This year, can we please just skip the big-box mayhem and instead turn our attention to the incredible family-owned, women-run, and BIPOC-led businesses right here in the Tri-Cities and Vancouver? These businesses are the heart and soul of our community. They’re run by people who know your name, remember your usual order, and genuinely care about whether you’re happy with your purchase.

Yoga and journaling is a combination that is like cookies and cream. Why? Because yoga is more than just a physical form of exercise; it's a journey of self-discovery and personal growth. I love enhancing my personal yoga journey through various methods, one of which is journaling.

A journaling practice can significantly deepen your yoga experience, whether you practice regularly in a studio or at home.

Lunches made, check. Papers filled out, check. Laundry down, check. Helped with homework, check. The list goes on. Our parenting duties together with career responsibilities, relationships with our significant other and family members are continuous, and let’s face it, at times all encompassing. Add on the unpredictability of life – the curve balls. This year is unlike any other faced with a global pandemic. We all share in the trepidation of the unknown.

We may feel small and insignificant when it comes to politics but if we are centred and balanced, then we are able to become stronger and achieve much bigger things. We become focused.

Whenever Fall arrives, I always get inspired to retreat within and introspect on how I want to finish up the year. As Coquitlam is in the northern hemisphere of the planet, we move from Summer into Fall and the energy starts to move from an outward, extroverted, masculine state to an inward, introverted, feminine state.

Welcome to this first blog post! I’m going to be straight out honest with you. This is my eigth attempt at writing this blog post. This made me think, “wow Prem, you’re super judgemental about yourself.”