Live with Intention.
walk to the edge. listen hard. practice wellness. play with abandon. laugh. choose with no regret. continue to learn. appreciate your friends and family. do what you love. live as if this is all there is.
- mary anne radmacher
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Live with intention.
Nourishing well is a process not a place. This is a sharing of best practices I have found to cultivate well being from my own research and experiments to remodel and re-educate… body, mind and spirit with new ways of moving, eating, breathing, sleeping, and learning. In the process I found my way home to the ground of being….and I’d love to share what I’ve learned with you…
Practice wellness.
The many routes of the roots in,.,
Yoga and meditation, eating a plant based diet, being in nature… learning simply to be.
These became go-to practices that streamlined and simplified my life, taught me to let go of the things that no longer served me, and ultimately enhanced my quality of life so much so that I wanted to share them.
Wellness, to have well like attributes, means connection to the source. It is an ability to attract and draw into oneself appropriate nourishment and sustenance from the ground of being in the forms of food and shelter, learning and purpose, relationships, family and potentially most importantly community.
Listen hard.
Yoga, meditation, craniosacral therapy are all practices of learning to listen to our bodies, emotions, thoughts, Self, and ultimately serve as the basis for our ability to relate to and know ourselves and others.
Continue to learn.
Becoming Full… of Empty
Once upon a time, there was a wise Zen master. People traveled from far away to seek his help. In return, he would teach them and show them the way to enlightenment. On this particular day, a scholar came to visit the master for advice. “I have come to ask you to teach me about Zen,” the scholar said. Soon, it became obvious that the scholar was full of his own opinions and knowledge. He interrupted the master repeatedly with his own stories and failed to listen to what the master had to say. The master calmly suggested that they should have tea. So the master poured his guest a cup. The cup was filled, yet he kept pouring until the cup overflowed onto the table, onto the floor, and finally onto the scholar’s robes. The scholar cried “Stop! The cup is full already. Can’t you see?” “Exactly,” the Zen master replied with a smile. “You are like this cup — so full of ideas that nothing more will fit in. Come back to me with an empty cup.”
Do what you love.
Feed People
Annapurna, the yogic name given to me…means ‘the goddess of nourishment’ and is also the name of a great Himalayan mountain. It became my yogic practice, my dharma or duty, to embody my name. And so I came to realise a quality of grounded-ness in feeding people all kinds of good food and not just food for their bellies, food for their hearts, minds and souls. One of my teachers inspired me to ‘overflow with what I loved’.’’ I love learning, from a place of fullness, not lack. One can be contentedly full of emptiness! So with great gratitude and loving kindness, I embarked to find methods for sharing what I’ve learned: great yummy recipes, the neurobiology of meditation, the power of breath, concentration techniques and practices, the anatomy of yogic postures, and of course, the yogic philosophies that I have studied since my early 20’s, ways of being that ignited my path, kept me grounded and launched me onto this journey of coming home to share what I love with so many people over these last 12 years.