It's day 4 of this yoga thing, and while I have a long road ahead of me in terms of sticking to it, it's been helpful to write about it every day.

NOTE: There's an update about today's practice, including the sequence, below. 

Last night my husband and I went to… Read full post »

I married my husband for a lot of great reasons. He's fantastic. He is the vision of an enlightened male, and he's a talented journalist, and hilarious, too.

But he is not a yogi.

I've been trying to get him into yoga since just after we met, but it was pretty… Read full post »

Apparently, fatties aren't beautiful people. (Tell that to the nude models in this photo... but we'll get to them, too.)

Exhibit A: According to CNN, that's what BeautifulPeople.com founders said in a statement released yesterday about why they chose to drop 5,000 members&n… Read full post »

Welcome to a new segment of my blog called "Yoga Nerd," highlighting Sanskrit and philosophy, my own personal realm of nerd-dom. I'm doing this because I have found throughout my life that most yoga in the West focuses purely on the physical, and there's plenty of blogs and teachers and magazines… Read full post »

This morning I woke up with a lot of soreness. A lot of soreness. Yoga is a total workout of every muscle in the body. Only my neck wasn't sore, but my shoulders, back, arms, legs - even the backs of my hands and bottoms of my feet were sore. Not… Read full post »

This morning the alarm went off at 8 a.m. - pretty bright and early for a Sunday in this house. I hit the snooze button a couple of times, and finally rolled out of bed at 8:30, shuffled into the kitchen to make a cup of tea, and then it began.… Read full post »

I started this blog because I'm committed to positive body consciousness, healthy and delicious food, and my own progress with self-acceptance. The new year is here, and I am not one to make resolutions, but I am one to set realistic goals for myself.

I was a regular yoga practitioner for… Read full post »

Two people I love died this week - one here in the US who succumbed to breast cancer after a long and intense battle, and another one in India who died of a sudden massive heart attack, tragic and unexpected. Amid the holiday festivities in our house, I've been sad, and… Read full post »

Today is both the winter solstice and the first day of Pancha Ganapati, perhaps the first truly American Hindu holiday. Any Ganesha holiday is a holiday full of sweets!

This is a food blog really, but since I'm an American Hindu, I thought I'd write a little bit about one… Read full post »

When I was a kid, my dad worked on top-secret stuff for the military. He traveled hither and yon, and while he could never tell us where he was going, he would always let us know where he had been when he got back, once it had been declassified. One year… Read full post »

It's hard to believe that a site with 300 million users and massively downplayed (but very serious) changes rolled out today to its privacy policy are getting nary a blip in the national media, and only a couple of small stories in tech zines, despite a growing furor from users. But… Read full post »

Today, as I was scrubbing the kitchen floors and counters, removing weeks of dust and crumbs and splashes, I thought it was ironic that here I was, spending the day barefoot and in the kitchen. Me, the liberated woman, doing housework, feeling more liberated than I have in a long… Read full post »

They call it the wonder grain, the Incan superfood, the grain of the gods.

I call it delicious.

Quinoa is a nutty, delicious, and somewhat mysterious grain-like seed that hails from the mountains of Peru. It can be used as a grain (and we'll call it a grain from here… Read full post »

Picture this: you're in a restaurant. Not too fancy, but a really great place known for its quality. The meal has ended, and the waiter returns to ask you if you'd like to order dessert.

 This is a make-or-break moment for a lot of women. What goes through your mind? If… Read full post »