Bonjour. Welcome to the 171th edition of Tranquility du Jour: A Guide to Bringing Tranquility to your Every Day. Today’s show features happenings and musings on "mindfulness" with Gina Sager.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next Tranquilology Teleclass "Bloom into Spring" on Monday, March 22 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from winter's teleclass.
Featured Tranquilista: Gina L. Sager, MD, RYT is a retired board-certified general surgeon, named one of Baltimore’s Top Docs in October 2000. She permanently left the practice of traditional Western medicine in May 2002 to explore her long time interest in holistic healing. She has studied and practiced Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition, studied the ancient wisdom traditions including Traditional Chinese wisdom and Five Element Theory at Tai Sophia Institute, and completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training in Integrative Yoga Therapy at yama studio in Baltimore in 2005. She has completed several professional training courses with Jon Kabat Zinn and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society.She has used the wisdom of Ayurveda for personal healing since 2000 and recently completed a 60 hour Ayurvedic Nutrition training course with internationally known teacher and author, Amadea Morningstar. Savoring Each Moment is her new Ayurvedic workshop series, to be offered in 2010 to welcome each season and cultivate harmony within and without.She leads bi-annual mindfulness retreats at Casa del Sol in Abiquiu, New Mexico, incorporating mindful Ayurvedic cooking into these retreats.Gina has taught Mindfulness classes, yoga and yoga nidra in Baltimore and Harford Counties since 2004. She teaches meditation and Yoga Nidra to yoga teachers in training at Golden Heart Yoga in Annapolis Maryland and Tranquil Space Yoga in Washington DC. She also teaches weekly at HopeWell Cancer Support in Brooklandville, MD, offering her classes to those living with cancer as well as their families and friends.In the growing season, April through October, she works at weekend Farmer’s Markets with Calvert’s Gift Farm, an organic farm in Sparks, Maryland, to encourage the use of seasonal, local, organic produce for health and well-being. In Ayurveda, it is said that the best physician is one who teaches patients to care for themselves. In this spirit, Gina believes that her path is to share what she has learned on her transformative journey by offering others the opportunity to reconnect with their own deepest nature, and learn to care for themselves using these ancient, holistic practices.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by March 21 (the spring equinox) will receive a complimentary mentoring session. Create away + do share!
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Skylines by karmacoda. You can learn more about the fabulous Heather Pierce and more at karmacoda.com.
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Bonjour. Welcome to the 170th edition of Tranquility du Jour: A Guide to Bringing Tranquility to your Every Day. Today’s show features happenings and musings on "working for good" with Jeff Klein.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next Tranquilology Teleclass "Bloom into Spring" on Monday, March 22 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from winter's teleclass.
As CEO of Cause Alliance Marketing, Jeff Klein designs and facilitates collaborative cause-related marketing programs. He currently serves as President of the Conscious Capitalism Alliance—a nonprofit dedicated to “liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good” co-founded by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market.
Jeff was one of the visionaries and driving forces behind Private Music, the career of Yanni, Spinning, and Seeds of Change, and has consulted for the Esalen Institute, the National Geographic Society, GlobalGiving, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, among others. Jeff wrote his new book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living, to support conscious entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, leaders, and change agents at work. He resides in San Rafael, Calif.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by March 21 (the spring equinox) will receive a complimentary mentoring session. Create away + do share!
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Shine by Lovespirals.
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Bonjour. Welcome to the 169th edition of Tranquility du Jour: A Guide to Bringing Tranquility to your Every Day. Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on "the way of the happy woman" with Sara Avant Stover.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next Tranquilology Teleclass "Bloom into Spring" on Monday, March 22 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from winter's teleclass.
Featured Tranquilista: Sara Avant Stover, founder of The Way of the Happy Woman™, helps modern women reconcile their femininity with their worldly success to retrieve true and lasting personal happiness—beyond their body size, relationships, and careers --by connecting with their inner radiance through yoga, meditation, and balanced living. Sara took her first yoga class at age 18 and knew immediately that she would someday devote her life to teaching. By her early 20’s, yoga was such a big part of Sara’s life, that she moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand where she lived for 9 years and served as one of the pioneer yoga teachers in that part of the word. To date, Sara has taught some 3,000 student in over a dozen different countries. She is a prolific writer whose articles have been featured in half a dozen magazines including Yoga Journal, Yogi Time Business, Pilates Style, The Huffington Post, Natural Solutions, and Fit Yoga. Sara is now based in Boulder, Colorado. Visit her website thewayofthehappywoman.com. For a free audio download from Sara on how to live in your core feminine essence, visit: thewayofthehappywoman.com/feminine-essence-audio. Savvy Sources: Free Yoga for PMS CD: http://www.YogaforPMS.com Virtual Women's Circle: http://www.HappyWomanCircle.com Women's Yoga Home Study Program: http://www.WomensYogaKit.com Women's Yoga Teacher Training: http://www.WomensYogaTeacherTraining.com Twitter: @wayofhappywoman
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by March 21 (the spring equinox) will receive a complimentary mentoring session. Create away + do share!
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Wonder by karmacoda. You can learn more about the fabulous Heather Pierce and more at karmacoda.com.
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Bonjour. Welcome to the 168th edition of Tranquility du Jour: A Guide to Bringing Tranquility to your Every Day. Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on "Being a Green Goddess" with Sophie Uliano.
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Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next Tranquilology Teleclass "New Year, New You" on Monday, January 4 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Workshops + Retreats: Consider the Living Your Yoga Series starting January 7 in DC or New Year's Celebration on January 9 in DC, Online Creativity Circle on January 19, Hip Tranquil Chick Retreat March 26-28 in NY, a Virtual Art Retreat with Wish Studio's Creative Cast April 30-May 2, a week long Yoga Lifestyle Retreat in lush Costa Rica May 29-June 5, and a Tranquilista Retreat at Kripalu July 5-9. Featured Tranquilista: Sophie Uliano is a passionate environmentalist and who has developed an earth-friendly lifestyle that appeals to women who don’t want to compromise their glamour and style. She is the New York Times Best Selling author of Gorgeously Green, The Gorgeously Green Diet, and the soon to be released Do It Gorgeously.
Sophie’s upbeat and practical approach guides thousands of style-conscious women through the simple steps that they can take to become more aware of their impact on the earth. She shows women how to update their beauty regimen, create an eco-friendly home, adopt a healthier diet and fitness routine, indulge in guilt-free shopping, and more.
On Earth Day 2008, Sophie and friend Julia Roberts appeared Oprah’s Earth Day Show, launching the book as well as showing millions of households everything from composting to organic food to beauty products as well as having a few laughs with worms. She has “greened” THE VIEW with an eco fashion show, as well as being a guest on Good Morning America, the CBS EARLY SHOW, ACCESS HOLLYWOOD, and has been featured on The Discovery Channel’s “The Green," “Supper Club," "the G WORD," and "Hollywood Green”.
Within gorgeouslygreen.com Sophie has created the Gorgeously Green Girls Club which is fast becoming on online and in –home social network. She has also developed a “Ladies Lunch and Learn” speaker series that incorporates the 8 steps into a personal and casual experience.
Sophie lives in Los Angeles with her husband Joseph and her 8-year old daughter Lola. Joseph is an executive producer and media consultant and also co-owner of the Hollywood hotspot and eatery IL SOLE on Sunset Blvd. Picked as the "Oscars Hot Spot" by Good Morning America.
Signature Eco-Style: Fall fashion is luxe. Featured "Look of the Podcast" are the TranquiliT essentials. TranquiliT essentials are the backbone of your wardrobe. These seven staples are perfect for all your eco-style design needs. Mix and match for optimal versatiliT and creativiT. Travel with three pieces and create multiple outfits. Add ballet flats or flip flops for a casual chic look. Don kitten heels or stilettos for an evening out. Dress up with a long strand of pearls. Dress down with a ponytail and headband. Wear for yoga, lounging, black tie, and beyond. Ensure utmost eco-comfort with these seven TranquiliT essentials.
Watch TranquiliT's video featuring oodles of ways to wear. Join TranquiliT's mailing list to learn about sales and new designs. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate. Help spread tranquility and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by December 21 (the winter solstice) will receive a complimentary mentoring session plus my newest Tranquility-to-Go yoga CD. Create away + do share!
Omwork: Explore ways to go green this holiday season: make your own gifts, plant trees to offset your carbon emissions, give gifts in reusable tote bags, get a live tree that you can replant.
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Make Like Mine by karmacoda. You can learn more about the fabulous Heather Pierce and more at karmacoda.com.
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Bonjour. Welcome to the 167th edition of Tranquility du Jour: A Guide to Bringing Tranquility to your Every Day. Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on "Leaving your Day Job" with Laura Zam.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next Tranquilology Teleclass "New Year, New You" on Monday, January 4 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Workshops + Retreats: Consider the New Year's Celebration on January 9 in DC, Online Creativity Circle in January, Hip Tranquil Chick Retreat March 26-28 in NY, a week long Yoga Lifestyle Retreat in lush Costa Rica May 29-June 5, and a Tranquilista Retreat at Kripalu July 5-9. All the scoop is on my workshops page. Featured Tranquilista: Laura Zam is a writer, performer, filmmaker, and educator. She has created five one-person shows, which she has presented Off-Broadway, internationally, and across the US, including Woolly Mammoth, Theater J, The Kennedy Center, and The National Theatre. Through her award-winning play Collaterally Damaged, Laura raises money for genocide survivors throughout the world. This project is currently being made into a film. Laura's forthcoming book Sex and the Messed Up Girl is based on one of her one-person plays. Laura teaches workshops in solo performance, which she adapts for post-war populations who are rebuilding their lives. Laura has also begun teaching artists how to make a living by finding their unique contribution. This work is informed by her twenty-year journey studying the financial struggles of creative people.
Signature Eco-Style: Fall fashion is luxe. Featured "Look of the Podcast" is the blouson jumpsuit. Watch TranquiliT's video featuring oodles of ways to wear. Join TranquiliT's mailing list to learn about sales and new designs. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate. Help spread tranquility and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by December 21 (the winter solstice) will receive a complimentary mentoring session plus my newest Tranquility-to-Go yoga CD. Create away + do share!
Omwork: Explore ways to think outside the box and design your creative dreams.
Bonjour. Welcome to the 166th edition of Tranquility du Jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on do-gooding + having fun with Britt Bravo.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "New Year, New You" on Monday, January 4 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Workshops + Retreats: Consider the New Year's Gala on January 9 in DC, online creativity circle in January, Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28, a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 29-June 5, and Kripalu July 5-9. All the scoop is on my workshops page. Featured Tranquilista:
Britt Bravo is a social web consultant and career coach who helps artists, entrepreneurs and nonprofits realize their big visions and be a powerful force for good. She writes for five blogs: Have Fun Do Good, BlogHer, The Extraordinaries, WE tv’s WE Volunteer blog, and the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog. She also produces the Big Vision Podcast and the Arts and Healing Podcast, and hosts Echoing Green’s podcast, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact. Bravo is a frequent speaker and trainer who has presented at events such as the Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp, Bioneers Conference, Stanford Women’s Leadership Conference, San Francisco Writers Conference, Global Engagement Summit, and the BlogHer Conference. Her personal blog, Have Fun * Do Good, is one of the top twenty blogs on the List of Change, and her Twitter feed is on Social Edge’s list of Top 100 Tweeps to Follow. In 2007, her local paper, the East Bay Express, named her the Best Podcaster/Blogger Most Dedicated to Social Change.
