Kismet Landing

09/25/2025

Thank you India, for such a lovely welcome! It’s good to be back.

09/21/2025

Yup!!

Big shoutout to my husband, Jonnie, for gifting me this very cool bag yesterday! Indeed, next stop is India! (Right after Newark and Dubai, but those don’t count!)

09/17/2025

This yogi is crazy busy packing for a month long trip to India, coming up very soon!! Stay tuned for lots of Ayurveda posts and pictures!

09/14/2025

Thank you to everyone who was part of yesterday‘s workshop “Finding Balance Through Ayurveda!”

The group of ladies who attended were just so special. Each was kind, inquisitive and deeply invested in their learning and wellness. And they were fun! Each person brought something unique and special to the group, and each gave me an opportunity to not only teach, but also to learn from them. I am incredibly grateful for their presence.

A deeply heartfelt thank you goes out to Olive O’Connell, for the delicious Ayurveda food and beverages. We were eating or drinking something delicious and nutritious pretty much at every point during the workshop. It was wonderful!

Another special thank you goes out to Carol Dennis, for the scrumptious homemade vegan dessert!

More information will be coming soon on our next workshop! 

09/13/2025

09/13/2025

Did your plans for tomorrow get cancelled? Would you prefer to be inside learning about and experiencing ultimate self-care, instead of being in the 90+ temps tomorrow?

There is still room for you at our half-day workshop, Finding Balance Through Ayurveda! We welcome last minute sign-ups because we want to feed you, nourish you, and teach you how to help your body transition from this heat to the inevitable chill that will soon be in the air.

For more details and to sign up- - - -

https://www.facebook.com/events/1104892164864129

09/08/2025

Enjoy these pictures of Ayurveda food I had the pleasure of treating my tastebuds and body to at a six-day Ayurveda cooking course I took in Costa Rica. It was not just delicious and good for me; a noticeable shift took place in my level of chronic pain IN JUST SIX DAYS! Amazing!

09/08/2025

In case you were wondering...

11/16/2024

06/22/2024

I quietly, mindfully, celebrated International Yoga Day yesterday, as I nursed my foot, still recovering from a pretty intense surgery a week ago. A round of chair yoga with a focus on gratitude for how yoga has changed my life, and for all I have to look forward to once fully recovered, proved to be the perfect celebration for me. As much as I would have loved to celebrate at a festival or with some moonlight beach yoga, the simplicity of my celebration brought me back to the roots of yoga. Simple. Personal. Profound.

06/22/2024

Learning to use my Cricut Maker 3 and this is my first practice project. Can you relate?? 😂

03/31/2024

So many people suffer from chronic pain, especially back pain. In fact, a lot of people come to yoga because of those pain issues. Pain is what brought me to yoga. To be completely transparent, pain has been my biggest nemesis for almost two decades. In the last few years it had begun to define me, to overtake me, to make me think growing old wasn’t something I desired. And that was depressing, so I became depressed. Pain does that.

I know I’m not alone on this path of pain. I know many others are on the same journey. Because of that I want to share my story/diagnosis/treatment in hopes of helping someone else. So here’s the lineup of issues causing my long term chronic debilitating back, neck, hip, and shoulder pain:

I have degenerative discs in all three parts of my spine. I have bone spurs in my spine. I have spinal stenosis, narrowing of the spinal column, which is causing spinal nerves to be exposed. As a result of all the above going on all these years, my back, hip, and shoulder muscles have essentially turned to stone. I am not kidding or exaggerating, they are rock hard, always. As a reaction to the stone muscles, my back has straightened, meaning I’ve lost the natural curvature of my spine, all three curves. Any one of the above issues is painful, put them all together and wowza…so. much. pain.

On my third morning in India the Ayurvedic doctor sent me to a clinic in town for an MRI of my entire spine and hips. By 3:00 that afternoon we had received all the scans and a full report, outlining everything I wrote above. So there we have it, three days in India and we get the answers I’ve been seeking for more than 15 years in the US.

I have a lot of mixed feeling about all this, but mostly I am just grateful for an answer and a care plan. My biggest emotions now are appreciation and relief!

While I’m at Indus Valley Ayurvedic Center the treatments are basically providing two outcomes. 1) The rigid solid muscles are becoming soft and supple again. That’s what is giving me 65% pain relief. 2) I am undergoing a major detoxification of my entire body. This is cleaning and healing my gut, all my organs, and it’s boosting my immunity, my nervous system, as well as all my other systems. (The healing gut is why I am not experiencing heat hives even though it’s ungodly hot here! Ends up skin issues are usually a direct result of an unhealthy gut.)

When I get home I need to see a spinal specialist/surgeon to create a plan to correct the discs and spur issues, and lack of curvature in my spine. Ayurveda can’t fix those structural issues. Finding the right mix and balance of Ayurveda medicine and western medicine seems to be the best path forward for me.

If you have any questions, ask away; someone else probably has the same question. I will gladly post my response and if I don’t know the answer I find it and share it. That’s why I consider this page a learning lab! We have so much to learn and it’s best to learn together.

If you know someone suffering from chronic pain and you think my story may help inspire or educate them, please hit the share button.

Namaste my friends