eco-living
Bringing More Country to City Life
26 Jan 2010 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • body • eco-living • wellness
I thoroughly enjoy my time in the great outdoors. It is great. There’s nothing like waking up to fresh air and the sound of birds and wind in the trees without the distraction of sirens and construction and traffic. For all its vibrancy and convenience, the city sometimes wears on me, my emotional well being [...]
Sangha Means Community
29 Dec 2009 ~ 2 Comments ~ Categories: blog • eco-living • mind • wellness
I just returned from a new year’s kirtan (devotional singing) and yoga retreat in tropical Costa Rica followed by a very fun wedding with friends (old and new) and it’s got me inspired and thinking about building community.
In Buddhism, the word “sangha” traditionally means “community of monks”, and it comes originally from the [...]
The Wonders of Homemade Soup
23 Dec 2009 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • eco-living • wellness
I’ve written in the past about the self-nurturing, wholesome aspect of cooking meals at home. (See “One Thing at a Time“) When cold weather strikes, I really start to embrace the comforting experience of preparing a good meal for myself, and particularly if that meal is soup.
Warm soup on a chilly, damp, foggy day… is [...]
Right Eating: The Slow Food Movement
30 Oct 2009 ~ 3 Comments ~ Categories: blog • body • eco-living • wellness
The Slow Food Movement is one of my favorite new crusades, although it’s not exactly “new”. Our IO Spa Yoga and Shop concept was even inspired by the movement. We wanted to be the Slow Wellness business where products and service offerings reflect sustainability, natural ingredients and care.
Conceptually, the practice of Slow Food has [...]
Animal Totems
13 Oct 2009 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • eco-living • mind • wellness
Yes, this is a blog post about finding your Spirit Animal. I love that term. It makes me laugh every time because it sounds a little silly. But humor aside, I am fascinated about exploring my Spirit Animals and opening my awareness to all the creatures of the world.
Recently I blogged about the chakra [...]
Project Ahimsa: Turning Beats Into Hope Worldwide
29 Sep 2009 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • eco-living • events
Okay I am up on my soapbox now to promote a project that some brilliant and giving friends of mine are doing. I really like to promote projects like this one that mutually support the mission of this blog: to offer readers a bridge to their better side.
Project Ahimsa is an exciting nonprofit that [...]
The Travel Bridge
22 Sep 2009 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: eco-living • wellness
The theme of this blog is Building a Bridge to Our Better Side, and one of my favorite ways to do that in my own life is to travel. Visiting other places and exploring unfamiliar terrain is an opportunity to simultaneously shrink our world and expand our perceptive horizons.
I try to get away whenever [...]
Three Words: Organic. Detox. Facelift.
15 Sep 2009 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • body • eco-living • face • wellness
I try to refrain from making this blog a forum for the blatant promotion of IO products, but occasionally I feel so passionately about one of our services that the need arises for me to get up on my soapbox and blab a bit. So here goes.
The Organic Detox Facelift is our [...]
Seeds of Change
02 Sep 2009 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • eco-living • wellness
Recently I had a moment of synchronicity of the sort one simply must act on.
I was flipping through a book called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (great autobiographical chronicle by Barbara Kingsolver, incidentally, about an experiment with growing all her own food for a year) and I learned about a progressive seed company called Seeds of Change.
Seeds [...]
People Who Like You
25 Aug 2009 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • eco-living • mind • wellness
So this IO blog is really all about finding, building, being A Bridge to Your Better Side. This has always been our mission at International Orange (a moniker we borrowed from the paint color of the Golden Gate Bridge itself), and with this blog as a forum, we aim to share ideas, inspiration and empowerment [...]
