hOMnaturale
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Health Coach, Yoga Teacher & Thai Massage Therapist, Writer, Natural Health Educator & Advocate. Sessions in MV at Sea Spa Salon in Edgartown, MA & The Mansion House Health Club in Vineyard Haven. |
| Location | Martha's Vineyard, MA & Wakefield, RI, Southern New England |
| Introduction | I've lived in Martha's Vineyard since Aug. 2015, & native to Rhode Island, I am a New England Transcendentalist at heart, yet have lived in VT, AZ, NM, CA & OR. I'm grateful to my mentors, & experiences: from teaching on the Navajo Rez & in surreal Sedona, AZ, to living on an 85 acre medicinal herb pharm in OR, to visiting Maca farmers in the highlands of Peru, & & Shippipo Indians wild harvesting Una de Gato in the Amazon. I've traveled thru Central America, Europe & Southeast Asia, & yet my greatest adventure has been raising my son mostly solo. Shane has been spending his middle school years with his father, in the Mendonoma, CA Redwoods, yet will be back for High School in NE. He has an interesting bi-coastal hOMe, but to live in different places is never easy without each other. Raising a child with a friend is tough- holding onto the friendship is even tougher. Our relationships matter more than anything in life, with ourselves, each other and nature. Practicing & teaching yoga is my lifeline; nature, writing and photography are my refuge. I work and volunteer in my communities, spreading the virtues of an interconnected, healthy lifestyle. |
| Interests | Yoga & meditation, writing, photography, travel, organic farming, skiing, surfing, hiking, biking, picniking, reading, dancing, movies, and lazing around with the Sunday NY Times and a coconut latte, or the Daily Show on Comedy Central, and always I love connecting with my family and friends face to face with real time hugs, laughter and tears of releasing joy and gratitude. |
| Favorite Movies | PRE 2010: The Visitor, Paris, Grand Turino, Slumdog Millionaire, Sense and Sensibility, Little Women, Shakespeare in Love, Dan in Real Life, Reds, Darjeeling Limited, Once, Laurel Canyon, Elizabeth, Go, Casablanca, Don Juan de Marcos and everything that Johnny Depp, Kate Blanchette and Kate Winslet is in, including the movie Shane and i were in with her as extras (it's a bit intense... Little Children) See if you can spot us. |
| Favorite Music | PRE 2010: Wah! Donna de Lory, Jai Uttah, and other cool yoga music; Mike Arciero's acoustic and electric talent will forever rock my world, Glen Hansard/The Frames, Andy Cubic and Vetiver, John Mayer, Jack Johnson, Bob Dylan, Feist, and many yet to be "discovered" female acoustic singer songwriters, ambient trance and world groove, especially for yoga, classical music (especially Mozart) & bluegrass (especially Seatrain and Alison Krauss). |
| Favorite Books | PRE 2010: Three Cups of Tea, Endurance, Team of Rivals, autobiographies from Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope, to Eric Clapton's and Patty Boyd's, Autobiography of a Yogi, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali, Six Degrees, Poisoned Nation, Silent Spring; all of Jumpa Lahiri's work, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses |
Your pajamas have duckies on them. Why did you switch from choo-choos?
My fave PJ's when I was little were pastel lt. blue and lavender baby dolls. Now I like men's cotton flannels with soft doubled up t's. Duckies or choo choos are optional.