August 2008 | To The Editor
Breathing Room
The July 2008 issue was the best one yet, from the resource-packed “Grow Your Own Way” to Andi McDaniel’s thoughtful and touching “Mom’s Cooking, So Hold the Arugula.” My issue is a mess of dog-eared pages, and I even pulled out the highlighting pen. Oh, and the cover was lovely. Thanks for a great read!
— Sharyl Morris, Seattle
There’s a lot to love about your magazine. I love the way it shows up for free in places where I buy food. I love its content, always interesting, an uncommon balance between calm peaceful refuge and audacious demand for change. I breathe differently, as if just the presence of such a magazine in my fingers means that we can and will become conscious and embrace change. I giggle at your jokes, and squirm at some of the truths. All the images of yoga remind me that my own breathing is as important a starting place as any. All our collectively creating and destroying of the world is as natural as breathing in and breathing out. How can we reconcile bliss and terror? Your magazine is breathtaking and breath-giving. And I plan to keep breathing it.
— Burr Stewart, via email
Imagine Yourself Getting Very Pregnant
Kudos to Jenny Rough on “Bringing Up Baby” (June ’08). She did a great service by mentioning hypnobirthing and fertility yoga but left out Hypno-Fertility, a way to help boost the possibility for conception via hypnosis. As a certified hypnotist, I have worked successfully with many clients using this gentle mind approach originally developed by Lynsi Eastburn. For those who, like Rough, want to stay away from fertility drugs, this approach is relaxing and affirming and, for many, effective.
— Wendy Lapidus-Saltz, Chicago
Wise Morsels
How refreshing to read the story on food sadhana in the July issue with the dosha vignette on the opposing page. As a Ayurvedic practitioner and bodyworker, it is pleasing to see the spread of Ayurvedic wisdom through such articles — especially a first person account. It creates a palpable context for the western mind to digest principles and awareness practices that, though ancient and natural, can appear foreign or “out there.” The path of my passion is rooted in education and outreach — to teach the tenets of Ayurveda in an everyday sort of way. When I work with clients interested in lifestyle and diet change, it is tantamount to taking those positive steps by presenting morsels of these practices in a ready-to-eat form. Amelia’s article was well written and gave an easy snapshot of the place of food in our inner harmony.
— Christopher Sean Rice, Seattle
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