You can find out more about her work at www.brittbravo.com, connect with her on Twitter at @bbravo and on Facebook at facebook.com/britt.bravo.
Savvy Sources: Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth by Ben Rigby CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World by Tom Watson Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media by Beth Kanter
NetSquared, An Initiative of TechSoup: Remixing the Web for Social Change
Signature Eco-Style: Fall fashion is luxe. Featured "Look of the Podcast" is the fabulous flare skirt pant. Watch TranquiliT's video featuring oodles of ways to wear. Join TranquiliT's mailing list to learn about sales and new designs. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate. Help spread tranquility and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by December 21 (the winter solstice) will receive a complimentary mentoring session plus my newest Tranquility-to-Go yoga CD. Create away + do share!
Omwork: Explore ways to do good + have fun!
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Ou Est Ma Tete? by Pink Martini from promonet. You can learn more about them at pinkmartini.com.
You don't need an iPod to listen to the podcast! Click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes.
Bonjour. Welcome to the 165th edition of Tranquility du Jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on yoga with Deborah Bernstein.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "New Year, New You" on Monday, January 4 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi in Montreal at the lovely Centre de Luna November 7 + 8. Consider the New Year's Gala on January 9 in DC, online creativity circle in January, Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28, a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 29-June 5, and Kripalu July 5-9. All the scoop is on my soon-to-be updated workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista:
Deborah is a yoga instructor, founder of Florian’s Causes and the founder of Roslindale Yoga Studio, in Boston, MA. She now owns and runs the Florian Yoga Retreats on St. John, USVI and leads yoga retreats with her fiance Scott. Deborah is the author of Yoga in America andWhat is Yoga? After 15 years of working as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and later running an international corporate finance department for Iron Mountain, she left the corporate world to teach yoga. Deborah has long been involved with community service – while obtaining her MBA from Boston College, she ran a tutor mentor program for high risk teens from Boston’s inner city and later while working at PwC, Deborah began teaching yoga to middle school students from the Boston Public Schools. Deborah’s commitment to supporting the community continues with her work at the Florian Villa on St. John, providing free retreats at the villa to wounded veterans and families of fallen firefighters. Throughout the year, Deborah leads yoga retreats at the villa; her yoga teaching style is an eclectic mix of vinyasa and mindfulness practice, inspired by viniyoga and Kundalini.
Signature Eco-Style: Fall fashion is luxe. Featured "Look of the Podcast" is 3/4 sleeve wrap dress. Lovely with tights, tall boots, and a heavy scarf. Watch TranquiliT's video featuring oodles of ways to wear. Join TranquiliT's mailing list to learn about sales and new designs. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate. Help spread tranquility and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by December 21 (the winter solstice) will receive a complimentary mentoring session plus my newest Tranquility-to-Go yoga CD. Create away + do share!
Omwork: Check out 30-day yoga journey. What is yoga to you?
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Pick up the Phone by Dragonette from promonet. You can learn more about them at dragonette.com.
You don't need an iPod to listen to the podcast! Click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes.
Bonjour. Welcome to the 164th edition of Tranquility du Jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Today’s show menu features happenings and balancing bebe + 3 businesses with Susan Turnock.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "New Year, New You" on Monday, January 4 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Workshops + Retreats: Tranquil Space 10-year birthday bash on October 30. Join moi in Montreal at the lovely Centre de Luna November 7 + 8. Consider the 3rd annual New Year's Gala on January 9, 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28, and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 29-June 5. All the scoop is on my workshops page. Featured Tranquilista:
Susan Arak Turnock started her first business, What Fun! Inc, making the flagship Soap Rolls on her kitchen stove. Ten years later, almost half a million bath products have been produced, and sold in 1500 stores and on QVC. She paired up with her sister for her latest venture, Gifts for the Good Life, where they create artfully branded custom goods for corporate and social events and gifting programs.
Signature Eco-Style: Fall fashion is fabulous. Featured "Look of the Podcast" is beloved organic bamboo shawl. Watch TranquiliT's video featuring oodles of ways to wear. Join TranquiliT's mailing list to learn about sales, new designs, and more. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate. Help spread tranquility and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by December 21 (the winter solstice) will receive a complimentary mentoring session plus my newest Tranquility-to-Go yoga CD. Create away + do share!
Omwork: Check out one of Susan's Savvy Sources. Play. Explore. Seek balance. Push your limits.
Bonjour. Welcome to the 163rd edition of Tranquility du Jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Today’s show menu features happenings and do-gooding with Rebecca Kousky.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "New Year, New You" on Monday, January 4 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Workshops + Retreats: Tranquil Space 10-year birthday bash on October 30. Join moi in Montreal at the lovely Centre de Luna November 7 + 8. Consider the 3rd annual New Year's Gala on January 9, 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28, and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 29-June 5. All the scoop is on my workshops page. Featured Tranquilista:
Rebecca Kousky is the founder and executive director of Nest. Nest is a St. Louis-based nonprofit that provides microfinance loans to women in developing countries to begin or maintain art or craft-based businesses. Nest funds these loans by partnering with artists and designers from around the world who create exclusive, one-of-a-kind merchandise available for sale on the Nest website and at selected boutiques across the country. These successful artists also act as mentors to loan recipients, thereby establishing a community of artists helping artists the world over.
Rebecca holds a BA from Wake Forest University in North Carolina and a MSW from Washington University. Having built an international nonprofit from conception to reality, she has the passion, experience and expertise to be both a mentor and an inspiration for students young and old. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Look for Rebecca as a featured "model muse" in my new book Tranquilista
Signature Eco-Style: Fall fashion is fabulous. Featured "Look of the Podcast" is beloved organic bamboo shawl. Watch TranquiliT's video featuring oodles of ways to wear. Join TranquiliT's mailing list to learn about sales, new designs, and more. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate. Help spread tranquility and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by December 21 (the winter solstice) will receive a complimentary mentoring session plus my newest Tranquility-to-Go yoga CD. Create away + do share!
Bonjour. Welcome to the 162nd edition of Tranquility du Jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Today’s show menu features happenings and creative exploration with Sabrina Ward Harrison.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "New Year, New You" on Monday, January 4 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Tranquility Tip: How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Reflect on what this new fall season means to you. What do you want to see unfold?
Workshops + Retreats: Annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18 and Tranquil Space 10-year birthday bash on October 30. Consider the 3rd annual New Year's Gala on January 9, 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28, and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 29-June 5. All the scoop is on my workshops page. Featured Tranquilista:
Creative pioneer, Sabrina Ward Harrison has been sharing her life through a vivid interplay of artwork, photography, writing and video.Sabrina’s authentic approach to life & art has encouraged people all over the world to come from a place of honest expression and what Sabrina likes to call…True Living.
Two years ago I ended up in a field of grass hip high.This is where I began to make the body work that has come to be called The True Living Project. The entire True Living Project consists of 68 site~specific lifetime collaborative projects. She has recently returned to New York after 2 years spent along the Central California coast living in a historic One Room School house taking manya bath outside. she left with 23 cents.
hold strong to, that, “we must create what we most need to find.”
‘As we have barreled deeper and deeper into a technological / result driven 21st century now more than ever I do believe we need to be bought home to the presence of our living. to allow the restful validation of your own tender true humanity, may this work be a living ode to our living. I am striving to create both a visual and emotional unfolding through the textural interchange of photography, sound, collage, film and found objects. As you observe, as you listen may you rest into that place where this moment, and your deepest longing exist.’
Signature Style: Fall fashion has arrived. Featured "Look of the Podcast" is beloved organic bamboo palazzo pants and 2-in-1 flare top. Watch TranquiliT's last video featuring oodles of ways to wear. Join TranquiliT's exclusive mailing list to get the skinny. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate. Help spread tranquility and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by December 21 (the winter solstice) will receive a complimentary CD of my newest Tranquility-to-Go class. Create away + do share!
Omwork: Savor solo time. Indulge in an artist date. Read for pleasure. Get a mani.
Bonjour. Welcome to the 161st edition of Tranquility du Jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Today’s show menu features happenings and creative exploration with Lisa Sonora Beam.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "Fall Festivity" on September 21 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Tranquility Tip: Set aside play time to explore what you want to create this next season. Journal about it. Collage it. Paint it. Write a song about it. Bake an expression of it (cupcakes welcome). Dress the part. Get clear on what you want to see unfold.
Workshops + Retreats: Online creativity circle starts this week! Annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18 and 10-year birthday bash on October 30. In 2010, consider the 3rd annual New Year's Gala, 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28, and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 22-29. All the scoop is on my workshops page. Featured Tranquilista: Lisa Sonora Beam doesn’t go for the whole “starving artist” thing. She’s worked for decades on her rebuttal: She thrives as a mixed-media artist, writer, and founder of Digital Hive EcoLogical Design, a San Francisco–based communications firm that works with green businesses. She earned her MBA in Sustainable Enterprise, whose business theories form the strategic backbone of this book.
Lisa has learned that business savvy in an artist is rare: most creative people shy away from the strategic skills necessary to make a living doing what they love. So after yet another artist friend responded to Lisa’s business insights with, “I never thought about that,” she decided to help make sure they did.
Over the course of 20 years teaching workshops, Lisa has honed her techniques for transforming passion into livelihood. She’s taught at leading learning centers like Esalen Institute and Hollyhock, and has been featured in Entrepreneur and Business Week. She develops courses in Green & Social Marketing and has taught at Dominican University's Green MBA. In the studio, she creates mixed-media paintings, artist books, assemblage structures, and continues to run Digital Hive.
With The Creative Entrepreneur, Lisa has finally put passion to paper to help artistic types develop and harness their business savvy. The Creative Entrepreneur is the culmination of an eclectic life of business and art, strategic planning and creative calling. It’s Lisa preaching what she’s practiced: that it’s possible and practical to make a living doing what you love.
A thriving San Francisco Bay Area transplant from Chicago, Lisa lives and works out of a former warehouse that is in various stages of green renovation, where she fantasizes about the perfect organizer for all her art supplies and of sleeping in a Moroccan tent on her (permit pending) living roof.
Signature Style: Featured "Look of the Podcast" is a selection of TranquiliT's beloved organic bamboo sale items. Watch TranquiliT's last video featuring oodles of ways to wear. Check out our sneak peek of fall. Join TranquiliT's exclusive mailing list to get the skinny. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate. Help spread the word and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by September 21 (the fall equinox) will receive a complimentary CD of my newest Tranquility-to-Go class plus a complimentary mentoring session via phone or in person (if you're local). Create away + do share!
Welcome to the 160th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Recorded from the Pink Palace in Washington, DC.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on unfolding your life vision with Jennifer Lee
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "Fall Festivity" on September 21 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Tranquility Tip: Gather your magazines. Clip images and phrases that make you smile. Glue onto a file folder. Tie a ribbon around the folder. Carry inside your planner pad. Store notes, ideas, dreams, articles to read inside. Voila!
Workshops + Retreats: Living Your Yoga 4-week series and online creativity circle in September, annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18, 10-year birthday bash on October 30. In 2010, consider the 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28 and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 22-29. All the scoop is on my workshops page. Featured Tranquilista:Jennifer Lee is the founder of Artizen Coaching and the creator of the portable vision board Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit and the Right-Brain Business Plan. As a certified coach, artist, author, speaker and yogini, she has empowered hundreds of professional and entrepreneurial women to awaken their inner muse and live life in full color.
