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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

Taste-test Tuesdays: The Best Winter Butternut Soups for the Discerning Butternut-case

Growing up in New England I have developed a very dysfunctional relationship with the winter. I try to love it, I really do. I annually embrace the changing colors of fall, the first flake of snow, the smell of firewood burning from neighborhood chimneys, the quiet crunching sound of snow beneath fa
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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

Wandering Lotus’ Holiday Gift Guide!

So it’s down to the wire for most of us and our holiday shopping, and when shopping for that sustainability-loving yogini or yogi in your life, you may be stumped. Luckily, I thought ahead and brought back an entire Indian bazaar in two frame packs from India to give away as presents (I still can’t
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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

Mark your Calendars: December 20th!

To all you in the North Shore/Boston area of Massachusetts: Put a little Soul in your Solstice this winter… Please join me for a FREE Yoga Class next Sunday, December 20th at 3:30 pm at GReen Tea Yoga Studio in Salem. Here are the details: FREE SOLSTICE YOGA CLASS, Sunday December 20th 3:30-5:30pm W
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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

Walt Whitman’s Yoga

I received an amazing parcel in the mail a few days ago from SCOTLAND, no less, and immediately knew from where it came. My dear friend Lesley, a fellow Himalaya Yogini from my teacher training program had sent it.  She is an incredible force of a woman; a massage therapist, artist, dance teacher an
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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

New Beginnings: Back From India!

Namaste All! So this blog has taken a short hiatus due to my recent trip to India. I spent the past few months living on the gorgeous beaches of Goa, India studying yoga with the Himalaya Yoga Valley. I received my 200-hour Hatha  Yoga teacher certification after lots of blood, sweat and many many m
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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

Do you know the Muffin Woman?

How do you make a healthy muffin that doesn’t taste like cardboard? Ask a Freyer… To keep with the family theme of this week, I want to showcase another talent in my family…cooking. Cooking is also an extraordinary talent honed by the women in my family, and mostly all of our bonding happens over a
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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

Bodies in Motion: A Freyer Family Affair

So I didn’t get a chance to post yesterday. I was a little distracted while visiting my Aunt Linda and my cousins Heidi, Petra and Christian in Wilton and Fairfield Connecticut. Heidi and Linda just opened up a new pilates, ballet and yoga studio in Fairfield called “Pirouette, Pilates and More“. Mo
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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

Yoga Pose of the Week: “Just Dance” in Natarajasana

So I’m heading down to Connecticut today to visit my Aunt and cousins. My cousin Heidi and my Aunt Linda have been running very successful dance studio in Connecticut called Ballet Ecole for many years, and have recently opened a new studio named “Pirouette, Pilates and More“. Both are classically t
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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

Bomb and Bloom: Seed bombs help those with a ‘black thumb’ go green!

Okay so I must admit, I am the anti-gardener. In fact, I believe I repel all plant life forms to the point where flower buds snap shut at the site of me.  However, I still hold this insatiable dream that one day I will be able to create and maintain a little Eden of my [...]
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Wandering Lotus · 2Y ago

Yoga Pose of the Week: Fly like an Eagle in Garudasana

As promised, this week I’m bringing you the “King of all Asanas” according to B.K.S. Iyengar… Eagle Pose, or Garudasana (sometimes spelled Garundasana) Much to many yogi and yogini’s surprise…Garudasana doesn’t actually translate to “Eagle”… Garuda actually translates to something along the lines of
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