Sandying Goes Yogaing
I teach. I practice. I teach. I practice. Yoga is becoming a bigger and bigger part of my life. But what have I been up to? Last month I attempted a 31 in 31 (trying to take 31 classes in …
Author: Sandy
PSA: People Talk
Communicate early. Communicate often. Right? Well, apparently not… But today’s beef is a little different from the sins of omission and lying I’ve recently touched on. Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of people arguing against open communication. People still …
Back in Boston in Time for the New Year
AKA Down with 2009 I got back to Boston from Oregon on New Year’s Eve day. Just in time to compare notes with my roommates on what made 2009 the worst year of all time. Between intense breakups, break-ins, and …
From the Bookshelf: The Death of Sigmund Freud
With all the plane hours I’ve recently logged, I had the chance to finish reading The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism by Mark Edmundson. Partly a look at Freud’s last two years of life, …
Yogi Under Fire
The practice of yoga is all about rewiring the fight or flight response we have in challenging moments. Through breath and mindfulness, you begin to change the situations you’re in, or at least how you’re choosing to perceive them. That’s …
PSA: The Kindness of Truth
Recently, someone I care about hurt someone else I care about. I’ll keep the details for that novel I’ll write someday. But I at the center of all this hurt was the intention to do no harm and a whole …
PSA: Crosswalk Safety
When it’s raining out, it’s probably not a good idea to walk in front of moving traffic in the hopes that they’ll stop for you. When it’s raining out. Visibility is bad. Ask yourself, can this driver see me? Can …
Truth is Shocking
I recently learned something shocking about my family–I alluded to bits and pieces of it last week in one of my posts about gratitude, although it’s more complicated than I knew at the time… It got me thinking about how …
Episodes of a Soap Opera and PSAs
I’ve struggled with format for this blog for a long time. I am so many things – a social media practitioner, a consultant, a daughter, a yogi, etc. – it’s hard to really capture all of that in a way …