Baby Mung Bean

Congratulations to Krishna and Ben! They had a baby today! She's a cute little sweetie named Lily!

Yay! I love when nice people have babies!

Photo Shoot

We had a photo shoot for Yoga Phoenix today with our photographer friend, Kim Blake. I'm working on a blog for Yoga Phoenix so we needed some yoga pics for that and I needed new head shots. Satvinder was our model for kids yoga - here are a few of the pics:

Frog Pose...ribbit ribbit

Cat pose from cat-cow

Baby pose - sometimes Satvinder actually sleeps this way

A wiggly little butterfly

We tried to get some new headshots of me - I prefer the shots where Satvinder is with me!

And of course, some had to involve sticking out the tongue!

Psychic Pitaji

Satvinder: Clyde doesn't have a leash.
Pitaji: Ok.
Satvinder: Guess what Clyde doesn't have?
Pitaji: A leash.
Satvinder: HOW did you know that?

It is easy to be psychic to a 4 year old.

Happy Mother's Day!

We are having a mellow day here in hot Phoenix. We went to the Japanese Friendship Garden - which can be quite serene and relaxing, I hear. There's a waterfall and beautiful plants and koi - the sound of trickling water....and in our case, the repetitious whining of "It's too hot! I want to go home. This is boring! I'm thirsty!" The reality of motherhood!




Feeding the koi

You'd never guess this was Phoenix

Pics from the week

Kids wrestling Mangala Sadhu Sangeet after community meal at the ashram


At the Zoo


Baby prairie dogs


Satvinder on the carousel

Flagstaff Weekend

We made a quick trip to Flagstaff last weekend and spent a day at Wupatki Pueblo


Dadaji, Nonni, and Satvinder in one of the ruins

Satvinder pointing to one of the desert dwellers


Close up of who Satvinder was pointing to


This naturally occurring "blow hole" sucks air into the earth at some point in the day and then during other times, it forcefully blows cold air out! I didn't even know such things existed - such a fascinating planet we live on.


Mangala Sadhu Sangeet Singh doing a Marilyn Monroe impression, standing over the blow hole

The Business of Being Born - Part 2

Back in November I posted about the Business of Being Born - a great documentary about birth in this country. Now, not only is it available from Netflix, but you can watch it for free on the internet.

So, if you haven't yet seen it, you can watch it at www.QuickSilverScreen.com.

I hope you'll check it out.

(This is me....struggling with alllll my might to resist getting on my giant soap box to express important issues about prenatal care and birth and why we have to open our eyes and make informed decisions and....oh,oh,oh struggling....Ok - whew! I made it.)

Just watch it. Really. Thanks.