Eating on the Fly

I'm not a nutrition expert but I am by now an airport expert. I literally travel all the time to teach women and men how to live healthy vibrant lives. As a certified yoga and dance teacher and registered massage therapist, I know a thing or two about good health, but eating right in airports is pretty challenging. So here a few things I've learned about how to keep eating in healthy life affirming way even when you are flying.

My 3 tips for not blowing your healthy diet in airports:

1. Make sure to bring a healthy snack for emergency situations. i.e apple, health bar, nuts and seeds. Hudson books always has packaged nuts/seeds/dried fruit mixes as well if you forget.
2. Hold out for the soups or salads. Its easy to be seduced by the pretzel wagon or the burger joint as you make your way between gates during stop overs. Don't go for the first thing you see. Sniff around before you bite.
3. Stop at the sit down and order style of restaurants with a real waiter serving you instead of the counter order style, as much as possible. These full menu restaurants seem to have the most and best options for a healthy meal and they are usually pretty quick. If you are in a hurry check with the host whether you can be served in time. They can often give you take out as well.

So you needn't give up good health when you fly, you just have to know where to hunt down the cleanest options!

The Definition of Dance

What exactly is dance, besides the obvious movement of the body, often in harmony with the rhythms and melodies of music.

Besides all that, dance is the art of loving presence with oneself set in motion. At least that's what dance is for me and what I sincerely hope it is for anyone who has a body and understands the healing powers of moving and grooving it in sensual and creative ways.

The depth of intimacy with myself, a deep reaching and touching inwards is indeed how the healing of dance has so captivated me. There is, in my opinion, nothing so sublime as meeting the soft animal of my being face to face, skin to skin, flesh to undulating flesh. The quintessential truth that is accessed and savored in those moments is beyond any joy and pleasure that I have known. For it goes well beyond physical or emotional fulfillment and affirms a blessed union with spirit that once tasted is impossible to forget.

Dancing,

Leela

I propose a Best Airports for Dancing In survey. Wouldn't it be grand if there was groovy dance music playing in every airport and we could dance our way from gate to gate, celebrating the wealth and abundance that we are so blessed to know.

I'm starting the survey now. Chicago Ohare sets the bar for lots of wide halls to dance through. I'm also impressed with their healthy choice of snacks for replenishing your energy after dancing from concourse G all the way to L. I munched on an apple and cheese, not enough time for a smoothie unfortunately!

Next to survey will be Seatac in a few hours when I land there, dancing of course. Hell, if you have to spend lots of time flying, you might as well just frickin dance it!

1 day post dental surgery and I'm thanking the heavens that I had this done in 2010 instead of decades ago. You see, I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to pain. Yes, even us spiritual women sometimes doubt that the Divine Goddess is out there taking care of us.

Not only that, how many of us get to have our mothers come with us to the dentist all day? Being in Montreal visiting my mother has been really wonderful on many levels. And since she loves to mother me, as all mothers do, it has been a win for us both!

Today we are relaxing post op, staying sheltered from the freezing weather. We played a game of scrabble and now we are cuddling up for a matinee in her bed having fun with all the new channels! I still can't chew so I'm enjoying mum's chicken soup.

Life is good!

Leela

As 2010 leaps off to a roaring start, I am heading off to the dentist to do some heavy duty work on my teeth. I make sure my teeth are in good shape each year before I head to Mexico for the winter so that my time down there can be exactly what it is meant to be; a sensual adventure into pleasure, passion and play. I certainly don't want any tooth aches getting in my way!

So how does a spiritual woman deal with her fear of dental procedures? Well first I reached out to my sisters, the women who are my inner circle, to invite their loving support. Then I posted on Facebook just to hear what others might have to say about dentist visits. Finally, I resource everything I know about mind over matter, meditation, yoga, and breath to heal and calm the body, and finally I acknowledge how blessed I am to be having excellent care from devoted professionals.

The next time I write I'll have 2 less wisdom teeth, but hopefully no less wise!

To our good health,

Leela