Ideas & Insights

Them Dark February Days

Embrace your light. It's always there, even in the darkness.   If you are like millions of people living in a more northern clime, you...

Full moon January 23, 2016

January 23, 2016 I love that the moon is full today. That the air was still, and a foot of snow blanketed the trees, cars...

Wild Rice Mushroom Spinach soup

Snowzilla is coming to the east coast! Here in Washington, DC where we are historically underprepared (case in point: 1/2" snow and 5 miles became...

Community Yoga before Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust and Hugh Byrne’s meditation classes

Starting this Sunday January 17, Rita will be teaching yoga in 3 locations, Arlington, Virginia, Washington D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland. Each class will be before...

Ocean rise, ocean fall

 I could watch the Pacific ocean for hours…and when the sun sets, no matter the temperature, the wind and the elements, I deeply feel its...

Happy New Year 2016

  From the 49th parallel, where the earth meets the sky and the sky meets the ocean,       May the blessings of nature and all...

Ease ain’t easy. But it sure can reduce your pain.

If you have ever had physical pain, you know that the body never moves toward pain naturally, it moves away from pain.  The body then...

3 Treasures…Energy Management

“I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to...