Before pursuing her own passions full-time, Jennifer consulted for 10 years at companies including Gap and Accenture where she managed change and coached executives. She grew her private coaching business in her "spare time" for three years and decided to flee Corporate America in 2006 after realizing she needed to stop living her own dream "on-the-side."
Jennifer holds a B.A. in Communication Studies from UCLA and an M.A. in Communication Management from USC's Annenberg School for Communication. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute and a graduate of CTI's year-long leadership program. She is a featured coach in The Girl's Guide To Kicking Your Career Into Gear and a featured artist in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life.
Her faves: Coaching, painting, yoga, reading in her hammock, arts & crafts and anything sweet (especially her husband and her dog!). She blogs at Life Unfolds.
Signature Style: Featured "look of the podcast" is a few of my favorite 40% off summer sale items. Watch TranquiliT's spring video featuring oodles of ways to wear your favorites. Check out our sneak peek of fall. Join the TranquiliT mailing list to get the skinny. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate or help spread the word and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by September 21 (the fall equinox) will receive a complimentary CD of my newest yoga-to-go class plus a complimentary mentoring session via phone or in person (if you're local). Create away + do share!
Welcome to the 159th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Recorded from the Pink Palace in Washington, DC.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on getting organized with Kacy Paide. Ooh la la: check out my recent exploit with home organization.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "Fall Festivity" on September 21 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Tranquility Tip: When feeling disorganized, take a peek around and see what you can do to bring order to your chaos. Something as simple as piling paperwork, filing, or moving things around can make a big difference.
Workshops + Retreats: Living Your Yoga 4-week series and online creativity circle in September, annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18, 10-year birthday bash on October 30. In 2010, consider the 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28 and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 22-29. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista: Kacy Paide, a professional organizer since 2001, took a leap of faith in 2008 to focus soley on office organizing for creative business owners. She is very hands-on and insists that organized office be the "centerpiece of your success." Clients are left with the ability to find what they need when they need it, a space that reflects their personality, and customized systems to fall back on should the papers start to creep back in. Many of her clients claim to be "out of site out of mind," so she has much success with creative categorizing and alternatives to the traditional filing cabinet. Past clients include: wine expert, lingerie company owner, lawyers, art gallery owner, retail shop owners, and more.
Signature Style: Featured "look of the podcast" is the organic bamboo skirt pant. Watch TranquiliT's spring video featuring oodles of ways to wear your favorites. Check out our sneak peek of fall. Like to be in-the-know? Join the TranquiliT mailing list to get the skinny. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate or help spread the word and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by September 21 (the fall equinox) will receive a complimentary CD of my newest yoga-to-go class plus a complimentary mentoring session via phone or in person (if you're local). Create away + do share!
Omwork: How can you create an inspired office this week?
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Astronautsby Quinn from Music Alley. You can learn more about them at quinnonline.net.
You don't need an iPod to listen to the podcast! Click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes!
Welcome to the 158th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Recording from the Pink Palace in Washington, DC.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on anxiety to zen with Bonnie Schmidt.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "Fall Festivity" on September 21 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Tranquility Tip: When feeling anxious, take ten deep yogic breaths and connect to the sensations within.
Workshops + Retreats: A tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series and online creativity circle in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. In 2010, consider the 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28 and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 22-29. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista: Bonnie Schmidt is a certified yoga instructor with a background in stress and anxiety relief. After suffering with an anxiety disorder and frequent panic attacks for almost 10 years she devoted a year of her life to study alternative therapies and healing practices to help alleviate the anxiety. Through her journey she found yoga. With a desire to enhance her own practice she signed up to become a certified instructor so she could experiment with what worked best for her in her personal life. After finding much success, and alleviating most of her daily anxiety, she became determined to share what she learned with others that were going through the same thing.
In January 2009 she launched Anxiety to Zen, a website dedicated to educating and empowering people with anxiety disorders. Through this website she shares what she learns and blogs about her journey. She has had the opportunity to share what has helped her along the way with a variety of online publications such as bettyconfidential.com and iamthatgirl.com. Along with teaching, she also conducts workshops that aim to promote awareness of chronic stress and anxiety disorders, teaches stress and anxiety relief yoga classes and works with people one-on-one to help them ease stress and anxiety in their lives.
Signature Style: Featured "look of the podcast" is the organic bamboo cardishawl. Super versatile. Watch TranquiliT's spring video featuring oodles of ways to wear your favorites. Like to be in-the-know? Join the TranquiliT mailing list to get the skinny. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate or help spread the word and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by September 21 (the fall equinox) will receive a complimentary CD of my newest yoga-to-go class plus a complimentary mentoring session via phone or in person (if you're local). Create away + do share!
Omwork: How can you switch anxiety to zen this week?
Welcome to the 157th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Recording from the Pink Palace in Washington, DC.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on DIY fun with Dianna Rupp.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "Fall Festivity" on September 21 at 9pm ET. $10. View petals from summer's teleclass.
Tranquility Tip: Do things differently. Bead a necklace. Sign up for a sewing class. Explore your creative/DIY side. Create something unique for someone else. Play with stickers and glitter.
Workshops + Retreats: Tools for creative expression on July 13 (mp3 available), a tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. In 2010, consider the 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28 and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 22-29. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista:
early on diana was inspired and schooled by two great craft role models: her mom, kathy, who could give martha a run for her money, and her great-grandmother, hallie, a professional milliner and expert quilter.
diana's fondest childhood memories are of her mother's over-the-top projects, a few favorites being a handmade barbie wedding dress, sugar diorama easter eggs and a holly hobbie birthday cake that took two days to decorate. almost all of kathy's skills were self-taught, so it's no wonder diana has a decidedly DIY aesthetic. taught to knit, sew and embroider by the age of eight, diana can't remember a time when she wasn't obsessed with the world of fashion (her first subscription to W was at the tender age of 12).
throughout her teen years she struggled with the decision to become either a writer or a clothing designer. her love of books won out at first, but after studying english lit in college and creative writing in grad school, diana finally embraced her superficial side and began working as a stylist and fashion editor. before long she made yet another life-changing decision to trade in all that glam and glory to pursue her real passion: making stuff. but to be honest, she kind of had to: diana's former editor ordered her to stop teaching all of her coworkers to knit on company time. in the summer of 2001 she left san francisco for nyc determined to pursue all things crafty, and in february of 2002 make was started with a friend. in 2003, diana began running the business solo. now she spends her days teaching, dreaming up new workshops, and writing crafty books. in november of 2007 her first foray, SEW: sew everything workshop was published by workman.
Signature Style: Featured "look of the podcast" is the organic bamboo bandeau bra. So comfy, supportive, and doubles as a bikini top. Watch TranquiliT's spring video featuring oodles of ways to wear your favorites. Like to be in-the-know? Join the TranquiliT mailing list to get the skinny. Follow TranquiliT on twitter. Become a fan. Add TranquiliT to your blog and become an Affiliate or help spread the word and join our Tribe.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by September 21 (the fall equinox) will receive a complimentary CD of my newest yoga-to-go class plus a complimentary mentoring session via phone or in person (if you're local). Create away + do share!
Omwork: How can you indulge in some DIY this week?
Welcome to the 156th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Recording from the Pink Palace in Washington, DC.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on self love with Christine Arylo.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "Shine with Summer Solstice" on June 29 (a day before my birthday!). $10.
Tranquility Tip: Yay birthday week. Each year I do a reflection exercise and encourage you to join me in the process. I write out everything accomplished since my last birthday and another list of everything I hope to accomplish by my next birthday. It works out perfectly since I have a mid-year birthday, but you, too, can join me in reflecting on goals mid-year! Workshops + Retreats: Tools for creative expression on July 13 (mp3 available), a tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. In 2010, consider the 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28 and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 22-29. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista:After earning her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and spending over twelve years marketing big brands such as Gap Inc., Visa and Frito-Lay, Christine Arylo traded in building images for corporations for a chance to inspire women to break free from their self-limiting images.
Merging her professional experience and extensive leadership and coaching training with a seven-year spiritual journey, Christine now works with women and girls as a catalyst for change. Christine’s clients -- who range from entrepreneurs to executives to women seeking a deeper personal path -- share one thing in common, they all want to live more of their most real and wise self.
A new kind of self-love expert, Christine takes a fresh approach to redefining self-love for today’s woman as hip, hot and hers. Her no-taboo, limit-busting conversations and workshops, Girltalk… taking it deeper™, take place in venues ranging from the Internet (www.letsgirltalk.com), to colleges and high schools, to women’s events in major U.S. cities. In 2008, she launched Madly in Love with ME™, an international movement to inspire, dare and guide women and girls to be, love and live their most real and wise selves (www.madlyinlovewithme.com). She is the author of Choosing ME Before WE, The Every Woman’s Guide to Life and Love, which was released on February 13th, 2009 (New World Library).
Christine lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner, Noah, and their Siberian Husky.
Challenge: Send moi photos of you getting your artist date on and I'll share them with our readers. The most creative artist date photo/write up received by September 21 (the fall equinox) will receive a complimentary CD of my newest yoga-to-go class plus a complimentary mentoring session via phone or in person (if you're local). Create away + do share!
Omwork: How can you engage in more self love this week?
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Sala by Abigal Washburnfrom Promonet. You can learn more about .
You don't need an iPod to listen to the podcast! Click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes!
Welcome to the 155th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Recording from the Pink Palace in Washington, DC. Merci beaucoup for sharing your twitter and blog scoop. What a fun, talented online community we have!
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on creativity with Amy Butler.
Tranquilology Teleclass: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "Shine with Summer Solstice" on June 29 (a day before my birthday!). $10.
Tranquility Tip: Create a morning ritual: Light a candle. Do a sun salutation. Sip green tea with agave nectar. Nosh on organic museli with soy milk topped with strawberries. Write in your journal. Set your intention. Meditate for five minutes.
Workshops + Retreats: A summer solstice staycation in DC THIS Saturday, June 20, tools for creative expression on July 13 (mp3 available), a tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. In 2010, consider the 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28 and a week long sojourn to lush Costa Rica May 22-29. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista: Amy Butler is a fabric, home, fashion, and print designer known for her modern approach to botanical, geometric and romantic inspirations. With spirited color and confident combinations of print, Amy has created a freshened view of the many product categories for which she now designs. Her latest lifestyle book, Amy Butler's Midwest Modern, (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) profiles her personal passions and lifestyle surrounding exotic gardens and the lush, vibrant inspirations of her daily life. As a sewing pattern designer, she has brought modern styling to the sewing arts and inspired a new generation of young women to "find their own style." With over 5 million hits a month on her website and numerous editorial appearances, Amy's growing brand has become synonymous with creativity, sustainability, quality and great style. Amy’s fabrics, patterns, papers, handbags, design and project books, and home décor products are sold worldwide.
Signature Style: Featured "look of the podcast" is the organic bamboo 2-in-1 slip dress. Watch TranquiliT's spring video featuring oodles of ways to wear your favorites. Like to be in-the-know? Join the TranquiliT mailing list to get the skinny. Save the date: summer solstice sale at the showroom THIS Wednesday, June 17. Répondez s'il vous plaît to info@TranquiliT.com. Don't live in DC? Don't despair. Shop online and save 25% using code SOLSTICE on Wednesday!
