Feel Good Guru

I’ve taken up painting in the last couple of years. Mostly just to doodle personalized “thank you” cards, but also to use a different part of my creative brain and for the sheer joy of playing with fun colors. It occurred to me the other day as I was slopping paint all over a piece of cardboard, making a mess beyond rescue with too much color, that less is so often more in art.

I’m very attracted to zen-like works with a single color or stroke on a white canvas, yet it’s so difficult to put the brush down after just one stroke, isn’t it? I got to comparing art to life and made the simple connection that in life, as in art, restraint is a powerful tool. As we charge full steam ahead into the holidays, restraint can be invoked often in the supreme interest of keeping Santa belly at bay. (more…)

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Love love love this gym with its “whole health” approach to fitness. This is not one of those overcrowded chain fitness clubs with broken equipment and washrooms you wouldn’t dare go barefoot in. The King St. location (455 King St. W) is 15,000 square feet of award-winning design…it’s workout zen for a jet set clientele. The naturally-lit open-concept wood-floored studio has been featured in architectural magazines, and is equipped with state-of-the-art machines. The trainers at Totum are world-class, worth every dime you pay them to make you sweat. (more…)

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Life is good. I’m sitting here post workout with a big fat bowl of Yogi Chai Green and my bare feet in the iSqueez watching my kitty watching hummingbirds in the garden. The wood jasmine has blossomed big time this week and whenever I open the door, an incredible perfume wafts in.

The iSqueez is a foot and calf massager from Brookstone that’s part Jetsonesque, part geriatric device and part home spa. It gets good use in our house. (more…)

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