Who Are You?

This is a question I ask every day at Yoga with Nitya Summer Camp for Kids and Teens – Who are you? It’s a deep question to ask someone who is 6 or 9 or 14 years old. Even adults will answer, though, in a similar way. We answer with our name, that we are a boy or a...

Feng Shui for the New Year 2014 Green Horse

2014 Year of the Green Horse January 31st 2014 – February 18, 2015   Thursday January 16th ends the Year of the Water Snake opening a space for us to prepare for the New Year. January 16th – 30th is your window of opportunity for making all of your Feng Shui for the...

Finding an Asperger’s Family

As my teenage daughter parades around the living room wearing a plastic Viking helmet and donning red round hippy sunglasses dancing to music, I look to see my boyfriend’s son laughing hysterically at nonsensical YouTube videos and I think, “This is perfect.” I have...

Nitya’s Chili

Favorite Chili Recipe for Fall and Winter Days 3 cans of kidney beans 3 – 4 cups of brown rice 3 local green peppers (I freeze roasted peppers from summer and they work beautifully) 1 local onion 3 cloves of local garlic ——————- Sautee diced onion, diced pepper and...

Fall Soup – Shitake Mushroom Kale

Large pot with a drizzle (2 tblsp) olive oil add 4 large cloves of garlic crushed (not the whole bulb, just the clove pieces) Brown and deglaze the pan with a shot of red wine, scrap briskly to remove garlic stuck to bottom of pan to create a richer broth Add a pound...