Welcome to the 154th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on creativity with Goddess Leonie.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "Shine with Summer Solstice" on June 29 PLUS events around the globe: hip hop yoga in DC (with a DJ) on Friday, June 5, a summer solstice staycation in DC on June 20, tools for creative expression on July 13 (mp3 available: http://www.tranquilit.com/events) another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. In 2010, I'm hosting the 4th annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat March 26-28 and a week long sojourn to Costa Rica May 22-29. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista: Goddess Leonie Leonie Allan runs e-courses, gives readings and creates custom art to help every woman discover the Goddess inside her. She lives in the purple foothills of Canberra, Australia, living a creative and sacred Goddess life.
Signature Style: Spring has sprung at TranquiliT. Featured "look of the podcast" is the organic bamboo savasana throw. Watch TranquiliT's spring video featuring NEW ways to wear your favorites. Be sure to join the TranquiliT mailing list to get the skinny. Save the date: summer solstice sale at the showroom on Wednesday, June 17.
Welcome to the 153rd edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on ordinary sparkling moments with Christine Mason Miller.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next tranquilology teleclass "Shine with Summer Solstice" on June 29 PLUS events around the globe: a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day (we leave SATURDAY!), hip hop yoga in DC (with a DJ) on Friday, June 5, a summer solstice staycation in DC on June 20, another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista: Christine Mason Miller Christine Mason Milleris a Santa Monica based artist with nearly 15 years of art, design and illustration experience. She is the creator of the internationally recognized brand Swirly, and her work has been inspiring people of all ages worldwide to follow their dreams and passions since 1995. Her work as an artist has evolved far beyond the Swirly world, with collections of paintings and mixed media creations being sold and exhibited nationwide. Christine's work gives viewers a peek into a variety of details of her life, from travels around the globe to memories shared with her grandma. Using materials as varied as acrylic and oil paints, pastels, ink, vintage photographs and other ephemera, Christine's creations are full of color, texture and hidden stories.
Her latest creation, Ordinary Sparkling Moments, is a full color self-published book that combines her mixed media work and writing, all aimed at exploring the joys of finding wisdom in everyday life. Ordinary Sparkling Moments was released in August 2008 and can be purchased on this website, Etsy and Amazon.com.
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Mumtaz by Bombai Dub Orchestrafrom Promonet. You can learn more about The Angel at theangelsoundclash.com.
Welcome to the 152nd edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on creativity with Kelly Rae Roberts.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next le chic teleclass chat "Shine with Summer Solstice" on June 29 PLUS events around the globe: a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, hip hop yoga in DC (with a DJ) on Friday, June 5, a summer solstice staycation in DC on June 20, another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista: Kelly Rae Roberts Kelly Rae Roberts is a mixed media painter, author, and seeker of all things joyous. She is the author of Taking Flight: Inspiration + Techniques to Give Your Creative Spirit Wings, a popular arts + craft book that encompasses all aspects of what it means to live the creative life. Her work has been featured in a variety of mixed media books by her peers and she's had several articles published in various magazines, including Cloth Paper Scissors, Memory Makers and Somerset Life. Recently, she signed on with Brush Dance Publishing and Demdaco for long term licensing agreements that will showcase her work on cards, journals, magnets, calendars, and decorative wall art in stores nationwide. In essence, Kelly Rae is an artist, author, and all around lover of life who seeks to express a sense of vitality and connectedness in her paintings and writing.
Welcome to the 151st edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on mind/body fusion with Kate Hanley.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next le chic teleclass chat "Shine with Summer Solstice" on June 29 PLUS events around the globe: a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, hip hop yoga in DC (with a DJ) on Friday, June 5, a summer solstice staycation in DC on June 20, another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista: Kate Hanley Kate is a Brooklyn-based writer and registered yoga instructor. The author of The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide: 77 Simple Strategies for Serenity, Kate has appeared as a stress-reduction expert on the TODAY show and Martha Stewart Sirius Radio and served as the coach for the iVillage.com iFeelGood Community Challenge.
Kate is a contributing editor to Body + Soul magazine and a regular contributor to Natural Health, Natural Solutions, and the Gaiam Stream of Consciousness blog. Her work has also been published in Yoga Journal, Playboy, Delicious Living, TimeOut New York, Prevention.com and LHJ.com. Hanley hosts her own website, msmindbody.com, where she discusses simple things busy people can do to feel better in the minds, bodies, and spirits.
Signature Style: Spring has sprung at TranquiliT. Featured "look of the podcast" is the versatile organic bamboo essentials. Seven staples to design your eco-essentials. Special savings on Earth Day. Be sure to join the TranquiliT mailing list to get the skinny.
Welcome to the 150th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day. Another milestone in serving up tranquility!
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on being creatively fit with Whitney Ferre.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next le chic teleclass chat "Shine with Summer Solstice" on June 29 PLUS events around the globe: a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, hip hop yoga in DC (with a DJ) on Friday, June 5, a summer solstice staycation in DC on June 20, another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, 2009, a Living Your Yoga 4-week series in September, and the annual Fall Foliage retreat to the hills of Virginia October 16-18. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured Tranquilista: Whitney Ferre Based on the principles of that underlie the aesthetics of design, this book shows how to strengthen creative ability into a reality by working out the right brain through a series of exercises. “This is for everyone who wants to create change, to make a difference and leave the world around them different and better than when they started; to help unlock their creative potential to transform any area of their life,” says author Ferré. In life and the workplace today, developing ideas outside of the box is what differentiates the extraordinary from the common place.
Whitney Ferré has helped hundreds of people to find their creativity as founder of the Creative Fitness Center. The Center first gained national recognition on HGTV. Today she continues her outreach leading corporate seminars, teaching art classes, and as a creativity expert on television & radio. Whitney is also an artist, a wife, a mother, and a co-owner of Rumours Wine Bars that build communities around food, wine, and art. She lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 149th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on simplicity with Mary Carlomagno.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next le chic teleclass chat "Bloom into Spring" on March 23 PLUS events around the globe: a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, a summer solstice staycation in DC on June 20, and another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured guest: Mary Carlomagno Like most people, Mary Carlomagno was stressed out, over scheduled, and tripping over the clutter of her days--until she decided to take control. Each month, she eliminated one distraction: alcohol, shopping, elevators, newspapers, cell phones, dining out, television, taxis, coffee, cursing, chocolate and multitasking. Her journey is chronicled in her first book, Give it Up! My Year of Learning to Live Better with Less by HarperCollins. Mary's journey changed her life and became the basis for order.
Mary has appeared on the Today Show, Fox and Friends, CBS News and Good Housekeeping TV. She has been interviewed on Martha Stewart Radio and by Leeza Gibbons and Joan Hamburg. Mary's simple and action-oriented system for organization has been featured in Real Simple, Woman's Day, Quick and Simple, For Me magazine, Newsday and the Daily News. Mary writes frequently on the subject of getting organized for magazines and newspapers including Body and Soul, the Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pink, Woman's World and Figure. She is also an expert columnist on care.com and regular contributor to Design NJ.
Mary teaches workshops and lectures to corporations, community organizations and professional groups including Media Bistro.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musings on event planning with Jackie Leventhal.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next le chic teleclass chat Bloom into Spring on March 23 PLUS events around the globe: a luxurious weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, a summer solstice staycation in DC on June 20, and another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured guest: Jackie Leventhal Jackie Leventhal coordinates cultural events at Sixth & I, a historic synagogue and cultural center in downtown DC. She hosts events for touring authors, politicians, notable personalities and actors, as well as innovators and intellectuals making an impact at the forefront of the cultural landscape. Jackie has coordinated events for Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and Elie Wiesel, photographer Annie Leibovitz, Pulitzer Prize winning authors Jhumpa Lahiri and Geraldine Brooks, comedian Lewis Black, Speaker Pelosi, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, among others. From scheduling an event to a post-event thank-you note, Jackie is a self-taught event coordinator, reliant on a massive checklist, instinct, a supportive team, and the hope that she can get a photo with the subject of the event.
Jackie graduated from the University of Florida in 2005 with a BA in Sociology. She also earned a Certificate in Writing from Georgetown University. Her freelance credits include Breakup Girl, Brazen Careerist, and Employee Evolution. She also does editing and PR work for a freelance writer/author.
In her free time, Jackie seeks serenity on a hot pink yoga mat, believing that indeed, color does matter. Jackie would like to visit 30 countries by the time she's 30 (17 visited so far), but doesn't think she has that much vacation time.
Eager to volunteer, Jackie taught English to non-native speakers and created a book club and curriculum based on Tuesdays With Morrie. She currently serves as the Volunteer Coordinator of Tranquil Space Foundation and is the editor of the Foundation's quarterly newsletter. She loves muffins (the descendant of a baker) and loathes the winter (once a Floridian, always a Floridian).
Bonjour! Welcome to the 147th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musing on the freelance life with Michelle Goodman.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next le chic teleclass chat Bloom into Spring on March 23 PLUS events around the globe: a luxurious weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, a summer solstice staycation in DC on June 20, and another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: 50% off your ENTIRE TranquiliT order 2.22 and 3.1 only. Use code AUREVOIR because we're saying "Au Revoir to Winter" and ready to welcome spring! Join TranquiliT's facebook page. Featured guest: Michelle Goodman Michelle Goodman is the author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube and My So-Called Freelance Life. Her articles and essays about alternative careers, human mating rituals, and cultural trends have graced media outlets such as ABCNews.com, CNN.com, Salon.com, The Seattle Times, BUST, Bitch, The Bark, and several anthologies. In her sixteen years as a full-time freelancer, she's had the opportunity to wrangle text about computer games, marital aids, dog pajamas, home colonics, and just about anything else that can be sold. She lives in Seattle with her eighty-pound lapdog, Buddy. For more scoop on the so-called freelance life, visit her blog at Anti9to5Guide.com.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 146th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musing on zen, business, and less is more with Marc Lesser.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next teleclass Bloom into Spring on March 23 PLUS events around the globe: a luxurious weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, and another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: Sneak peek at spring 2009!
Featured guest: Marc Lesser Marc is the founder and president of ZBA Associates, a company offering coaching, consulting and facilitation services. Marc's skill and passion is assisting individuals and organizations to fully engage with their strength, power, and innate wisdom.
Marc was the founder and CEO of Brush Dance, (www.brushdance.com) a publishing company that creates greeting cards, journals and calendars, for 15 years. He holds B.A. degree in psychology from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. degree from New York University’s Graduate School of Business.
Marc has been practicing and studying Zen for 30 years and is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years and, in 1983, served as Director of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen monastery in the West. He currently lectures and teaches in both the business and Zen environments. Marc co-leads (with Norman Fischer) Company Time, retreats for business people at Zen Center’s Green Gulch Farm.
Marc has been a member of Social Venture Network, a national organization that combines business, social responsibility and spirituality, for the past 10 years and now serves on the SVN Board of Directors. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of the San Francisco Zen Center Board of Directors and is a member of the Zen Center's Outside Financial Advisory Board.
