Recent Blog Posts

It's March and while you had good intentions with diet and exercise at the beginning of this year, now is the time when things start to slip. A missed workout here, a few too many Happy Hour drinks there and no sooner, old habits start to creep back in. Whenever I give a talk or Q&A, I'm often asked about how to stay consistent with diet and exercise. If the goals you set are starting to slip … [Read more...]

I'm not sure about where you live, but in New York City, it has been raining for a week straight. While we've gotten some relief from freezing cold temperatures, the dark, damp and dreary days are enough to put anyone in a funk and crawling out isn't easy. Feeling low-energy, lethargy and general sadness -- collectively known as "the winter blues" -- is normal this time of year when days are … [Read more...]

Barre classes are some of the most popular in boutique fitness right now so it's no surprise that when I tell someone I'm a Certified Bar Method Instructor, (currently at The Bar Method Noho in NYC), I immediately get lots of questions and curiosity from anyone who has never tried a barre class before. I find plenty of people are interested, but may feel intimidated. So I put together a … [Read more...]

One of my long-time readers recently requested a blog post on how to get everything done in a day. My first thought was that I'm not qualified to write about how to get everything done in a day because I rarely ever do and then I decided that's exactly what makes me qualified to write a post on the topic!  Admittedly, I used to stress over my to-do lists making them long and detailed. I … [Read more...]

Five years ago, in January 2013, I published an article on Mindbodygreen entitled Why I Don't Juice Cleanse and the next day woke up to a barrage of comments - some readers agreed but most vehemently disagreed- and a few were really unkind (in case you're wondering, the comments are no longer there as the website more recently turned off comments on all articles). It was a hard truth to swallow … [Read more...]

  I'm someone who spends most of my days in Lycra, so managing my sweat is necessary. When I'm not teaching, I'm taking a barre class or running from the studio to meetings so I need something that will keep me dry. That sounds easy enough, but lately, I've recommitted to using natural products because we all know that what goes on your skin also goes in. Finding natural deodorants that work … [Read more...]

In my adult lifetime, I have likely chopped hundreds of pounds of vegetables (rough estimate). Somewhere along the way, I realized how much waste my vegetable scraps - seeds, skins, stems and other unusable parts of the vegetable - produced. There have been times when it seems, I've had trashcans-full of food scraps. And here's where it gets weird- I feel guilty knowing I could be putting these … [Read more...]

Email, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. That's basically the progression of how I go about checking my online and social media accounts every morning upon waking. Yours might be similar. I'm acutely aware of how much I rely on social media so I'm constantly trying to use social media mindfully.   Until I was in my late 20's, social media wasn't as prevalent as it is now. The … [Read more...]