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2013 through my camera lens

2013 has been a year full of events! I traveled to South India to study yoga, went to Alaska with my mom, and various places on the eastern sea board. My best friend, Dina, now has a beautiful daughter...

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The Vegan Rice Pudding

This is not just any old vegan rice pudding, this is THE vegan rice pudding. I have this perpetual problem that I make too much rice. It never fails. Maybe I just forget that rice doubles in size, or...

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Feeling Better. #dgkovalam2014

I’ve been in India for six full days. This is my third time visiting Kovalam to study with my ashtanga teacher, David Garrigues. I’ve been waiting for this trip since the summer. This past year was...

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The Chef.

David arranged a to have a meal at a local temple for his students. We were able to watch the Swami perform puja, he said a prayer, and then the temple workers served us a delicious thali meal. All of...

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The Kids.

One of my favorite things about India are the children. They are so cute and have the best smiles. If you look closely at the chalkboard, they are learning G for Gun and W for War. It’s astounding...

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Pongala

The streets of Trivandrum are lined with vendors selling earthen pots in which women will cook their offerings to the divine goddess. I was lucky enough to snap this beautiful image out of a rickshaw...

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How to not get sick in India.

Getting sick is not fun. Getting sick in India is really not fun. It’s unnerving to be in a place where there are more cell phones than toilets and where even the native people are at risk of infection...

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The Elephants.

On Saturday I went to an Elephant Rehabilitation Center outside of Trivandrum. Elephants are no doubt the most beautiful most amazing creatures on earth. I could have spent all day there with them,...

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The eyes are the window to the soul. (photo)

Indian woman at Attukal Pongala 2014.  

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Where did our senses go?

A few days ago I received a consultation by an Ayurvedic doctor, or as the locals say a jungle physician. Nothing was necessarily wrong with me, I was just curious to see what he had to say about me....

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