Prior to attending business school, Marc was an executive search consultant in New York City, placing high level finance candidates in Chase Manhattan Bank, Merrill Lynch, and other major New York banks. He also worked for a New York management consulting firm on a project of researching the size and viability of the cellular phone market for AT&T.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 145th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musing on creativity with Leigh Standley of Curly Girl Design.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next teleclass Bloom into Spring on March 23 and our next online creativity circle starting January 26 PLUS events around the globe: a luxurious weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009, a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, and another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: 2-in-1 long sleeve top - $20 off! Featured guest: Leigh Standley Leigh's whimsical and witty work has been in the making for the better part of her thirty years. Born and raised in St. Louis, Leigh began designing in seventh grade where she got poor marks in Math class for doodling. She went on to attend University of Kansas School of Design and holds a BFA in Visual Communications. Her work has been featured in national design publications and regional art shows and is inspired by her incredible friends and family. Leigh has lived in Boston for six years and likes it so much she only occasionally wishes it were Paris.
Leigh enjoys traveling, old movies and singing. She can't live without: yoga, her family and Snickers. She has strong feelings about education, believes in magic and is quite certain that given a cape and a nice tiara, she could save the world.
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing vOX by The Shanghai Restoration Project from Promonet. You can learn more about their music in the shownotes.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 144th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musing on financial finesse in a tricky economy with experts Sarah and Candi Kaplan.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for our next teleclass Bloom into Spring on March 23 and our next online creativity circle starting January 26 PLUS events around the globe: a day focused on creating a fabulous 2009 at our 2nd annual new year's gala, a luxurious weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009, a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, and another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is on my workshops page.
Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: skirt dress. Use coupon code INTENTION and save 20% on this piece through Monday, January 19.
Featured guests:
Sarah Kaplan As a financial professional, Sarah Kaplan creates value for clients by providing them with the professional expertise necessary to help them achieve their financial goals, offering ongoing service and advice as their needs change.
Sarah specializes in helping to develop financial solutions for corporations, business owners, and individuals. She offers a vast array of financial strategies, services and products to help implement these solutions. These include an in-depth financial needs analysis and business, estate and retirement planning strategies tailored to clients needs. She is licensed to provide life, health and long-term care insurance, annuities, and investments. Sarah will also work jointly with clients’ CPAs, attorneys, and other professionals to create a well-integrated, simplified financial program designed to help meet all of their financial needs.
Sarah is a graduate of the University of Maryland’s R.H. Smith School of Business. She has received her Retirement Planning Specialist designation from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Unlike many financial professionals, Sarah has had life-long exposure to the industry through her mother’s successful 29-year practice. Sarah draws upon that unique perspective when working with her own clients.
What separates Kaplan Financial Group from other financial services firms are individuals like Sarah, who take the extra time to really listen to their clients, discover their needs and help provide recommendations for real solutions.
Candace G. Kaplan, CFP®, RHU, ChFC earned her BA degree at George Washington University. She is the CEO and President of Kaplan Financial Group, Kaplan Benefits Group, LLC and K- Financial, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor. She has served the financial and insurance needs of organizations and individuals for over 29 years.
In 1993 she was honored by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York as “Man of the Year”, the third woman in MONY’s 150 year history to receive that prestigious award. She has been honored with company and industry awards for her leadership, sales performance and outstanding client service every year of her career.
Kaplan is also a member of the prestigious Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), recognized as the standard of excellence in the industry, and, has also earned a place at MDRT’s Top of the Table. Kaplan is the past Chairman of the Dean’s Council of the Columbian College at George Washington University, a member of the Planned Giving Committee of the University, and has been active at GW for many years. She is a member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, and the Financial Planning Association. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Congressional Bank.
She lives in Potomac, Maryland with her husband Lawrence. Her daughter, Sarah Kaplan, is her business partner, and her son, Jonathan, daughter-in-law, Doris, and grandson, Eli, live in New York.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 143rd edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musing on planner pad pursuits with Joanna Lo and Julia Coney.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for a "New Year, New You" teleclass on January 5 and our next online creativity circle starting January 26 PLUS events around the globe: a day focused on creating a fabulous 2009 at our 2nd annual new year's gala, a luxurious weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009, a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, and another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is on my workshops page. Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: skirt pant. Featured guests: Julia Coney created All About the Pretty in March 2006 because of her intense love of beauty products. The site is musings of beauty as a lifestyle and not just a product. All About the Pretty was voted one of the hottest top ten beauty blogs by Women's Wear Daily. Joanna Lo started her fascination with paper organization when she was introduced origami paper as a young child growing up in Taipei. Since then, she has used her work in international trade to expand her knowledge of paper customization products by using any excuse to travel and spend hours and hours in the stationery stores in Taipei, Beijing, Dallas, and DC, as well as online. She also has used the Franklin Covey system, the Getting Things Done system, and loves to combine both paper and electronic planning. PlannerPad personalization is her current passion.
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Mastermind by Dan the Automator and Del the Funky Homosapien from Promonet. You can learn more about their music in the shownotes.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 142nd edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musing on journal writing with Samara O'Shea, author of Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits.
Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for a "New Year, New You" teleclass on January 5 and our next online creativity circle starting January 26 PLUS events around the globe: a day focused on creating a fabulous 2009 at our 2nd annual new year's gala, workshops in Asheville and Montreal, a luxurious weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009, a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, and another tranquility-filled week at Kripalu August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is on my workshops page. Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: lavender-scented eyepillow. Featured guest: Samara O'Shea is an outspoken advocate on behalf of the written word. She is the author of Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits and For the Love of Letters: A 21st-Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing. She also runs a letter-writing service at LetterLover.net.
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Jingle Bells by Dean Martin and Dan the Automator from Promonet. You can learn more about their music in the shownotes.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 141st edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s podcast (originally podcast as hip tranquil chick #9 all the way back in 2005) consists of a restorative way to celebrate the holidays, and more fabulous podsafe music - Symmetrical Angels Part 2 by 2-RD. (Note Louis the Pug snoring throughout the entire podcast!) View our shownotes at kimberlywilson.com/blog. Restorative poses to help keep you fresh throughout the holidays
This sequence is perfect for rejuvenating over the holidays and can be done in a few minutes or, if you can carve out the space, savor this sequence for at least 30 minutes!
Extra doses of tranquility include a silk lavender-filled eyepillow, a scented candle burning nearby, the phone turned off, rosebud salve on your lips, a lush pillow or blanket nearby, and a yummy essential oil rubbed onto your temples. Have a blanket or bolster nearby for #4-6.
1. Begin on your back and extend your legs up the wall. For a shoulder opener, bring the arms up over your head and reach for opposite elbows. Notice your breath and feel the body soften.
2. For a variation, open your legs to a wide V.
3. For another variation, bend your knees and place the soles of the feet together. Stay here as long as feels good.
4. Take a blanket or bolster and roll it tightly lengthwise. Place the blanket vertically behind your tailbone, and lie back over the blanket. Let your arms splay out to the sides or up over your head.
5. Place the blanket horizonally under the shoulderblades (at your bra line) and roll back over the blanket. This one is a huge heart opener and so powerful.
6. Come to child's pose but gring your big toes together and open your knees wide. Place the blanket in between the knees and rest over the blanket(s), turn your head to either side.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 140th edition of tranquility du jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day.
Today’s show menu features happenings and musing with moi on greening. Workshops + Retreats: Join moi for events in DC (including a workshop at the TranquiliT showroom on growing your craft to business, Denver in January, Montreal in March. Plus we've got a day focused on creating 2009 at our 2nd annual new year's gala, weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009, a retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, and another week at Kripalu next August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is at my workshops page. Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: Luxe Bridal Featured guest: Moi with fodder from eco-coach.com
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Hope Over Hope by Karmacoda. A BIG hello to the lovely Heather Pierce, who provides vocals for the band. You can learn more about their music at karmacoda.com.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 139th edition of Tranquility Du Jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day, formerly known as Hip Tranquil Chick. See blog for the reasoning behind the rename - same show and passion for ALL things hip and tranquil!
Today’s show menu features happenings and musing with Cami Walker. Workshops + Retreats: Join me for events in DC (including a workshop at the TranquiliT showroom on growing your craft to business, Denver in January, Montreal in March. Plus we've got a day focused on creating 2009 at our 2nd annual new year's gala, weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009, a retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day, and another week at Kripalu next August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is at my workshops page. Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: our new eco blog. Come by the showroom on Thursday between 5-8pm for our monthly open house! Featured guest: Cami Walker
Cami Walker, 29Gifts.org founder, is a writer, artist and healer who lives in Hollywood, California. She worked in advertising for 'the big boys' for a long time, helping companies who already have millions of dollars make millions more. After 15 years of focusing on making money for these giants, she found herself feeling empty, unfulfilled and struggling with a serious health condition (Multiple Sclerosis) that required she stop living her over-driven lifestyle. Now Cami's focus is on helping build companies and community projects that are spiritually-centered and wildly profitable on all levels. She created the 29-Day Giving Challenge to encourage friends, family, clients and hopefully many strangers to give back to our communities--and as a way to help herself heal.
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Girlz Around My Way by PS24. You can learn more about their music at myspace.com/PS24music. Check out the video for the song too:
Bonjour! Welcome to the 138th edition of Tranquility Du Jour: a guide to bringing tranquility to your every day, formerly known as Hip Tranquil Chick. See blog for the reasoning behind the rename - same show and passion for ALL things hip and tranquil!
Today’s show menu features happenings and musing with author Ilana Simons on a life of one's own. Workshops + Retreats: Join me for events in DC (including a workshop at the TranquiliT showroom on growing your craft to business, Denver in January, Montreal in March. Also, Fall Foliage retreat in the hills of Virginia next weekend. Plus we've got a day focused on creating 2009 at our 2nd annual new year's gala, weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009, and another week at Kripalu next August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is at kimberlywilson.com's workshops page. Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: all-in-one wrap dress. This pieces is perfect for weddings, the beach, cocktail parties, and looking great on-the-go. Featured guest: Ilana Simons Ilana Simons is the author of A Life of One’s Own: A Guide to Better Living through the Work and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf (Penguin, 2007). She received her PhD in literature from New York University in 2003 and is currently finishing her PhD in clinical psychology at The New School. She has taught literature and writing at New York University and The New School for the past ten years. Recipient of the Willy Gorrissen Award for Teaching Excellence and the Molberger Fellowship for modernist scholarship, she also writes the weekly “Literature & Life” blog for Barnes & Noble, here.
Ilana has lectured in venues from Miami to San Francisco. She paints portraits, too, which you can see on her website, here, and her works-in-progress site, here.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 137th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat. We'll be retitling the podcast starting next week - same vision, new name.
Today’s show menu features happenings and unfolding your life vision Workshops + Retreats: Join me for workshops and book signings in Leesburg, VA and Lexington in October, Denver in January, Montreal in March. Also, Fall Foliage retreat in the hills of Virginia at the end of October. Plus we've got a day focused on creating 2009 at our 2nd annual new year's gala, weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009, and another week at Kripalu next August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is at kimberlywilson.com's workshops page. Featured eco-luxe TranquiliT: check out our new eco blog at TranquiliT.com. Featured guest: Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is the founder of Artizen Coaching and the creator of the Right-Brain Business Plan. As a certified coach, artist, author, speaker and yogini, she has empowered hundreds of professional and entrepreneurial women to awaken their inner muse and live life in full color.
Before pursuing her own passions full-time, Jennifer consulted for 10 years at companies including Gap and Accenture where she managed change and coached executives. She grew her private coaching business in her "spare time" and decided to flee Corporate America in 2006 after realizing she needed to stop living her own dream "on-the-side."
