This morning, in the first moment of awareness of being conscious, the first thought or emotion that enters my head is a crushing weight of depression. This is the first act of awareness as soon as I wake, after I leave the blissful state of sleep where we are innocently free of all the heaviness of the world. It is an interesting transition for me. During periods when I deal with feelings of depression, I notice that when I first become conscious in the morning, there is

I just used some tuna belly (toro) sashimi left over from lunch at a restaurant and laid it over a bed of lettuce, with cucumber, tomato, fresh avocado, slivered onion, also good with a few strips of dried nori. You could just stop by a Japanese restaurant (I like Eden on Lansdowne downtown) and pick up some take out sashimi of your choice. Make the dressing and pour it over the salad. Dressing: 1/2 of a fresh lemon 1 Tbsp soy sauce (or Braggs to be more healthy) dash of was

One of the things I love about being a teacher of yoga is that it regularly forces me to examine my own life and how I am living it. This is due primarily through the class themes that we have. Most of us know that yoga is not just a physical exercise practice. In the truest sense of the word yoga, the physical postures actually make up such a small part of the whole of what yoga is. Yoga in its biggest form is an avenue for self discovery on all levels, a means to heal our