Chocolate for your senses. "When I eat, I eat; when I sleep, I sleep." - Old Zen Saying How often do you finish a meal and suddenly realize that you are not even aware of what each ingredient tasted like? This means that your mind and your senses were not in direct communication. Your mind was probably too busy running errands telling your senses that their impressions were not as important. You probably did not even fully enjoy the meal. It might have served the purpose of satisfying your hunger and that's about it. Contrary to popular belief, absolutely everything we do in life, from...

Yoga & Progressive Relaxation Response Before Transcendence, Savasana & Beyond Have you ever wondered what the difference between action and doing is? In today's world, we are conditioned to think, even believe, that doing is the only way to move forward, achieve something greater than we already have, become something greater than we already are. We tend to be activity driven and confuse doing with action. We have even been infected by the epidemic of multitasking. Modern neuroscience and neuropsychology research shows not only that multitasking is actually harming our brain and our...

"Walk On Water - A Guide To Flat Water Stand Up Paddling" "Walk On Water - A Guide To Flat Water Stand Up Paddling" is the result of almost a decade of professionally teaching stand up paddling to thousands of people around the globe. Are you looking to try stand up paddling for the first time? Have you already paddled a few times and are now looking to purchase your own stand up paddle board? Do you want to safely introduce paddle boarding to your friends and family? Are you a yoga teacher or fitness instructor wanting to teach SUP Yoga or SUP Fitness? Are you a stand up paddle board...

The first time I (Vie) fell off of a paddleboard, I was practicing sun salutations. I knew right then and there thatthis was going to be a lifelong passion. The time was summer of 2006, and the place, Fort Desoto on the Gulf Coast of Florida. We had just finished taking a group out for KaYoga (a term coined by Tim...) to Shell Key, a tiny island nearby. We were using our 2 newly purchased paddleboards (Jimmy Lewis) that we had ordered from North Carolina. At that time, no one in our area was carrying paddleboards. The popular belief at the local surf shops was that paddleboarding was just...