As some of you may know, this fall I am doing a yoga teacher training program at Laughing Lotus yoga studio in San Francisco. It's been a great experience so far, challenging and intense, but I've been learning so much about yoga. Less than half the class is directly about the physical poses or asanas that we typically think of as yoga here in ( Read more... )

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I'm not wearing my glasses or contacts, and I can see with 20/15 vision. That's right, I got Lasik surgery ( Read more... )

Last night I saw Sean Johnson Kirtan at Laughing Lotus, my home yoga studio. I was completely swept away. Sean has a very powerful voice, and he really puts his heart and soul into singing. It was my first time seeing him with his current band, Gwendolyn on drums and Alvin on bass. It was a New Orleans style kirtan, with lots of energy and funky, ( Read more... )

I just signed up for a biweekly contribution of $14 to normdollar.com. The idea is to give a dollar a day to Senator Al Franken's campaign until Norm Coleman concedes, thus flipping the incentive for the Republicans to concede sooner rather than later. This totally gave me a game-theory-gasm.

To clarify my previous post, I really lost myself in a deep way over the past two years after moving out to Stanford. The identity that was Henri was absorbed into the identity of Henri+Ashley. After we split up, I no longer knew who I was. Just as we can never step into the same river twice, we can never go backwards to a previous version of ( Read more... )

Happy Easter everyone! Or as folks in San Francisco are calling it, Resurrection Day. Beyond simply remembering and honoring the story of the Resurrection of Christ, today can be taken as an opportunity to reflect on the resurrection of our selves ( Read more... )

Wow! The last couple of weeks have been packed, and I've been so busy I haven't had time to post about what I've been doing. So, now I will summarize ( Read more... )

Wow! What a weekend! Friday night I went to 1015 to see Beats Antique and Tipper. It was such an awesome show. This was break beat, so the music was really different from the usual house music. House music is fun and does what it is supposed to do, which is to get you energized and moving, but it also tends to be pretty simple. BA and Tipper play ( Read more... )

I have a new userpic! Actually, I created this for my desktop. I started with a free OM pic that I downloaded from wikimedia commons, and then photoshopped it to make it look cooler.