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I Like the Quiet
01 Jun 2010 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • mind • wellness
I like the quiet. A lot. The quiet can be downright intoxicating or whatever the opposite of intoxicating is. When I’ve gotten really quiet, as quiet and still as I have ever been, on silent meditation retreats, I have sunk deep into love with the silence and it has perhaps been my very best teacher. [...]
Organic Detox Facelift
27 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog • face • wellness
Please, please, please stay out of the plastic surgeon’s office for at least another day! This facial does the best we can do to naturally help the skin stay healthy. Plus, this is one really healthy way to spend seventy-five minutes. Have you ever had a facial? Okay, have you ever had an IO Facial? [...]
Let It All Hang Out On the Dance Floor
18 May 2010 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • body • wellness
Sometimes you gotta let it all hang out. The dance floor seems as good a place as any. In the right setting, that is. Or perhaps just in the privacy of your own home, but wherever you choose to let it out, I highly recommend dancing. Recently I got talking about dance to one of [...]
It’s Not What Happens, It’s How You ARE With What Happens
04 May 2010 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • mind • wellness
Have you ever had something really bug you, totally fire you up, hurt you or on the other hand make you so, so happy? Yes. Of course. Okay, so then have you ever had a similar thing happen, only this time something has shifted, and this time that same “thing” didn’t bother or excite you [...]
Sing Your Heart Out at Glide
05 Apr 2010 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • mind • wellness
Lately I’ve felt more like singing. I’ve wanted to use my voice (open up that 5th chakra). I’ve wanted to celebrate out loud. Open my heart. Let loose these vocal chords. A little while back on the Sunday before MLK Jr. Day I went with my friend Jamaica to Glide Memorial Church to celebrate the [...]
Peaceful Pregnancy Massage
16 Mar 2010 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • body • wellness
So how do you spell relief from pregnancy? Well, apart from waiting the nine months to GIVE BIRTH to the bouncing bundle of joy (mixed with the minor distraction of crying fits, lack of sleep and dirty diapers)… My girlfriends tell me massage helps a lot. I’m not a mom yet so I clearly can’t [...]
Bridezillas Are So Last Season
10 Mar 2010 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • wellness
While we can’t be ultimately responsible at IO for the behavior of our clients that become brides, we can help ease the wedding planning pain and maybe, just maybe, avoid some unnecessary Bridezillas. Listen up, if this sounds familiar… So you’re getting married? You’re just about as excited as you can be about the man [...]
It’s Only A Mind and its Job is to Think
02 Mar 2010 ~ 1 Comment ~ Categories: blog • mind • wellness
Sometimes I want to stop my brain. Stop it from thinking. Stop it from thinking things I don’t want to think anymore. Just STOP already. But try as I might it just doesn’t stop. My mind just keeps on thinking and thinking and thinking. Sound familiar? It’s helpful to remember that it’s just a brain [...]
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 [...]
Dark Chocolate and Massage
17 Feb 2010 ~ 0 Comments ~ Categories: blog
Sounds like a good time, doesn’t it? My friend Jewel makes one of my very favorite chocolates on the planet. Jewel is also part of the IO extended family. She actually used to work at IO in the very early days right along side me and Melissa back when we were our Front Desk Team [...]
