My Body My Temple | Veg to Vegan – for Love’s Sake
November 16, 2011 by admin
Eating is an act of Love. I noticed that eating more raw food helps me be more real. Sugar is my go to for numbing out. When I numb out, I get confused and make errors. I get confused between what my heart says and what my old patterns dictate. What happens to you? Eating [...]
My Body My Temple | Veg to Vegan Week 1
October 26, 2011 by admin
Veg to Vegan Week 1 – What are you afraid of? Food is something that we relate to every single day. Whether we actually eat or not, whether we eat meat or not and of course, how we label who we are when we eat – vegetarian, vegan, flexitarian, pescitarian. All these labels come from [...]
Expelled Breath Meditation
October 25, 2011 by admin
An easy way to confront our own fear of death and to go beyond that fear to experience the undying existence of our own soul is to practice the technique of held and expelled breath. Once you lose the fear of dying, you truly begin to live. You can do this meditation right after you [...]
My Body My Temple | The Edgy Veg
October 19, 2011 by admin
“Cook with love. Dress up, put on music, make it an experience of love” says Candice the Edgy Veg. “The more I read and watched, the more I became obsessed with not eating anything that I did not prepare with my own hands. I started my blog to make a point. Being healthy, whether you [...]
My Body My Temple | Shift Happens
October 12, 2011 by admin
How has your year been so far? What important decision have you made about how to live your life and where you want to be this time next year? October is the perfect time to look ahead and make a plan. In numerology, this month is also a gateway and preview of what 2012 will [...]
My Body My Temple | All Together NOW!
New Opportunities in Wellness (NOW) 4 Youth is a 100% volunteer-run, registered non-profit organization providing wellness career training for community youth in the GTA. NOW 4 Youth selects Youth Ambassadors and provides full tuition for Yoga and Pilates teacher training course. The Ambassadors also have a personal mentor for the program, along with equipment and [...]
My Body My Temple | Peace is not just for Hippies
September 28, 2011 by admin
As the Director of Yoga without Borders. I work with a group of colleagues to eradicate violence against women and girls permanently in our lifetime. When we first started to address the topic of violence, I felt resistance within myself. Violence was a topic I didn’t want to discuss. I didn’t want to see it [...]
My Body My Temple | Meditate Meditate Meditate
September 21, 2011 by admin
Tanya and I were sharing a cup of tea a few days ago. The conversation naturally turned to Meditation and she shared her thoughts candidly with me. “I can’t meditate, my mind is so busy. I end up thinking about what to eat and what I’m wearing tomorrow. That’s just a waste of time”. [...]
My Body My Temple | Yogic Reasons for Wearing White After Labour Day
September 13, 2011 by admin
This post originally appeared on http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog on September 13, 2011 Somewhere amidst beach bonfires and waterskiing, September crept up on us. As we fall back in love with crisp morning runs and pumpkin spice lattes, ambassador Salimah Kassim-Lakha, shares why she believes we may not want to put away our white wardrobe just yet. A few [...]
My Body My Temple | The Yogi and the Mountain
“The obstacle is the path” Zen proverb I was in Vancouver last week for the Lululemon Ambassador Summit. 150 yoga, cross fit, run and sport experts from across North America converged for 3 days of visioning, goal setting and declarations of success. Inspiring! Part of our week’s adventures was an optional city experience. We had [...]
My Body My Temple | Full Circle
August 17, 2011 by admin
Flashback to August 2005, I make my yearly pilgrimage to Masala Mehndi Masti at the CNE grounds with my friends. I had no idea what was in store for me. The day was sunny and warm. The atmosphere was so uniquely Toronto – people of all ages, colours, sizes enjoying the music and festival atmosphere. [...]
My Body My Temple – We Care with Underwear
August 10, 2011 by admin
We know that you are a concerned citizen. You donate your time and money to worthy causes and care about what happens to people around the world who you will likely never meet. This is the power of Yoga – the practice provides an understanding of our deep connection to ourselves, each other and the [...]
My Body My Temple – 3 Questions + 3 Solutions
August 3, 2011 by admin
My Yoga practice includes a daily 4:20am online meditation with my colleagues – a gang of amazing Yogis dedicated to the eradication of violence against women and girls worldwide and permanently in our life time. A few mornings ago we were meeting with our spiritual Teacher, Yogi Akal to discuss modern day slavery. It’s a [...]
My Body | My Temple – Week 7 – 50 Wishes for My Lifetime
July 20, 2011 by admin
This is week 7 of our adventures in prosperity. We have cleared past limiting beliefs, our relationship with financial abundance, health, love and happiness. There is no limit to who we can be. It’s kind of strange, dear reader, but first you have to know what you want, defined in terms of the end result. [...]
My Body | My Temple – Prosperity Week 6 Abundant Health
July 13, 2011 by admin
Prosperity includes wealth, love, happiness and health. Each cell of the body is reflecting the thoughts that we are thinking. Illness appears when we forget our connection to our Trust, our Divine Source. When we invest in limiting thoughts about lack or our own imperfections, when we act from fear instead of love. Illness appears [...]
My Body My Temple | Turning 40 – Pride and No Prejudice
July 7, 2011 by admin
My Body | My Temple – Prosperity Week 5 Divine Love
June 29, 2011 by admin
I was in Delhi in 2008 with four of my new friends from the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala. We had just graduated from Yoga Teacher Training together and were talking about potential names for the Yoga Enterprise that I was destined to build on my return home. How about I AM? I asked the group. [...]
My Body | My Temple – Prosperity Week 4 Divine Space
June 22, 2011 by admin
First of all – a heartfelt thank you to all 800+ of you who came out to Yogapalooza this past weekend. We had tons of fun – Kundalini Yoga, Power Yoga, Journey Dance and Laughter Yoga. Our sponsors, Utopia Organic Tomatoes sampled amazing Tomato Juice, Physiomed gave away a Yoga Mat and chances to win [...]
My Body | My Temple – 10 Reasons to Love (and Like and Attend) Yogapalooza
June 15, 2011 by admin
Friends, we interrupt the regularly scheduled Yoga for Prosperity to bring you this cute (I think) run down about Yogapalooza and whet your appetite for Movement, Music and Meditation in Gage Park on June 18 and 19. Yogapalooza is Social Entrepreneurship Doing good for the world, doing good for the community and creating wealth is [...]
My Body | My Temple – Prosperity – Week 2 – Expression
June 8, 2011 by admin
Yogi Bhajan says “If you want to learn a thing, read that; if you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.” Teaching about Prosperity has brought me opportunities to break through limitations and explore possibilities. Last week, I held the first online version of Yoga for [...]
