Insights and Inspirations from Around the World
Savoring Autumn
Ahh, autumn - long sleeves, falling leaves, cool breeze, and the prospect of cozying up to the fireplace with a down comfortor, a warm cup of cocoa, and your best friend - whether that's your mate, your dog or cat, or a great book. Quotes abound for this season, some...
Cultivating Wellness: A Holistic Approach to Mindful Living
On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you feel right now? in your body? in your emotional well-being? Are you wishing for more ease throughout your whole being? When people come to my lovely home treatment space for a Cultivating Wellness session and I ask this question, I...
Bringing the SoulMat Roots Home
I am in Italy, and what I'm seeing here is knocking my socks off. It's not the fabulous Italian sandals (which by the way no Italian would ever wear socks with) or the lovely espresso I'm drinking. What's blowing my mind is seeing the Somat in action with so many...
Varkala: Calm Ambience and a Fitting Way to Complete Our India Journey
Popular for its natural fisheries and springs, the temple of Kerala’s saint Sree Narayana Guru, and for it’s total relaxation mindset, Varkala is a coastal town with pristine beaches, hills, lakes, forts, lighthouses, altogether making it a subtle bit of paradise in Kerala.
Kerala Backwaters: One of National Geographic Traveler’s “Places of a Lifetime”
Alleppey is graceful and greenery-fringed, disappearing into a watery world of villages, punted canoes, toddy shops and, of course, houseboats. Float along and gaze over paddy fields of succulent green, curvaceous rice barges and village life along the banks, as you take in one of Kerala’s most mesmerisingly beautiful and relaxing experiences.
Speciale Vacanza Libera Stress
Cos'è e perché dovresti partecipare Per fermarti e r-allentare fuori e dentro, e per rigenerarti prima di un nuovo inverno. Una vacanza esperienziale della durata di 3 giorni in un agrivillaggio a Pomaia, una piccola località immersa nel verde a sud di Livorno sulle...
Dewalokam: An Ecotourism “Paradise” in the Midst of Kerala Spice Country
Eco-tourism is more than a catch phrase for nature loving travel and recreation. Its real mission is to accommodate and entertain visitors in a way that is minimally intrusive or destructive to the environment, while sustaining and supporting the native cultures in the locations it operates in.
Kerala: God’s Own Country
While Maldives gives us mostly relaxation, Fort Kochi will provide a bit of an urban experience, but one steeped in history. Relax, breathe deep, and step out in soft cotton shoes and a straw hat. At each and every nook of this island, something amusing awaits you. Fort Kochi is a world of its own, retaining architectural and cultural specimens of a bygone era, and still proud to wear them all.
Maldives: The Sunny Side of Life
Our full India 2016 Transformative Journey begins in Maldives, “where sands are white as the smiles of the locals, where fish swim happily in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, where the weather is a dream, and the deep rays of the sun wait to engulf you in their arms.”
The Beauty of Water: India 2016
Barbra and I are water creatures: we both love being by, in and on the water. By chance, we realized that our journey to India coming up in January 2016, is entirely centered around water: We visit the Maldives, a necklace of islands poking out of a turquoise...
A Conversation About Possibilities
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with my colleague Kathleen Macferran, with whom I co-host a series of NonViolent Communication and Yoga workshops that I've been offering over the past several months. We wanted to have some conversation around what we are...
India…back in the house!
If you missed my fabulous trip to India last year, don't worry! We're just settling arrangements for a RELAXING, REJUVENATING, ADVENTUROUS 2 week trip (or 3 with dreamy add-on) for early 2016. Many, many more details to come...for now, mark your calendar, put some $...
NVC, Feelings As They Live In the Body, & Mother’s Day
If awareness and liberation are high on the scale of what you value, you might appreciate learning the skills of NonViolent Communication (NVC). Speaking of liberation...what's your response when I say “Mother’s Day”? Let me tell you about mine; I'll put it in NVC...
SoulMat : Brush your Teeth, Floss your Back!
Many of you know I am a massage therapist as well as a yoga teacher. While I have helped countless people with back problems… I can’t touch my own back. Nobody can touch their own back. Not in any useful therapeutic way, or not without multiple bolsters and blocks and...
Seeing Yourself Clearly with NVC & Yoga
Greetings from the post-travel netherworld: I'm back in the day-to-day of my Seattle life, and still feel expansive and “potentized” by my time in India. This a rich and challenging trip is inspired me and what I'm teaching here in Seattle this winter and spring…....
Creativity and the Gift of Conflict
Greetings from afar! I'm communing with Mother India, who speaks to my soul, who I can love or hate but never feel indifferent about. I'm here with a group of travellers who trust my dear friend Barbra and myself -- two wild women -- enough to follow us and our...
How Do I Stay Healthy? (see my answer in Mantra Magazine!)
How Do I Stay Healthy? Check out my answer in Mantra Magazine! In 60 words or less, how would you describe your approach to staying healthy? This is the question Mantra Magazine asked me to answer for a feature in their December issue (look, that's my teacher Rod...
The Season of Sweetness
What I love most about this time of year is my persimmon tree. Did you know that the stunningly orange fruits ripen on the tree once the leaves have fallen off? As a child in Italy, this meant nothing to me--but I found myself drawing these trees and their fruit all...