In the spring of 2018 my mom and I signed up for a women’s retreat in the Pocono Mountains called Rise Gatherings. We spent the weekend with women ages 15 – 75 from all over the country. The days were filled with workshops that challenged me to paint my wildest dreams, practice Buti Yoga, and […]
When I first started the Forest Bathing Club in 2015, I had to explain to people what forest bathing was and why they needed it. Flash forward a few years to today and now forest bathing, the evidence-based Japanese practice of connecting to nature as a way to destress and heal, has become so popular […]
When my first child was just a few hours old, my then 7 year old niece was among the first visitors to arrive. When she entered my hospital room her dad leaned down and said “she’s been coughing today, I think she’s pretending to have a cold, but I warned her that whether she can hold […]
One woman’s quest to combat her genetics by adopting a plant-based diet and (gently but passionately) encouraging others to do the same. Having already lost her dad in 2007 to lung cancer, when her mom was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in 2012, Lauren Gladstone needed to do something. She went in search of information […]
Louise Clarke regularly shares this important message with her listeners on her podcast, “Parenting in the Think of It.” She believes that developing an awareness for what causes us the most mental and physical chaos is so very important (especially for busy moms) and shares with you here how you can begin to cure the […]
What if this year, you gave up perfection and stepped into more joy? What would it look like to give yourself the gift of space and of time? What if instead of burdens and ‘shoulds’ you stepped into possibilities and ‘coulds’? For me this shift has been the most transformative realization in my life. I […]
It’s probably the oldest cliché in the book that Thanksgiving through New Years is the hardest time for people. For some, spending time with family is a huge challenge—it can be alienating and even depressing. But my family is amazing, and I am proud to be a Mehta. We survived persecution at the hands of […]
Rachel here, co-creator of Rise. I’m jumping on the blog because I have to express my incredible passion for Little Seed Farm products. I am not a product person, I repeat, I do not go crazy purchasing the promises for my skin, hair and the rest. I am minimal in this department and tend to […]
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate […]
Original post from Yoga Journal can be found here. Sure, a week-long yoga retreat is what you really want. But if you think you won’t get a lot out of a one-day getaway, think again. As a mom of three and full-time midwife, I feel like I am constantly treading water—barely able to keep my […]