SOL House Co How to love yourself, even at your worst? Dear Reader, This prompt came to mind at the break of dawn as I was brushing my teeth. As yoga seekers, I don't think we'll ever stop thinking about the self, because the self is the field and the subject of our study. How do you love yourself, even at your worst? Especially at your worst? I think it is easier to love ourselves when we are at our best. When life is going great, and we check the boxes of what is popularly known as success....
24 days ago • 5 min read
SOL House Co Welcome, the heart of Autumn. Dear Reader, September felt like a really long month for me, and in this last week, I’ve found myself already looking forward to its end. It’s interesting how I tend to work my seasons in blocks, as if, by the first of October, life is renewed again. We are finally moving into the heart of autumn, or Sharad Ritu. The Indian autumn season marks the transition from humid monsoon rains to clearer, cooler skies. Here in Singapore, we are seeing slightly...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
SOL House Co There's no such thing as sleep debt. Hey Reader, yes, I said it. There's no such thing as sleep debt according to Ayurveda. The way we think of sleep has been bound to a linear timeline where we assume we could repay our week-long stretch of late nights by sleeping 12 hours on a Saturday. It is not as simple as a late payment of the hours we had forgone in rest in exchange for churning out work. Ayurveda–the traditional healing system of India–sees time as a cyclical rhythm,...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
SOL House Co Begin Again: Feeling fresh for Autumn Dear Reader, How have you been? How is your heart lately? For the past few weeks, I have felt pulled toward the two ends of a spectrum where life has either been overwhelmingly good or overwhelmingly bad. