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Retreat, Rest & Press Reset on 2013 – July 21-26 in Big Sur, CA

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

This year I’m hosting a sweet retreat at one of my all time favorite places in the world: Esalen in Big Sur. Five years ago, soon after I had left Afghanistan, I went on retreat at Esalen with Seane Corn, Hala Khouri and Suzanne Sterling of Off the Mat, Into the World. During my week in Big [...]

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Enough!

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Last week I wrote about all the women I know who are working harder and harder and harder, and still feel they can never do, or be enough. I’ve been thinking about them all week, particularly with the polarised debate raging online and in the mainstream media about ‘Lean In’ – the new book from Sheryl [...]

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Yoga for long haul travel

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

On my flight from Honolulu to San Francisco last night I got talking to Joey, the Purser on our flight. He’s been flying for more than 40 years and he looks fantastic. His secrets, he told me, are the gallons of water he drinks every day and his yoga practice. He asked me to suggest [...]

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What is Creative Joy? Does it matter?

Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

Have you ever had the experience of writing, creating or teaching something and then hearing from someone who has read, studied or taken part in it and thinking to yourself: ‘She got more from it than I even realised I was putting in it?’ It often happens to me when I’m teaching yoga, which is [...]

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What my body has taught me

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

(This is a poem I wrote for The Body Stories, compiled by Sas Petherick. Get your free copy here) My body has taught me I am stronger than I realize And more fragile than I like. I can endure pain with courage And be reduced to tears by a virus. I am marvelous, miraculous, mysterious. [...]

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Why Kindness (Not Willpower) is Key to Starting a Healthy Habit

Sunday, October 7th, 2012

Have you ever decided to start a new healthy habit (a daily home yoga or meditation practice, an exercise regime, a new way of organising your work day) only to fall flat after a few days, or weeks. You probably ended up feeling worse then ever, since before you could at least imagine you would do [...]

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Off the Mat & Into the Thick of It: yoga at the RNC & DNC

Friday, September 7th, 2012

Kerri Kelly, of Off the Mat, Into the World, teaches yoga at the Huffington Post Oasis at the DNC Some of you already know I’ve been involved with Off the Mat, Into the World for the past four years. As someone who is passionate about justice, and who sees that central government can – and [...]

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I’m (almost) 40. Which means it’s time for you to do some yoga.

Monday, April 30th, 2012

On 6 May, I’ll be 40 years old. I will be celebrating my birthday in a guesthouse in Herat, where the only people I know are highly well-behaved Afghans, and one (relatively, by Afghan standards) less well-behaved Italian. As you might imagine, my birthday celebrations are likely to vary considerably depending on whose company I [...]

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Double your joy!

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

I realise you have a life, and are not always glued to my Facebook or Twitter feeds (as fascinating as they are, right?). So you may have missed the news that I’m teaming up with two of my favorite people – writer Jennifer Louden and photographer and writer Susannah Conway – to lead the Creative [...]

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Change-maker interview: Emily L’Ami

Friday, November 11th, 2011

I believe we can make all our choices into acts of conscious change. Even the ones that might seem superficial, like what we wear. And as it turns out, ‘what we wear’, like ‘what we eat’, is not superficial or trivial at all. The fashion industry is huge, in 2008 consumers in the UK spent £46bn on [...]

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