At 35, I had my first mammogram. It was clean as a whistle. At 36, I was diagnosed with three cancerous tumors in my right breast, two of which were larger than 2.5 centimeters. None of the three tumors were detectable by mammogram - even after I was diagnosed and...

By now, we've all seen the above photo of Jon Gosselin practicing yoga, and in particular, Jon Gosselin practicing Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, or as it is more commonly known, "Upward Facing Dog Pose", or as I will be calling it here: "Updog". Updog is...

I have seen "Yoga" on Facebook, but I've never friended it (even though Facebook keeps nagging me to do so). So, I don't know if it's ever done one of those "25 Random Things" things. If it has, it probably talked about how enlightened it is, and how awesome it...

When it comes to yoga, I've been both teacher and student. When I became a yoga teacher, I thought that I would be enhancing my experience as a student. Likewise, I assumed that my experience as a student would make me a better teacher. What I have found is that...

When I first came to yoga, it was as a breast cancer survivor.

Technically speaking, it was as a breast cancer patient, since I had already had my double mastectomy with reconstruction and was then smack in the middle of six months of chemotherapy and hadn't even started my...

I tried to believe in nothing. And I failed. It was simply too difficult for me to let go of a belief in God that is as innate to me as the English language.

I was born into a secular Jewish family. We observed the holidays as cultural events. The...

Ashtanga yoga (a type of traditional Indian yoga that is based on the linking of breath with movement) is notorious for its rules. From which days on which to practice which poses, to not daring to show up in the yoga room while menstruating, to when you should exhale and...

Have you ever taken a yoga class, only to walk out bewildered at what the teacher was trying to say? And I'm not talking about what she/he was saying in Sanskrit. That part, you understood. It's the English that threw you. Do you have "yoga friends" on Facebook? Friends you...

I don't have an eating disorder.

I just take a break from eating every so often.

You know, like, after I've eaten too much on vacation. Or, say after the Christmas holiday season. Like Gwyneth does. That's when I break out the Maple Cayenne Lemonade and substitute that...

I was feeling poorly this weekend, and so, for once in a long while, I had the luxury of outsourcing all of my chauffeuring duties to the husband and lying in bed with the newspaper. Like everyone else with access to any form of media, I read about Bernie Madoff....

In my opinion, ALL diet crazes are inherently evil. Basically, I don't believe in dieting at all. I believe in eating right for your body, which includes eating no more than your body needs to maintain a healthy weight. At the age of 43, I've pretty much figured out what...

Well, I think it is safe to say that by now, we've all been downsized.

Even if you still have your job, even if you invest your funds under your mattress rather than in the stock market, you're feeling the effects of our country's current fiscal crisis. Maybe you...

You know who you are. You never do less than two things at once. You read while you eat. You check your email while you're on a conference call. You're restless, and it works for you because you get things done. And when it comes to calming your mind, you...

(Lauren Cahn is busy applying to grad school this week, so she asked her dog, Lewis, to pinch hit. Lauren asked him to write about "Doga" - partner yoga, where your dog is your partner. But he seems to have come up with...

In some yoga circles, it is traditional to perform 108 "Sun Salutations" upon the change of seasons, that is, on the first day of summer (the Summer Solstice), the first day of winter (the Winter Solstice), the first day of spring and the first day of autumn (the Vernal and...

Do you want to be lose weight? Because chances are, you probably do. Let's face it. You do. Even if you don't need to, you probably want to. And apart from those who simply want to, there is a huge population of people that actually need to.

Now, maybe I'm...

Do you know someone who suffers from money-rexia?

"Money-rexia" is characterized by the belief that one can never be rich enough and the concurrent and irrational fear that one will become destitute, notwithstanding substantial evidence to the contrary. Money-rexics tend to be individuals who have amassed enough wealth to...

If you watch Mad Men, or even Saturday Night Live, then you know that Donald Draper, nee Dick Whitman, knows how to pick up women. He knows how to play his career cards right. Hell, he somehow knows how to turn pissing his own pants into surviving a...

I know that many women consider John McCain's having chosen Sarah Palin as a running mate to be an insult to women. You know, throw any woman at them, and they'll vote for her ticket. And if you read my Palin Fatigue ...

Who would ever have thought that the marriage wouldn't last?

I mean, I saw Truth or Dare -- you know, that documentary that had cameras following Madonna around during her Truth or Dare Tour, allowing us to take a peak at her relationships with her dancers, her then boyfriend...