During Yoga Journal’s local conference over the next week, you’ll find combinations worth heading to the Embarcadero for (“yoga + chocolate”) and all-day practice intensives (including Ana Forrests’s “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Hips, Neck, and Shoulders”). Beyond the usual gathering setup of racks of Hatha pants–and I’m one of the guilty ones who trounces around the host hotel ponytailed and basically barefoot–is an evening lecture by author Geneen Roth that I’m sorry to miss:
“The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated or wise or enlightened you believe you are, how you eat tells all. The world is on your plate. When you begin to understand what prompts you to use food as a way to numb or distract yourself, the process takes you deeper into realms of spirit and to the bright center of your own life. Rather than getting rid of or instantly changing your conflicted relationship with food, Women Food and God is about welcoming what is already here, and contacting the part of yourself that is already whole-divinity itself.”
