every yoga deal in midtown and lower Manhattan.

a new wine bar: vyne, where a look of disappointment at the lack of flights on the [...]

active enjoyment.

In the past, I could never understand people who led intensely active lifestyles and claimed they simply “enjoyed it.”  

I just didn’t believe it.  I was convinced that they were hiding another motive: perhaps they felt they needed to exercise X amount in order to eat X amount, or they felt they wouldn’t maintain their [...]

dedication.

I have never been an athletic person.  In high school, I was the girl who stood in the back during gym class, chatting with her friends and letting the dodge ball pass her by.  If it hadn’t been a requirement, I can guarantee I wouldn’t have even owned a pair of sneakers.  I remember specifically [...]

try it out.

So, I almost died in yoga this morning.

I find it ironic that I went Saturday morning after 2 margaritas and a glass of wine and felt strong and fabulous, and today, following an early bedtime and an evening mug of tea, I sweat more than I possibly ever have in my life.  Where is the [...]