Jennifer holds a B.A. in Communication Studies from UCLA and an M.A. in Communication Management from USC's Annenberg School for Communication. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute, a CTI Quest Circle Coach and a graduate of CTI's year-long leadership program. She is a featured coach in the book The Girl's Guide To Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her work will appear in the forthcoming book Vision Boards: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. Jennifer is currently working on her own book about using creativity to unfold your life vision.
She spends her days coaching individual clients, facilitating workshops, leading Ladies Who Launch in Oakland, practicing yoga on and off the mat, writing and doing creative projects. She loves hanging out with her husband and her dog, reading, being crafty and connecting with friends. She blogs at Life Unfolds.
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Ghost Hardwear by Burial courtesy of IODA Promonet. You can learn more about their music at myspace.com/burialuk.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 136th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s show menu features updates, fall fashion, and enlightenment for idiots:
Le chic teleclass chat on Frolicking Creatively (and Mindfully) into Fall on Monday, September 15 at 9pm ET. If you can't be on the phone at that exact time, don't fret - sign up and we'll send you the mp3! Workshops + Retreats: Join me for workshops and book signings in Leesburg, VA and Lexington in October, Denver in January, Montreal in March. In addition, we've got a day focused on creating 2009 at our 2nd annual new year's gala, weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009m and another week at Kripalu next August 9-14, 2009. All the scoop is at kimberlywilson.com's workshops page.
As a writer and teacher of yoga and meditation, Anne Cushman explores the poignant intersection between the lofty ideals of spiritual practice and the gritty, comical, and heartbreaking details of ordinary life. She is a contributing editor to both Yoga Journal and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and the coauthor of From Here to Nirvana, a seeker’s guide to spiritual India. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Salon.com, and have been anthologized in Best Buddhist Writing 2004 and 2006, A Woman’s Path: Best Women’s Spiritual Travel Writing, Traveling Souls: Contemporary Pilgrimage Tales, and other books. She co-directs the Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California; and lives in nearby Fairfax with her seven-year-old son, Skye.
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Pink Neon by Natalie Walker courtesy of Promonet. You can learn more about Natalie's music at natalie-walker.com.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 135th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Off the Mat: Today’s menu features the final episode of our 4-part series with Kathy Korman Frey from Hot Momma's Project on Wanting it (part one), Getting it (part two), Break in Case of Emergency (part three, last episode) and Setting up a Goals Group (part four, this week). View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog.
Kathy Korman Frey is a life-long student of business and has interviewed an estimated 15,000 executives during her career. She is the founder of the consulting firm Vision Forward (www.VisionForward.com) and its business curriculum initiative, The Hot Mommas (TM) Project (www.HotMommas.org). Since its inception in 2001, Vision Forward has become known for its innovative business model as well as high success rate in helping businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations. Clients such as Discovery Communications, The American Association of Retired Persons, and The Department of Justice have benefited from the company’s unique approach utilizing business education techniques to bring about measurable results in their organizations. The Hot Mommas® Project - the recipient of a 2006 Coleman Foundation Case Award - chronicles the equations for success across a spectrum of highly-successful women leaders. With the backing of partners like The George Washington University's Center For Entrepreneurial Excellence, the first generation of this research will be published in 2008.
As an educator at GW, Mrs. Frey has a specialty in curriculum development. She co-developed the curriculum for the George Washington University’s 2004-2007 Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program which won a National Excellence in Education Award, Specialty Model Program, and led to a ranking of GW’s Entrepreneurship Program in Fortune Small Business. Mrs. Frey also developed the entrepreneurship curriculum for Visa's Practical Money Skills site in partnership with the National Federation for Independent Business and its Young Entrepreneur Foundation. During the 2006-2007 year, this curriculum was taught to approximately 30,000 high school students. Currently, the curriculum is Google’s leading “business plan exercises” listing. In 2008, Mrs. Frey's cases will be published in the nation's no. 2 selling entrepreneurship textbook, Essentials of Small Business Management.
Prior to her current activities, Mrs. Frey served as the Chief Operating Officer for the National Council on the Aging Development Corporation where she worked with teams to develop, capitalize, and manage entrepreneurial ventures in the health and aging industries. Mrs. Frey led presentations with the White House, Fortune 500 corporations, and venture capitalists and was part of the planning team for www.BenefitsCheckUp.org which today delivers a 200 to 1 ROI. Mrs. Frey served as an analyst and in management at Markowitz & McNaughton, Incorporated (later acquired by Citigate) performing competitive and merger & acquisition analyses for Fortune 100 clients in order to advise the leaders of multinational corporations on a variety of strategic growth decisions. There, she founded two departments responsible for major increases in operational efficiencies and new business revenues.
Mrs. Frey received her B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the board of the Alzheimer's Association, National Capital Area. She lives in DC with entrepreneur husband Josh Frey, their two children, Maxwell and Delilah (Lilah), and dog Foxy.
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Join me for workshops and book signings in Lexington in October, Denver in January, Montreal in March.
In addition, we've got a weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009 and another week at Kripalu next August 9-14, 2009.
Our next le chic teleclass chat is on Frolicking Creatively (and Mindfully) into Fall on Monday, September 15 at 9pm ET. If you can't be on the phone at that exact time, don't fret - sign up and we'll send you the mp3!
Bonjour! Welcome to the 134th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
On the Mat:
Off the Mat: Today’s menu features part 3 of a 4-part series with Kathy Korman Frey from Hot Momma's Project on Wanting it (part one), Getting it (part two, last week), Break in Case of Emergency (part three, this week) and Setting up a Goal's Group (part four, next week). View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog.
Kathy Korman Frey is a life-long student of business and has interviewed an estimated 15,000 executives during her career. She is the founder of the consulting firm Vision Forward (www.VisionForward.com) and its business curriculum initiative, The Hot Mommas (TM) Project (www.HotMommas.org). Since its inception in 2001, Vision Forward has become known for its innovative business model as well as high success rate in helping businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations. Clients such as Discovery Communications, The American Association of Retired Persons, and The Department of Justice have benefited from the company’s unique approach utilizing business education techniques to bring about measurable results in their organizations. The Hot Mommas® Project - the recipient of a 2006 Coleman Foundation Case Award - chronicles the equations for success across a spectrum of highly-successful women leaders. With the backing of partners like The George Washington University's Center For Entrepreneurial Excellence, the first generation of this research will be published in 2008.
As an educator at GW, Mrs. Frey has a specialty in curriculum development. She co-developed the curriculum for the George Washington University’s 2004-2007 Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program which won a National Excellence in Education Award, Specialty Model Program, and led to a ranking of GW’s Entrepreneurship Program in Fortune Small Business. Mrs. Frey also developed the entrepreneurship curriculum for Visa's Practical Money Skills site in partnership with the National Federation for Independent Business and its Young Entrepreneur Foundation. During the 2006-2007 year, this curriculum was taught to approximately 30,000 high school students. Currently, the curriculum is Google’s leading “business plan exercises” listing. In 2008, Mrs. Frey's cases will be published in the nation's no. 2 selling entrepreneurship textbook, Essentials of Small Business Management.
Prior to her current activities, Mrs. Frey served as the Chief Operating Officer for the National Council on the Aging Development Corporation where she worked with teams to develop, capitalize, and manage entrepreneurial ventures in the health and aging industries. Mrs. Frey led presentations with the White House, Fortune 500 corporations, and venture capitalists and was part of the planning team for www.BenefitsCheckUp.org which today delivers a 200 to 1 ROI. Mrs. Frey served as an analyst and in management at Markowitz & McNaughton, Incorporated (later acquired by Citigate) performing competitive and merger & acquisition analyses for Fortune 100 clients in order to advise the leaders of multinational corporations on a variety of strategic growth decisions. There, she founded two departments responsible for major increases in operational efficiencies and new business revenues.
Mrs. Frey received her B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the board of the Alzheimer's Association, National Capital Area. She lives in DC with entrepreneur husband Josh Frey, their two children, Maxwell and Delilah (Lilah), and dog Foxy.
Omwork: To encourage a sense of diving deeper into today’s podcast, I will post Omwork relating to this segment on our HTC forum. Please connect with fellow HTCs there and play with the following:
1. What has come up for you on "wanting it?" 2. How about "getting it?" 3. What does "break in case of emergency" mean to you?
Signature Style: Check out TranquiliT's BIG summer eco-sale! We're saying goodbye to a few summer staples as we transition our attention to fall (and the designing of spring 2009). Save on some of your favorites: skort, tube top (doubles as a skirt), tube dress (featured in Daily Candy), ruched wrap top, and more! We've just moved TranquiliT into a gorgeous tiny showroom and hope to see you at our special event THIS Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Details here.
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Join me for workshops and book signings in Lexington in October, Denver in January, Montreal in March.
In addition, we've got a weekend of tranquility and creativity at our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29, 2009 and another week at Kripalu next August 9-14, 2009.
Our next le chic teleclass chat is on Frolicking Creatively (and Mindfully) into Fall on Monday, September 15 at 9pm ET. If you can't be on the phone at that exact time, don't fret - sign up and we'll send you the mp3!
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Sunday Afternoons by Vanessa Daou, courtesy of PromoNet. Thanks for joining me for the 134th edition of the HTC podcast.
You don't need an iPod to listen to the podcast! Click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes!
Bonjour! Welcome to the 133rd edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features part 2 of a 4-part series with Kathy Korman Frey from Hot Momma's Project on Wanting it (part one, last podcast), Getting it (part two, this week), Break in Case of Emergency (part three in two weeks)and Setting up a Goal's Group (part four in four weeks). View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog.
Kathy Korman Frey is a life-long student of business and has interviewed an estimated 15,000 executives during her career. She is the founder of the consulting firm Vision Forward (www.VisionForward.com) and its business curriculum initiative, The Hot Mommas (TM) Project (www.HotMommas.org). Since its inception in 2001, Vision Forward has become known for its innovative business model as well as high success rate in helping businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations. Clients such as Discovery Communications, The American Association of Retired Persons, and The Department of Justice have benefited from the company’s unique approach utilizing business education techniques to bring about measurable results in their organizations. The Hot Mommas® Project - the recipient of a 2006 Coleman Foundation Case Award - chronicles the equations for success across a spectrum of highly-successful women leaders. With the backing of partners like The George Washington University's Center For Entrepreneurial Excellence, the first generation of this research will be published in 2008.
As an educator at GW, Mrs. Frey has a specialty in curriculum development. She co-developed the curriculum for the George Washington University’s 2004-2007 Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program which won a National Excellence in Education Award, Specialty Model Program, and led to a ranking of GW’s Entrepreneurship Program in Fortune Small Business. Mrs. Frey also developed the entrepreneurship curriculum for Visa's Practical Money Skills site in partnership with the National Federation for Independent Business and its Young Entrepreneur Foundation. During the 2006-2007 year, this curriculum was taught to approximately 30,000 high school students. Currently, the curriculum is Google’s leading “business plan exercises” listing. In 2008, Mrs. Frey's cases will be published in the nation's no. 2 selling entrepreneurship textbook, Essentials of Small Business Management.
