by Catherine Reid | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Book Review
By Victoria Sweet, Riverhead Books, 2012 Buy the book Maybe you can remember a doctor in your youth making house calls, or maybe you’ve heard an older relative speak of those days. This book is not advocating a return to “those days” in any way but one: seeing the...
by Catherine Reid | Jul 29, 2013 | Blog, Book Review, News & Events
By Lilias Folan; Rodale, 2005 This book is a gem. Lilias Folan truly lives the yogic path, and she has a lovely ability to present yoga’s rich complexity in a clear and compelling style. Her teachings have an authenticity based on many decades of practice, and...
by Catherine Reid | May 8, 2012 | Blog, Book Review, News & Events, Yoga
One of the gifts of a long-term yoga practice is an ever-growing sense of ease and inner contentment that underlies anything which takes place in the outer world. This is an embodiment of the second niyama, known as samtosha, or contentment. Here’s an evocative...
by Catherine Reid | Sep 15, 2011 | Book Review
Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest By Dan Buettner National Geographic, 2008 When I saw this book on a friend’s coffee table recently, the title intrigued me, and the subtitle lit up my neurons! If living a longer, healthier life...
by Catherine Reid | Sep 15, 2011 | Book Review
Happy for No Reason By Marci Shimoff Free Press, 2008 If ancient Eastern philosophies and the current interest in personal growth had a child, it would be this book. Phrases from the Upanishads (one of the most ancient Indian texts) like, “Happiness for any reason is...
by Catherine Reid | Sep 10, 2011 | Book Review
Toxic Beauty by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. Benbella Books,2009 I thought I knew enough about healthy living to be SAFE in my own bathroom! However, one brief scan through this book showed me I had a lot to learn about some of the harmful substances...
