Finding a Quiet Still Space at MD Anderson’s Integrative Medicine Center
Last week I presented a workshop for the faculty and staff at MD Anderson’s Integrative Medicine Place of Wellness. It was one of those workshops that even though I knew my content (like the back of my hand)– I was a little nervous as I glanced around the room. It was a good-sized room filled up with really intelligent people, and all who were experts in my subject matter!

Famous yogi Vanda Scaravelli

Before I had much time to ponder being nervous, I was up in front of the group talking about my connection with Lorenzo Cohen, the head of the Integrative Medicine Department. Lorenzo and I serendipitously met through a mutual friend when I moved to Houston about 8 years ago. When we were introduced, neither one of us realized we had a common denominator. Then through conversation it came to light that we shared a similar feeling about a famous yogi– one of my most inspirational yoga teachers, Vanda Scaravelli. Vanda Scaravelli happens to be Lorenzo’s grandmother! Vanda was the inspiration for my beginning stages of studying yoga while I lived in London. She wrote the brilliant book Awakening the Spine, which still stays near my bedside table. [Read more...]