Being human
and life's little mysteries

Monday, October 10th was World Mental Health Day. The stigma around mental health, its causes and treatments, and how the stigma itself...

…but the real winning is in having the courage to get wet. Bhagavan Das once told me ‘Life is messy, you’ve got to roll your sleeves up...

Most of us have regular opportunities to break out of our comfort zone, a chance to try something new. Whether that is waking up a little...

During the course of August month took time to recover from spinal surgery, resting near a pond that is connected to a river which opens...

It has been three years to the day that I had a liver transplant. This day will forever be imbued with meaning for me, and around this...

As I studied the river, I could not help but notice the contribution of the various dams to the river’s movement. When the journey of the...

It all started with my increasing frustration and impatience in getting to know my new body since my liver transplant. The liver is an...

(If you don’t wish to read this post in entirety, please do watch the video below) Yoga can sometimes appear to be a bit like a slippery...

Sometimes it’s good to take a pause. A pause to clean up shop, so to speak (the body and mind where we live and work); to reflect on why...

Today’s practice, the first of yoga challenge 2014, was at Triyoga Primrose Hill with Mimi Kuo-Deemer. The class was busy with about 20...

After eight weeks in the hospital recovering from a liver transplant, I’ve finally been discharged and have begun to take stock of who I...

Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform — do that, O son of Kuntī,...

PYS III.24 Maitri Adishu Balani Through friendliness, kindness and compassion, strength and success will come. Since I’ve been in the...

samniyama-indriya-gramam / sarvatra sama-buddhayah te prapnuvanti mam eva / sarva-bhuta-hite ratah Those who are able to control their...

Today is my one month liver transplant anniversary. It is also the first time in a month that I have stepped outside of the hospital for...

You can’t always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need. The Rolling Stones Often in life...

All in all, today was a pretty good day. Since about midnight last night I was what hospital folk call “null by mouth”‘, when the patient...

The first time I ever heard of the term Pain Management was February 2013, when I was lucky enough to meet my current Hepatologist. I had...

I have been crying lately primarily due to the amazement of life and death: the wonderment of feeling Love as purely and simply as I do...

I imagine there is a certain set of emotions that come with receiving an organ transplant from someone who has lost their life, and a...