Author Archives: roadside yogi

I’m one that likes to eat.  As much as I’d like to get closer to a sattvic or a truly Ayurvedic diet, the reality of that happening is slim to none (and if I’m being honest, I do not want to be on a sattvic diet.  The last attempt at that was not pretty; physicallyContinue reading “new segment, fun facts”

It’s a tricky thing isn’t it.  Have too hope much and your delusional, too little and you’re a cynic.  What’s the balance? What’s the balance during a Pandemic? The pendulum is ever moving (as it always is in life), but now it seems to be able to swing so far into the closet of ourContinue reading “silver lining: composition unknown”

I have found yet another thing I am not good at in this world: panic grocery shopping. Shopping for the apocalypse. How do you do that?! I don’t know what I’m going to want (?) to make for my last real meal before it’s powdered food. I don’t know what to make with this canContinue reading “ready. set. panic grocery shop.”

It’s like your home though -ALLISON The things you forget you love. And remembering that love hurts Remembering I love the subway.  The zoning out. Feeling that I have nothing to worry about for these 10 to 15 minutes but disappearing into this too bright seat.  Listen to my music. Read my book. People watch.Continue reading “the subway: a love letter”

An endless topic; quite literally.  Not this life, but your last one… not that life, but the next life.  And the energy movement continues; through them all. It’s quite beautiful and the wise ones say it is liberating.  Apparently, it is freeing to know your life’s momentum is following the karmic energy of actions past.Continue reading “karma, step one”

I found Siva on this trip.  I mean, he wasn’t hiding. But he loomed over me for the weeks I was sequestered in self-imposed austerity in an ashram.  He sat with me in morning and evening meditations. He gifted me with a calmness; an introspection that warms me.  He came after what I thought wasContinue reading “siva”

This may feel a little phoney, but it’s similar to building a muscle that you haven’t used much before… PEMA CHODRON I’ve lived my adult life in noise.  Most of us have, but living in Manhattan… the energy pulsing is louder in sound and feeling than many other locations. And here in India, the noiseContinue reading “noise”

Disclaimer: So internet isn’t really a thing here at the Ashram, so needed to publish the last 11 days as though it were one.

I am uncomfortable.  I have been uncomfortable since I arrived in India.  Everything is foreign. Very foreign. I cannot walk across the street without someone trying to sell me something or ask where I am from.  I wear clothes that help me to assimilate, but I are not suited for my dry-loving western skin. IContinue reading “condensation”

Double your pleasure, double your fun Doublemint Gum There is something to be said for having a buddy. A ride or die. There’s someone to share the explosive moments with; watch them richocette off their pupils and become larger. A pal to mope alongside you in matching misery sweatpants when life’s hitting too many speedContinue reading “power in pairs”