by Sonja Semyonova | Oct 6, 2021 | Confessionals, Consistency, Journal, Self-love, The Nest
Consistency is about showing up as much as it is about not showing up. For four years, I worked for and studied under a teacher of Ayurveda and yoga who was known to be a strict disciplinarian. Her students reported daily at 5:00 a.m. for nearly three hours of...
by Sonja Semyonova | Sep 29, 2021 | Journal, Nourish Ayurvedic (un)Recipes, nourishment, The Nest
My grandmother instilled in me a love of homemade pie crust. I remember her apron — blue and white checked like Dorothy’s dress in The Wizard of Oz — swinging to the rhythm of her rolling pin as she pressed out the crusts that she would fill with her rich,...
by Sonja Semyonova | Sep 28, 2021 | Intuitive Ayurveda, Journal, nourishment, Wisdom Bites
We are terribly confused about food. A five-second Google search offers 6,000 ways to deepen my confusion — and that’s before I go back in time. From the rise of processed food after World War II to the current obsessions with and aversions to fat, carbs, and...
by Sonja Semyonova | Sep 22, 2021 | Journal, nourishment, The Nest
(audio version below) Though I was not raised under any religion, I began praying at a very young age. I would lie in bed and talk to my ceiling before I went to sleep. It was decorated with small glow-in-the-dark stars, so it had the effect of looking up into the...
by Sonja Semyonova | Sep 16, 2021 | Journal, nourishment, The Nest
September’s Awake in The Nest recording is live! (Available to all Nest members at the Silver level and higher.) This month we are paying homage to our original source of nourishment — our mothers — by writing them love letters. You may not ever send...
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