If You Want To Heal, Find Water
Where did our water come from? One theory is from comets and asteroids nearly 4 billion years ago. A more recent theory is that most of…
Author Chris Armstrong
Chris Armstrong
Chris is currently a certified yoga therapist and formerly a lawyer who likes people, writing, making things and foraging, because it’s all yoga all of the time.
Here’s the Tea!
The Benefits Of Pine Needle Tea
The Benefits Of Pine Needle Tea
Need a good reason to get outside? How about identifying trees, collecting pine needles and making yourself some tea? In Emily Leikam’s article for Kuhl which,…
Grow Your Own!
Winter Vegetable and Herb Gardening
Winter Vegetable and Herb Gardening
When the snow flies—and it will—my eyes get hungry for green. And lucky for us, there are many ways grow things over the winter with the…
Sing To Your Plants
The relationship between people, plants and sound is as old as people (plants were here first). Native Hawaiians sing sacred songs to help plants grow large…
Turning Passion Into Business
So, you love making earrings with a message (looking at you, Glamoross), or watercolors (hello, Bravery in Bloom) or doing yoga therapy (that’s me) . .…
Winter Fun for Everyone
Southeast Minnesota’s Cold-Weather Offerings
Southeast Minnesota’s Cold-Weather Offerings
Isn’t summer in Minnesota glorious? When I decided to make friends with winter too, it was easier than I thought! “There is no bad weather, only…
Forest Bathing
Keep your clothes on! Here, bathing implies immersion of another sort. Why? Research shows that forest bathing can: improve your mood, cognition and immune system function …
Night Sky
Cultivating Awe
Cultivating Awe
Want to improve your mood and health? Want to be more satisfied with your life, think more critically, decrease materialism? To feel like you have more…
The Best Is Yet to Be
Experiencing Renewal in Retirement
Experiencing Renewal in Retirement
When you picture yourself in retirement, what do you see? Are you and your preschool grandson scouring the Florida wetlands for alligators? Are you sipping coffee…