Karate has been an interesting journey that perfectly aligned in my life when it needed to. I continue to do yoga as a regular practice and live an active lifestyle. However, when I began Karate, I also found a community, a person who was crazy enough to coach me and a new series of skills…
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I'm an author, yoga teacher and scientist who lives in Canada. I built this website as a portal for sharing, discussion and humor. I welcome inquiries and requests for the TR meditation club.
The Day the World Changed – Living in Washington, D.C. on 9/11
After I finished high school, I didn’t feel ready to enroll in any post-secondary education. I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up and as my eighteenth birthday arrived, I wondered at what point I would be considered ‘grown up’. I hoped it would be in the far distant future. That…
Sleeping At Last
Wander with sunshine, claw through the night Tangled in chaos. Demons in sight Trapped in a memory, nauseous with doubt Every layer we lift, every moment without A sorrow or smile. The empty inside The reasons for seeking; the reasons to hide. Your freedom’s my prison. My throat in a knot Choking on waves…
Karate Everlasting – Reckless Yogi to Reckless Ninja
I have actively participated in some form of athletics throughout my life. I only let go of exercise completely during my pregnancy when it took a hard left, and there was no returning from the pit of darkness and pain. Diving across medical boundaries like a flying squirrel, tormenting even the most experienced neurologists around me;…
Pandemic Amnesia – Commemoration as a Function of Sustainable Recovery
The recovery phase of a pandemic is not well established, there is no manual or existing literature that enables a true level of preparedness or recovery measures for such a large scale, unpredictable event. There is a term coined Pandemic Amnesia that I investigated because I wanted to understand what the recovery from a pandemic…
Ordering 1000 Jumbo Rolls of Toilet Paper
The pandemic was filled with interesting, surprising, and fascinating human behaviour. People hoarded toilet paper, had public freak outs of varying calibres, and witnessed a secondary global disaster called ‘Zoom Fails.‘ During the toilet paper hoarding wave, I chose a more strategic approach instead of fighting off zombies at the grocery store for the last…
Sexual Abuse in Canadian Gymnastics – Battle to Speak
A warning to those who have been sexually violated; please know this article includes references to violence against children. I have finished an eight year court case, preceded by decades of silence. It took most of the energy I had in me to get through it. It was a sexual assault and battery case against…