Prior to her current activities, Mrs. Frey served as the Chief Operating Officer for the National Council on the Aging Development Corporation where she worked with teams to develop, capitalize, and manage entrepreneurial ventures in the health and aging industries. Mrs. Frey led presentations with the White House, Fortune 500 corporations, and venture capitalists and was part of the planning team for www.BenefitsCheckUp.org which today delivers a 200 to 1 ROI. Mrs. Frey served as an analyst and in management at Markowitz & McNaughton, Incorporated (later acquired by Citigate) performing competitive and merger & acquisition analyses for Fortune 100 clients in order to advise the leaders of multinational corporations on a variety of strategic growth decisions. There, she founded two departments responsible for major increases in operational efficiencies and new business revenues.
Mrs. Frey received her B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the board of the Alzheimer's Association, National Capital Area. She lives in DC with entrepreneur husband Josh Frey, their two children, Maxwell and Delilah (Lilah), and dog Foxy.
Omwork: To encourage a sense of diving deeper into today’s podcast, I will post Omwork relating to this segment on our HTC forum. Please connect with fellow HTCs there and play with the following:
1. What are your dreams? 2. What steps can you take now to "get it?" 3. What support do you need to make it happen?
Signature Style: Check out TranquiliT's BIG summer eco-sale! We're saying goodbye to a few summer staples as we transition our attention to fall (and the designing of spring 2009). Save on some of your favorites: skort, tube top (doubles as a skirt), tube dress (featured in daily candy), ruched wrap top, and more! We've just moved TranquiliT into a gorgeous tiny showroom and look forward to sharing it with you in person or via the blog and podcast.
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Join me for workshops and book signings in Lexington in October, Denver in January, Montreal in March.
In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Kripalu August 10-15 and our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29.
Our next le chic teleclass chat is on Frolicking Creatively (and Mindfully) into Fall on Monday, September 15 at 9pm ET. If you can't be on the phone at that exact time, don't fret - sign up and we'll send you the mp3!
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing City of Sounds by Viggo Steincke, courtesy of PromoNet. Thanks for joining me for the 133rd edition of the HTC podcast.
You don't need an iPod to listen to the podcast! Click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes!
Bonjour! Welcome to the 132nd edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features part 1 of a 4-part series with Kathy Korman Frey from Hot Momma's Project on Wanting it (part one, this week), Getting it (part two in two weeks), Break in Case of Emergency (part three in four weeks)and Setting up a Goal's Group (part four in six weeks). View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog.
Kathy Korman Frey is a life-long student of business and has interviewed an estimated 15,000 executives during her career. She is the founder of the consulting firm Vision Forward (www.VisionForward.com) and its business curriculum initiative, The Hot Mommas (TM) Project (www.HotMommas.org). Since its inception in 2001, Vision Forward has become known for its innovative business model as well as high success rate in helping businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations. Clients such as Discovery Communications, The American Association of Retired Persons, and The Department of Justice have benefited from the company’s unique approach utilizing business education techniques to bring about measurable results in their organizations. The Hot Mommas® Project - the recipient of a 2006 Coleman Foundation Case Award - chronicles the equations for success across a spectrum of highly-successful women leaders. With the backing of partners like The George Washington University's Center For Entrepreneurial Excellence, the first generation of this research will be published in 2008.
As an educator at GW, Mrs. Frey has a specialty in curriculum development. She co-developed the curriculum for the George Washington University’s 2004-2007 Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program which won a National Excellence in Education Award, Specialty Model Program, and led to a ranking of GW’s Entrepreneurship Program in Fortune Small Business. Mrs. Frey also developed the entrepreneurship curriculum for Visa's Practical Money Skills site in partnership with the National Federation for Independent Business and its Young Entrepreneur Foundation. During the 2006-2007 year, this curriculum was taught to approximately 30,000 high school students. Currently, the curriculum is Google’s leading “business plan exercises” listing. In 2008, Mrs. Frey's cases will be published in the nation's no. 2 selling entrepreneurship textbook, Essentials of Small Business Management.
Prior to her current activities, Mrs. Frey served as the Chief Operating Officer for the National Council on the Aging Development Corporation where she worked with teams to develop, capitalize, and manage entrepreneurial ventures in the health and aging industries. Mrs. Frey led presentations with the White House, Fortune 500 corporations, and venture capitalists and was part of the planning team for www.BenefitsCheckUp.org which today delivers a 200 to 1 ROI. Mrs. Frey served as an analyst and in management at Markowitz & McNaughton, Incorporated (later acquired by Citigate) performing competitive and merger & acquisition analyses for Fortune 100 clients in order to advise the leaders of multinational corporations on a variety of strategic growth decisions. There, she founded two departments responsible for major increases in operational efficiencies and new business revenues.
Mrs. Frey received her B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the board of the Alzheimer's Association, National Capital Area. She lives in DC with entrepreneur husband Josh Frey, their two children, Maxwell and Delilah (Lilah), and dog Foxy.
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Join me for workshops and book signings in San Francisco THIS Sunday at Yoga Tree, Lexington in October, Denver in January, Montreal in March.
In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Kripalu August 10-15 and our 3rd Annual Hip Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse not far from NYC March 27-29.
Our next le chic teleclass chat is on Frolicking Creatively (and Mindfully) into Fall on Monday, September 15 at 9pm ET.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 131st edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a mini must-have yoga sequence for the girl on-the-go. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog.
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Join me for workshops and book signings in San Francisco in July, Lexington in October, Denver in January. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Mentoring: Interested in diving deeper into hip and tranquil topics 1:1 with moi via e-mail, phone or in-person? If so, view all the scoop here.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 130th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a return interview with John Strelecky, author of The Big Five for Life: Leadership's Greatest Secret, plus more inspiration that follows plus yummy tunes from a Tranquil Space yogi. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog.
Off the Mat: According to Gannett Media (USA TODAY...), John "has put his finger on the pulse of the world."
He is the author of several acclaimed books and CDs, including The Big Five for Life - Leadership's Greatest Secret, The Why Café, and Life Safari. His works have been translated into 17 languages and been best sellers around the world.
In 2007, John was honored alongside Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong, Deepak Chopra, and Tom Peters as one of the 100 Most Influential Thought Leaders in the field of leadership and personal development.
He holds a masters degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Business – and has provided guidance to leaders around the world regarding what great leadership is and how it drives profitability.
When he isn’t writing or speaking, John spends extensive time traveling. He and his wife’s longest trip was a nine-month backpacking adventure circumnavigating the globe. He has taken additional extended trips to the Amazon Basin, Yucatan Peninsula, and China.
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Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Celebrate a WHOLE week in Costa Rica August 30-September 6. Join me for workshops and book signings in San Francisco in July, Lexington in October, Denver in January. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Mentoring: Interested in diving deeper into hip and tranquil topics 1:1 with moi via e-mail, phone or in-person? If so, view all the scoop here.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 129th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a must-have pose in On the Mat, a muse on living with love in Off the Mat, and we’ve got Omwork for you too. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog. On the Mat: Practice ahimsa
Off the Mat: Living with Love
say thank you, offer a gesture of kindness, give a compliment, make dinner, bake cookies, set boundaries, say "yes!," touch someone on the arm when speaking, give a homemade gift, eat off your fancy china, go to art exhibits, surround yourself with fresh flowers, always remember birthdays, practice ahimsa, watch your tongue, explore patterns, write out your thoughts, listen to inspiring music, watch movies that make you smile, don chic togs, indulge in bamboo sheets, have lucky bamboo on your desk, light candles, create ambiance with lamps, frame your favorite art postcards, observe your self talk and be gingerly, Omwork: To encourage a sense of diving deeper into today’s podcast, I will post Omwork relating to this segment on our HTC forum. Please connect with fellow HTCs there and play with the following:
1. What does love mean to you? 2. How can you add love into your daily interactions with others? 3. How can you practice more self-love?
Signature Style: Add a splash of color to your summer hair
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Celebrate a WHOLE week in Costa Rica August 30-September 6. Join me for workshops and book signings in Ft. Lauderdale in June, San Francisco in July, Lexington in October. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Au Revoir: Thanks for joining me for the 129th edition of the HTC podcast. To close out the show, we’re playing Hiding Place by Rhian Sheehan, courtesy of PromoNet.
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Bonjour! Welcome to the 128th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a must-have pose in On the Mat, an interview with Joy Wujek on the beauty of tea in Off the Mat, and we’ve got Omwork for you too. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog. On the Mat: mountain pose
Off the Mat: Interview with Joy Wujek. After retiring from a 23 year career as a regional director of food service for large corporations, Joy pursued her passion for tea. She founded Mootz Run, Ltd., a tea shop in Central, Ohio, www.petaliteas.com, an online shop for tea lifestyle products, Petali Teas Wholesale and Tea Design (www.teadesign.biz), a home party business, which was featured in Tea Time Magazine. Joy is a graduate of Northwood University, Midland, Michigan. Her background includes interior design, hospitality and business management and culinary arts. Joy has drawn inspiration from travels to Asia, Europe and South America and has been enriched by many cultures. Joy conducts food and tea related workshops for organizations, colleges and Faire la Cuisine cooking school.
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Celebrate a WHOLE week in Costa Rica August 30-September 6. Join me for workshops and book signings in Ft. Lauderdale in June, San Francisco in July, Lexington in October. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Bonjour! Welcome to the 127th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a must-have pose in On the Mat, seeking tranquility among transitions in Off the Mat, and we’ve got Omwork for you too. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog. On the Mat: savasana
Off the Mat: Spontaneous chat regarding Tranquil Space's (and our) transition with Beau.
Photos include: 1. Chubby Bonnard the Cat (my first born) 2. Me & Louis in the Pink Palace 3. Bamboo Studio stuffed with mama's homemade meditation cushions & bolsters 4. Kapok-stuffed homemade pillows on bench made of barn wood & dressing rooms made of pallets that delivered supplies during the buildout 5. Louis chilling with his beloved teddy 6. Beau, Moi, & Louis at the dog park taking a breather 7. Amy Bertha in front of the tea bar 8. Mum, Marq & Carol chilling on the kapok-filled pillows 9. Gina, Moi, & Louis in the boutique 10. Christy working her chalkboard magic on the "chalkboard loft" 11. Louis with his kapok-filled tail 12. BFF & Moi giggling during a thoughtful surprise visit that involved flowers
Omwork: To encourage a sense of diving deeper into today’s podcast, I will post Omwork relating to this segment on our HTC forum. Please connect with fellow HTCs there and play with the following:
1. What transitions are occurring your life right now? 2. How can you stay tranquil and grounded during the chaos? 3. What new seeds would you like to plant?
Signature Style: NEW gaucho jumpsuit
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Celebrate a WHOLE week in Costa Rica August 30-September 6. Join me for workshops and book signings in Ft. Lauderdale in June, San Francisco in July, Lexington in October. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Omega June 2-6 and Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Bonjour! Welcome to the 126th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a must-have pose in On the Mat, living your yoga with the Jiva Diva in Off the Mat, and we’ve got Omwork for you too. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog. On the Mat: forearm plank
Off the Mat: A life-long obsession with sound has guided Alanna in the direction of music and vibration. Through the teachings of yoga, she has found a home for her spirit within the pulsations of the heart. She was born with a hearing impairment, but was taught from an early age that this is neither a setback or a difference. Instead, it is a way to thrive and shine. And so she has, by becoming a vocalist, a teacher, a musician, a writer, and a lover of music, sound, meditation, inspiration and vibration.
