By Anne Adametz

Read my first time article published in Yoga Chicago here.

The months leading up to Vipassana were filled with a longing for peace, dreading the sit and in awe of the opportunity.  After my first successful, yet grueling Vipassana 10-day, 100 hours of meditation, complete silence, no talking, no reading, no writing, no phone retreat.  The last time I went there weren’t even smart phones.  Last time, I didn’t have an 8 year old son. All in all, this time I was somewhat prepared for the agony of the body and the taming of the

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This spring, I have finally realized that we do not just skip through flowers, expecting to feel light and fresh, like commercials offer.  We just went through a freaking VORTEX, the most intense winter in 30 years, a freezing as we cocooned into a cave and barely made it out alive.  In honor of that FACT, Let’s not lie to ourselves— most of us are haggard. Merle Haggard, and this spring is going to be a doozy.

It’s time to think like the a Chinese Medicine Practitioner, and a Yoga Therapist: spring is not just a rebirth of

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Life-Changing Advice from an
Earthmama Saint
a Corrections Officer
& a Yogi

Blissfully aglow in a Christmas barn-themed store, my son and I were searching for the perfect star for our tree when a voice seared ironically, “WHAT IN THE HELL are you DOING?!!”  The yelling was coming from an otherwise lovely young mom who began a tirade of shouting at her two tweens as I shrunk behind an expensive candy-cane forest.  Even if I do my yelling in private, I suppose I belong somewhere on this spectrum of depravity.

Growing up in a household of yellers from

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THE MOMENT
The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,

is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can’t breathe.

No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged

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It’s 2013, and at 39, I’ve learned a thing or 2 of what NOT TO DO when it comes fall/winter.  It’s high time I shared my secrets:
the key here is preventative, or BEFORE you fall into a cold shivering heap in the corner…

Here is a list of the 4 things, as an acupuncturist, mom, wife and busy business owner, I do to get through the winter.

First, UNLEARN something:   Seasonal Affective Disorder is (SAD). S.A.D in Chinese Medicine is called NORMAL because winter is the time of Grief & Fear.  Both emotions are integral and necessary parts of life,

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