I teach a MAD COOL FITNESS Healthy Support Seminar in Harlem. There are three pillars to living a healthy lifestyle: 1) nutrition, 2) exercise, and 3) productive stress management. The MCF Healthy Support Seminar focuses on these areas, providing participants with practical information they can use to create wellness systems that work for them. As [...]
Why Retreat?
June 14, 2012 By 1 Comment
Wielding her extra-large cast-iron skillets and a Portugese-knit apron, Chef Mary fed me and twenty of my yoga students for three days. She fed us bergamot-laced salads followed by canary-colored quinoa. She topped delicate jasmine rice with edible garden flowers, lavender and heart-shaped clovers. She chopped onions with a royal finery, lovingly grating ginger and [...]
Mind Over Madness: 4 Tips from Drisana Carey
June 5, 2012 By 4 Comments
by Drisana Carey Unless you live as a hermit or up in a serene Ashram, we are often presented with opportunities that challenge our ability to center ourselves. Whether it’s guiding a yoga class, sitting in congested traffic, annoyed by screaming kids or “go time” at a big event, the way we perceive our surroundings [...]
“Mom Taught Me to Be a Good Sport” Quote Collection
April 30, 2012 By 7 Comments
In March we asked you to help us create something special to celebrate moms during the month of May by sharing all the ways your mom helped you grow. From more than 1,500 entries, we selected 10 of our favorites and used them to create this Mom Taught Me to Be a Good Sport Quote [...]
Come Home to Yourself
April 28, 2012 By 3 Comments
In 1996 I started Girls on the Run. The program provides girls with the tools to, in spite of a world that might suggest otherwise, honor, embrace and celebrate their internal strengths, gifts and talents. I’ve learned so much from the 8 to 13 year old girls who share their lives with me. I am [...]
We Are All Connected
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In reflecting on my time spent in South Africa, one theme repeatedly continues to arise: that I am drawn to Africa and can’t believe it took me 40 years to finally get there! Being in the coffee industry, my husband Chris had been to Africa twice and refers to it as “the cradle of life.” [...]
Clean, Green, Sexy Spring
April 16, 2012 By 3 Comments
A moonlight walk in Ohio shows me twiggy trees, forlorn after a long (albeit mild) winter. I look out onto their naked branches and spy the tiniest of life-filled capsules decorating the nudity of winter’s leftovers. Amid all the brown and dry and cold and weariness there lies within those buds a hot-pink yumminess just [...]
Stop and Look
March 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
“Don’t forget to look out!” I’m a little better about it now, but when I first started climbing outdoors, I was notorious for climbing to the top of a route, getting lowered down, and then proceed to hear every person that climbed after me rave about the spectacular view they had when they turned around [...]
Stay Juicy, Feel Satisfied
March 2, 2012 By 9 Comments
It’s 8:00 am and I’m sitting in the Richmond, Virginia airport, about to head to out Cincinnati to teach a yoga workshop in one of my favorite states in the country. Amidst the dry heat of the airport, styrofoam coffee cups and the cruel brightness of the overhead halogen lighting, I can’t help but notice [...]
When Life Gives You Lemons…
February 17, 2012 By 9 Comments
While I’ve ridden some kind of bike since I was a preschooler, I’ve never considered myself a “good” cyclist. Don’t get me wrong, I tend to hang in the middle of the pack on group rides, but I’m not an uber-confident cyclist. I do alright on flats, but fade out on hills. Learning how to [...]