Her teachers are Sharon Gannon and David Life, the creators of Jivamukti Yoga. Sanskrit scholar, Manorama, has graced Alanna with a deeper knowledge of how sound profoundly affects us on an energetic and cellular level. Her practice has also been heavily infused with the love-filled influence of Shri Dharma Mittra, a teacher who revealed the true, devotional nature of asana practice. As an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Instructor, she fills her classes with Nada (sound), Bhakti (devotion) and Shraddha (faith). Her classes feature an unyielding spirit for bringing yoga off the mat and into the world. Her face forward, charismatic style are the perfect platform for classes that are masterful, artistic, and always feature an element of mystery.
While on her world tour, she has lead kirtans (devotional singing concerts) and has also performed with Dave Stringer, who has been a musical inspiration to Alanna. Recently, while in Sydney, Australia, Alanna found herself in the midst of a tidal wave of opportunity, and through riding that wave, she had the opportunity to write, create and produce her newest album, Shine. This inspirational and eclectic album has been described by her friends as 'eclectic lounge pop that you would want to listen to on a coastal drive'. It features several of Australia's prominent jazz musician and other Australian talent. Shine includes 2 songs in Sanskrit for your energetic body, and the rest of the groovy tracks are in english to ignite the soul.
Alanna also produces a yoga podcast called "Yoga Jam with the JivaDiva". The success of the JivaDiva Yoga Jam podcast has given Alanna a worldwide audience of nearly 400,000 listeners. Every week, people tune in to receive the vibrations and teachings of yoga from Alanna. The podcasts feature a variety of formats and include Alanna's own music in the background. Alanna, the JivaDiva has been featured on Lime.com and Body + Soul Magazine.
She teaches at the Yoga Journal Conferences, and is on staff with the Omega Institute. Her article about loving mantras was published in the October 2007 issue of Yoga Journal. In the February 2008 issue of Yoga Journal, she was named as one of Jivamukti Yoga's "Who's Who," and in the March 2008 issue, she was profiled as one of the next generation of yoga teachers shaping yoga's future (see the article).
Alanna's believes that faith (shraddha) can accomplish anything, and that belief has, over and over again, allowed her to achieve the seemingly impossible.
Omwork: To encourage a sense of diving deeper into today’s podcast, I will post Omwork relating to this segment on our HTC forum. Please connect with fellow HTCs there and play with the following:
1. In what ways do you practice your yoga? 2. How can you incorporate it more into your life? 3. What is your favorite sutra?
Signature Style: NEW bamboo legwarmers Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Celebrate a WHOLE week in Costa Rica August 30-September 6. Join me for workshops and book signings in Ft. Lauderdale in June, San Francisco in July, Lexington in October. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Omega June 2-6 and Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Next online creativity circle starts June 9. Our first group of girls graduates this week. GREAT work, ladies! If you finished your OMwork in time, watch for your tranquility toolkit coming via snail mail shortly!
Join us for our next le chic teleclass chat focused on "Sultry Summer Sadhana (spiritual practice)" on Monday, July 15 at 9:00pmET. Details here.
Mentoring: Interested in diving deeper into hip and tranquil topics 1:1 with moi via e-mail, phone or in-person? If so, view all the scoop here.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 125th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a must-have pose in On the Mat, springing with spring in Off the Mat, and we’ve got Omwork for you too. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog. On the Mat: Hip Flow
Omwork: To encourage a sense of diving deeper into today’s podcast, I will post Omwork relating to this segment on our HTC forum. Please connect with fellow HTCs there and play with the following:
1. What are some of your spring goals? 2. What small steps (micromovements as SARK describes them) can you take this season to unleash your creativity? 3. Schedule a "moi day" where all you do all day is EXACTLY what you want to do! Signature Style:Bamboo Capelet
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Celebrate a weekend of all things hip and tranquil in the Catskills of NY THIS weekend, plus a WHOLE week in Costa Rica August 30-September 6. Join me for workshops and book signings in Boulder in April, Ft. Lauderdale in June, San Francisco in July, Lexington in October. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Omega June 2-6 and Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Join us for our next le chic teleclass chat focused on "Blooming in Spring" on Monday, March 31 at 8:30ET. Details here.
Mentoring: Interested in diving deeper into hip and tranquil topics 1:1 with moi via e-mail, phone or in-person? If so, view all the scoop here.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 124th edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a must-have pose in On the Mat, exploring the Slash Effect with Marci Alboher in Off the Mat, and we’ve got Omwork and Savvy Sources for you too. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog. On the Mat: Meditation
Off the Mat: Marci Alboher is a columnist and blogger for The New York Times. Her recently released book, One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success (Warner Books, February 2007), popularized the term "slash" to refer to a new breed of individuals who can't answer, "What do you do?" with a single response. The book and Marci's career insights have been featured throughout the media including the Today Show, MSNBC, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek Magazine, National Public Radio, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Kansas City Star.
Marci is herself a slash. The author/journalist/speaker began her career in law after graduating from The University of Pennsylvania and American University's Washington College of Law. After nearly ten years of practice, she used her law background as a springboard to a second career as a journalist.
Her articles have appeared in numerous national publications including: Time Out New York, Travel and Leisure, Marie Claire, The Chronicle of Philanthropy and Legal Affairs, covering such topics as workplace issues, entrepreneurship and travel. A regular contributor to The New York Times since 2001, she currently writes the Shifting Careers column and blog.
A popular teacher at the New York Writers Workshop, where she sits on the executive committee, Marci helps novices break into journalism and coaches a select group of experienced nonfiction writers to the next level. Marci is also a sought-after speaker on workplace trends, career advice, and writing.
Marci lives in New York City with her beau, Jay, an entrepreneur/designer.
Omwork: To encourage a sense of diving deeper into today’s podcast, I will post Omwork relating to this segment on our HTC forum. Please connect with fellow HTCs there and play with the following:
1. What are your various slashes? 2. How do you blend your numerous interests? 3. How can you incorporate the teacher, speaker, consultant, and writer titles into what you do?
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Celebrate a weekend of all things hip and tranquil in the Catskills of NY in March, plus a WHOLE week in Costa Rica August 30-September 6. Join me for workshops and book signings in Denver in April, Ft. Lauderdale in June, Lexington in October. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Omega June 2-6 and Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Join us for our next le chic teleclass chat focused on "Blooming in Spring" on Monday, March 31 at 8:30ET. Details here.
Mentoring: Interested in diving deeper into hip and tranquil topics 1:1 with moi via e-mail, phone or in-person? If so, view all the scoop here.
Au Revoir: To close out the show, we’re playing Seeing Myself by Sham Mohan from Promonet. You can find where to get more of their music at bkpublications.com.
Thanks for joining me for the 124th edition of the HTC podcast.
You don't need an iPod to listen to the podcast! Click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes!
Off the Mat: John P. Strelecky is the International Best-Selling author of The Why Cafe, and now a highly sought after Inspirational Keynote Speaker. Through his writings and subsequent appearances on television and radio, he has positively impacted the lives of millions of people.
He has had the pleasure to share the best seller list with some of his own favorite writers, including, Mitch Albom (Tuesdays With Morrie/The Five People You Meet in Heaven), Thomas Friedman (The World is Flat), Malcolm Gladwell (Blink/The Tipping Point), and Steven D. Levitt/Stephen J. Dubner (Freakonomics).
In addition to being translated into seventeen languages and sold in over forty countries, John’s inspirational book has been distributed to employees of numerous companies including IBM, American Express, Boeing, American General Finance, USANA Health Sciences, Romano’s Macaroni Grill, and others. It has also been made required course reading at universities around the country such as the University of Wisconsin colleges.
In their story about him, Gannett Media (USA TODAY…) stated that John “has put his finger on the pulse of the world.” Both domestically and internationally he is often compared to Paulo Coelho, the inspirational best selling Brazilian author most known for his classic – The Alchemist. RBA Libros in Barcelona, Spain called John’s work “The Alchemist for the 21st century. A little jewel that will change the life of millions of people.”
John has spent extensive time traveling the world. His longest trip was in 2002 when he and his wife spent nine months backpacking more than 70,000 miles (almost three times the circumference of the earth) as they covered the globe on just $40 per day. He has taken subsequent extended trips to the Amazon Basin, Yucatan Peninsula, and China.
John currently lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife Cindy Xin Zhao.
Savvy Sources: thelifesafari.com sixthandi.org: washingtonians, come meet john on wednesday, april 30 at 7pm! Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Celebrate a weekend of all things hip and tranquil in the Catskills of NY in March, plus a WHOLE week in Costa Rica August 30-September 6. Join me for workshops and book signings in Denver in April, Ft. Lauderdale in June, Lexington in October. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Omega June 2-6 and Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Mentoring: Interested in diving deeper into hip and tranquil topics 1:1 with moi via e-mail, phone or in-person? If so, view all the scoop here.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 122nd edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a must-have pose in On the Mat, Being Succulent with SARK in Off the Mat, and we’ve got Omwork and Savvy Sources for you too. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog. On the Mat: Pigeon
Off the Mat: SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is the best-selling author and artist of 14 books, and creator of hundreds of products. She is the founder of Planet SARK, her company that creates products and services to inspire people to think and live more creatively. She is an acclaimed speaker and transformational teacher, and is featured in the PBS series; "Women of Wisdom and Power." Visit PlanetSark.com or call SARK's Inspiration Phone Line at 415-546-3742.
Omwork: To encourage a sense of diving deeper into today’s podcast, I will post Omwork relating to this segment on our HTC forum. Please connect with fellow HTCs there and play with the following:
1. How can you change your life without getting out of bed? 2. What are some micromovements you can take today? 3. How can you make your life more succulent?
Soirees, Chats, Booksignings & Retreats: Celebrate a weekend of all things hip and tranquil in the Catskills of NY in March, plus a WHOLE week in Costa Rica August 30-September 6. Join me for workshops and book signings in Denver in April, Ft. Lauderdale in June, Lexington in October. In addition, we've got a week of hip and tranquil chickness at Omega June 2-6 and Kripalu August 10-15. Details for all special events at kimberlywilson.com. I hope we'll get to connect!
Join us for our first online creativity circle launching TOMORROW February 25 and our next le chic teleclass chat focused on "Blooming in Spring" on Monday, March 31 at 8:30ET. Details here.
Mentoring: Interested in diving deeper into hip and tranquil topics 1:1 with moi via e-mail, phone or in-person? If so, view all the scoop here.
Bonjour! Welcome to the 121st edition of the Hip Tranquil Chick podcast: a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.
Today’s menu features a must-have pose in On the Mat, Being a Spiritual Cowgirl in Off the Mat, and we’ve got Omwork and Savvy Sources for you too. View our shownotes at hiptranquilchick.com/blog. On the Mat: Malasana
Off the Mat: Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative religions and mysticism who's spent the last dozen years traveling the world exploring spirituality --from whirling with Sufi dervishes to meeting the Dalai Lama on her 21st birthday; from taking the host from a Croatian Catholic mystic who had the stigmata (truly) to having life-altering visions with a shaman, and just about everything in between (she now happily deems herself a spiritual cowgirl). Her first book is The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark. Check out serabeak.com and spiritualcowgirl.com.
Omwork: To encourage a sense of diving deeper into today’s podcast, I will post Omwork relating to this segment on our HTC forum. Please connect with fellow HTCs there and play with the following:
1. How can you ritualize your life? 2. Do you graze the spiritual buffet? 3. Practice "peeling your onion" to explore who you really are.
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