My little Zen Master of two-and-a-half woke up the other morning and said, “Mummy, no work please.”

I gently informed him that I had to work as the team was waiting for some things from me, but I promised that after 7pm I would be all his. That is how our average day is spent. Well, this was not acceptable to him this time. He whimpered again and said, “please, no work.” Not his usual self.

If you are a parent, I am sure you know how that pulls on the heart strings. How helpless you feel when you know you still have to go on with your work day. I am fortunate as I work from my home office so I do get to spend in-between time with him, but others may have to leave their children for the whole day. (more…)

So the weeks continue to fly by.

My son is now two years old. No more Mommy and Baby yoga together.

I wish I’d had many more opportunities with him in those yoga classes as he developed. I also wish I had more time to attend classes myself. Funny how life’s daily occurrences alter our paths. (more…)

I never thought my yoga practice would come to this.

As the days go by and I am still not able to make it to a yoga class because I’m literally snowed in, I am managing to find innovative ways to keep up some form of my physical yoga practice. (more…)

Aaaah…another flight with my 18-month-old son.

When he was a baby, it used to be an extremely easy way to travel. He would share my seat, gurgling and cooing his way through the flight.

Now, of course, it’s a different story. (more…)

Recently, I attended the Yoga Health Festival with Global Mala in LA and was fortunate enough to be introduced to a new magazine called YogaMom.

In the launch of its six-page preview, YogaMom gave us an essence of the variety of features that future issues will hold. The magazine’s mission is to find ways for mothers to achieve balance in their lives while ensuring a healthy lifestyle, not only for themselves but also for their families. (more…)

In celebration of Yoga Month, Los Angeles recently hosted the Yoga Health Festival with Global Mala as part of the festival’s ten-city tour.

This is our second year of attending the festival, and we found that there were quite a lot of changes from last year. For a start, the venue was changed from the LA convention center to the beautiful campus of Loyola Marymount University. (more…)

From the very first day of my son’s birth, I’ve been giving him a nightly massage after his bath or shower. This has become a precious ritual that we share together, like the Mommy Baby Yoga classes that we used to do when he was a baby. (more…)

It’s been a wonderful journey watching my son grow and develop over these past 18 months.

So many of us take for granted how we’ve grown and evolved from children into our emotional and physical adult selves. As adults, how many times have we just resigned ourselves to being a certain way without thinking that we could initiate changes and enhance our inner and outer selves? (more…)

I recently spent a week in Vancouver, Canada. They call it “Beautiful British Columbia” and so it is. The city seems to stay fresh and clean from all the rain. The amazing pine trees add fresh oxygen to the air. It’s quite awesome to see how the city has built itself up through the years and yet has managed to retain its natural beauty. (more…)

That’s what happened here in Southern California on Tuesday. It’s been quite a while since we experienced an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4. But this was just a friendly reminder from our planet of the universal and planetary shifts that take place on a daily basis.

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