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Spotlight: Tartine Bread at City Arts & Lectures
13 Apr 2011 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • events • lifestyle
“Because of our temperate weather, San Francisco is one of the best places to make bread and cheese… ” Last month, I attended City Arts & Lectures’ program “On Artisan Food,” a conversation with Chad Robertson of San Francisco’s legendary Tartine Bakery and Bar Tartine, and Sue Conely, co-founder of Cowgirl Creamery. Bread and cheese [...]
A Heroic Valentine
09 Feb 2011 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • events • lifestyle
Love, another four letter word. Next week approximately 141 million Valentine’s Day cards will be exchanged in honor of St. Valentine’s Day. After Christmas, Valentine’s Day is the 2nd most popular card-sending holiday, with 85% of all valentines purchased by women. No doubt do I love a beautiful, handmade valentine. But given all the pomp [...]
Interview: Lindsay Jean Thomson at the 2011 Yoga Journal Conference
18 Jan 2011 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • events • yoga
1. What are you hoping to learn and bring back to the IO Community? There are so many ways to move and to understand and express movement. I hope to find new ways of doing this, to expand my verbal and physical vocabulary. As a teacher, my intention is always to make the practice accessible [...]
Sing Your Heart Open. Sing Kirtan.
24 Feb 2010 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • body • events • wellness
Kirtan is call-and-response chanting performed in India’s devotional traditions, sometimes called Bhaki Yoga, or the practicing of devotion. Kirtan practice involves chanting the names of the divine in song or hymn like a mantra. Kirtan is traditionally sung to the accompaniment of instruments like the harmonium, two-headed mradanga drum, and/or kartal hand cymbals. Over New [...]
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 [...]
Mother Wright: Angel to the Hungry
11 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • eco-living • events • wellness
This is the inspiring story of an unsuspecting hero who recently passed on, but first she fed many lives. May Anne Wright, known to her East Bay community as Mother Wright, was just an ordinary woman who was inspired by a lucid dream in 1980 to help the world’s hungry. She started small, using her [...]
Swine Flu Fear
07 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • events
I’m not sure which is scarier, witnessing the swine flu “pandemic” sweeping across the world, or witnessing the fear of a pandemic freaking us out and making top headlines everywhere last week. I don’t mean to discount the possible gravity of situations like this. Swine flu is a real thing and it’s affecting a lot [...]
Sandra Cantu: Breaking Stereotypes the Hard Way
14 Apr 2009 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • events • mind
Once in a while a news story comes along that draws my attention away from seemingly more colossal world events like war in Iraq, earthquakes in Italy, and pirates in Somalia. Maybe because of the local human interest element, or perhaps because it’s so morbidly compelling, but I’ve been riveted by the story of Sandra [...]
Yoga of Food Workshop: Saturday, March 7
05 Mar 2009 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • events • wellness • yoga
One of my favorite women, Carolyn Cohen, and her very cool partner, Vincent Peterson, are hosting a workshop at IO on Saturday. I highly recommend your attendance at this mini-retreat called YOGA OF FOOD (March 7, 1:30 – 4:00 PM). Be there or be square. Leave more well-rounded, more balanced, and in the company of [...]
