Personal Development

Are You Living In Quiet Desperation?

by jenny sansouci May 10, 2013
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“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”-Henry David Thoreau The other day in yoga class, one of my teachers brought up the concept of “quiet desperation.” I’ve been thinking about it ever since. He described quiet desperation as something that happens when you “lose [...]

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You’re Living Your Dream, Don’t Miss It

by jenny sansouci April 5, 2013
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Last summer, I left my apartment and life in New York with a heavy heart and ventured out to live in Los Angeles for a few months. Every time I sat in a meditation and asked for guidance on what to do next, I kept getting the message “focus on your healing and everything else [...]

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The Best Way To Attract Love

by jenny sansouci March 8, 2013
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My friend Gabby says this all the time, and I think it’s definitely true. I don’t know if I’m using the correct wording, but the basic idea is this: “Your task isn’t to seek a lover, but to become a lover of life.” Don’t you think it’s super attractive when you meet someone who just [...]

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Is Food Affecting Your Creativity?

by jenny sansouci March 7, 2013
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Last year, I did a 10-day juice cleanse. It was a crazy awesome yet mildly insane experience. At the end of the cleanse, I had firmly decided that food and creativity were deeply linked. In fact, at the time, I thought for sure I was going to write a book on eating for creativity. Maybe [...]

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A Recipe For Success?

by jenny sansouci March 6, 2013
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The other day I reluctantly got on a phone call with an accountant that manages one of my investments, an account I barely ever touch. He scheduled a call with me just to “get my updated facts into their system.” I put off actually getting on the call because I just didn’t think it was [...]

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The Random Reason I Went To Nutrition School

by jenny sansouci February 26, 2013
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I talk to people pretty much daily about my nutrition school, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. It comes up in conversation all the time because it’s shaped my life in so many ways. It’s directly contributed to some of my greatest successes, most enriching personal and business relationships, and, well, this blog itself. The Institute [...]

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10 Minutes of Yoga: The Magic 10

by jenny sansouci February 1, 2013
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A couple of months ago, my life felt very different. Specifically, when I was living in LA, I had a lot of unstructured time, and unstructured time, for me, meant lots of yoga. As long as I got a yoga class in, I really didn’t care what else got accomplished that day. Yoga became my [...]

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How Meditation Changed My Life

by jenny sansouci January 18, 2013
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Guest Post by Ritu Ashrafi I’m fairly new to meditation and have been practicing for less than a year but I can honestly say that meditation changed my life. I see my life as pre-meditation and post-meditation because the difference between the two is staggering. Let me tell you why. I am Ritu Ashrafi and [...]

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A Perspective on Soul Mates

by jenny sansouci January 12, 2013
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Missing someone you can’t contact can be a pretty dead-end feeling. Maybe the person is an ex love, or someone who has passed away, or someone you were once close with who is no longer in your life. It can be really difficult to let go at times, especially when your heart and soul were [...]

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Deepak Chopra’s 10 Keys to Happiness

by jenny sansouci January 11, 2013
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Happiness is one of those things that we tend to think is based on each person’s individual life situation. How much money do we have? Are we in a fulfilling romantic relationship? Do we have the career of our dreams? A great body? Most of us spend a large amount of our lives striving for [...]

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An Open Letter To 2013

by jenny sansouci January 1, 2013
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Dear 2013, Here are my intentions for you. I intend… To practice gratitude and appreciation. To believe that everything is unfolding for my greatest good. To welcome new characters and experiences into my life. To open myself to love, curiosity, meaningful work, pure enjoyment. To allow the path to unfold before me – and to [...]

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May Cause Miracles – Book Launch!

by jenny sansouci December 26, 2012
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Ok, let’s be honest. Well, I’ll be honest. I admit that in my life, when things feel like they’re unmanageable, not good enough, or any other low-level feeling, most of the time, the only thing that’s truly not working is the way I’m thinking. I assume you can probably relate on some level. Personally, I’d [...]

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Ayurveda for Detox

by jenny sansouci December 22, 2012
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I just watched a really cool and interesting video on GaiamTV featuring Dr. John Douillard, one of my favorite teachers from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. He’s an expert on Ayurveda (a traditional form of alternative medicine native to India) and was one of my teachers in Costa Rica. I always learn new gems of [...]

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Titans of Yoga

by jenny sansouci December 14, 2012
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I just finished watching the Titans of Yoga documentary on GaiamTV. When I read the description of the movie, I knew it was right up my alley. Titans of Yoga is about 25 of the most prominent modern figures who practice and teach yoga, meditation, and other mindful practices in the Western culture. They share [...]

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Mark Whitwell: Get Intimate With Life

by jenny sansouci December 4, 2012
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Over the weekend I went to a workshop with master yoga teacher Mark Whitwell at my favorite little yoga/green smoothie spot in San Diego, Hale Holistic. When the workshop started, I got out my pen and notebook, as always, and got prepared to summarize it all for you guys. As Mark started talking, all of [...]

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Blessing Bags for the Homeless

by jenny sansouci November 22, 2012
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Today is Thanksgiving, and in the spirit of giving, I want to share something very special with you, from someone who is very close to my heart. I first met Rachel Johnson in Costa Rica last year at a conference for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Immediately, I felt drawn to her positive energy. It [...]

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21st Century Yoga

by jenny sansouci November 12, 2012
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Last night I went to the book launch party for the newly released 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics & Practice. The book is a compilation of essays examining yoga as it exists today. From the back cover: “Yoga may be rooted in ancient India, but it’s morphed into something new in North America today. Precisely [...]

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Food Addiction: Retrain Your Brain

by jenny sansouci November 1, 2012
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Did you know that the brain has the same chemical reaction to sugary/fatty foods as it does to cocaine or nicotine? According to Dr. Pam Peeke, author of The Hunger Fix, the chemical reaction happens before you even eat the food — all you have to do is think about it! I just watched a [...]

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