What are you doing New Year's Eve? As we bid farewell to 2016, we suggest yoga Boston! From Somerville to Salem and well beyond, Greater Boston is proving to be THE destination for thoughtful programming this December 31st. Consider finishing off 2016 with gratitude and a twist (of prana) at one of these Greater Boston area special yoga events. We encourage
I consider myself fortunate... since losing my paternal grandmother at the age of seventeen, it wasn’t until my third decade of life that I experienced another loss of a loved one. Then this past May, my grandparents passed away within two weeks of each other. My grandfather succumbed to complications from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, a condition
We are not trying to learn to stand on our heads in these classes we offer. It's about teaching patients and their families to stand on their own two feet. Program Director Diane Cella sending out some metta in the Center's lobby alongside Administrative Associate Carmen Fuentes-Smith It's an overcast Wednesday morning outside the lobby
It's more the share than the give. It's the shared joy that when it's being consumed, I can feel it and they can feel it. Handcrafted Mugs from Healing Touch Pottery The famed Chef, Author and Entrepreneur Mario Batali once said, "It's more the share than the give. It's the shared joy that
Slow it down. Make it simpler. Make it softer. What is serving you today? Slow it down. Make it simpler. Make it softer. What is serving you today? These are some of the cues being lobbed at the twenty plus yogis gathered in the sun-splashed practice room at Bow Street Yoga in Somerville's Union Square.
Some of the cast and crew at Sadhana Yoga You'll find the all new Sadhana Yoga tucked along Worcester Street, among the artisnal shops and restaurants of the city's South End neighborhood. The team there likens the yoga center to an "urban oasis" offering a broad selection of classes to meet most any style of
Music... the universal elixir. It sports the dual powers to both inspire a digging deeper and also usher us into an inner quiet. In our winters and our summers, through shadow and in light we turn to music for its many healing properties. This week we invite you to tuck these three tracks into your playlist. Perfect companions
Harvard Square is peppered with its share of rich traditions, academic and otherwise. Among its many institutions sits Harvest, one of the Greater Boston area's long celebrated restaurants. As it basks in the light of its fourth decade in operation, the torch has been passed to a new generation... in the kitchen that is. Claiming that helm is
One who seeks sweat. One who finds happiness in hard work. One who finds strength in their squad and energy from their tribe. One who finds glory in the grind, and power in pain. One who goes the distance, stops at nothing, and always believes. On the Commercial Street end of Hanover Street
Still, there is an argument to be made about how the pose should be practiced not only to gain the most physically, but also to explore our true nature through the asana. My shoulders have always been hyper-mobile and floppy to a fault. So it was never a big deal for me to