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Vaccines, Flu-Shots + Your Choice
***The Greater Good Documentary on Vaccines *** will be screening Saturday, May 4th 6:30pm Teton County Library, Jackson WY. Meet Leslie live for the Q+A I get asked the question: “What about vaccines?” about once a week. My friend Chris Pilaro, one of the trilogy of “ producers of the you-need-to-watch-this-if-you-breathe documentary called, “The Greater Good.” […]
Leslie Manookian writer producer of The Greater Good on vaccines
I get asked the question: “What about vaccines?” about once a week. My friend Chris Pilaro, one of the trilogy of producers of the you-need-to-watch-this-if-you-breathe documentary called, “The Greater Good.” When I’d visit Hailey, Idaho to hang out with Chris’s wife, Phoebe, I’d ask Chris how what he was learning. He’d tell me it was […]
Plant-Based Connection Economy – 20 Tips
Happy Earth Day to all Earthlings. I first started celebrating Earth Day as a teen – organizing a school-wide event with the predecessor of Whole Foods- a natural grocery store in Massachusetts named Bread & Circus. They worked with SCAT, an eco-awareness group I co-started with my best friend, Jessie Meaney. Jessie’s mom came up with the acronym SCAT for Students […]
Finding a still quiet place with holistic physician and mindfulness coach Dr. Amy Saltzman
Dr. Amy Saltzman is a holistic physician, mindfulness coach, scientist, wife, mother, devoted student of transformation, long-time athlete, and occasional poet. Her passion is supporting people of all ages in enhancing their well being, and discovering the Still Quiet Place within. She is recognized by her peers as a visionary and pioneer in the fields […]
Detox to create your “new normal”
Normal is relative. Normal is cultural. Normal is habitual. Normal is your worldview. Your beliefs. Your reality. Normal is relative… and you can redefine normal. When you shift- normal shifts with you. A new normal is established. The new normal has it’s own biochemistry. It’s own cravings. It’s own aversions. The new normal becomes your […]
Can my Family Detox?
Here is the deal – we don’t realize how much our kids symptoms- physical, emotional and mental – are correlated with their diet. We also don’t realize how we can change our cravings. When we don’t realize these connections – our kids don’t learn to identify them for themselves. The stakes are high.
Living Ayurveda Course – is it right for me?
Get 1 Hour Podcast in iTunes Cate talks for an hour with potential Living Ayurveda Course members who are interested in the Sept. 2013-2014 Living Ayurveda Course. 200 yoga teachers and students from around the world are going to: Take better care of their families. Take better care of their yoga students. And take their […]
Ode to my Grandmother: Investing in An Evolutionary Strategy for Your Aging
There is a humility to our bodies aging that bewilders me. How can I make the best of this precious vehicle – this holy abode – for up to 60 more years?
This is the question. I wrote a blog post naming some of the bigger issues and opportunities I see with aging. My sense is it comes down to how we invest. Invest our awareness, which is our time. Invest our dollars in that which inspires us to take up better ways of being in a body. Invest in communities to support our growth, and how we grow our families, and our students families.
Essential Lessons from Ayurveda every yoga student and teacher should know
Download this 1 hour podcast in Itunes. It’s much better than my text here. You’ll love it. (direct audio download link) Common Set-backs in Learning Ayurveda Before we dive into the Essential Lessons from Ayurveda, we need to look at what I’ve learned along the way. I was taught Ayurveda at the California College of […]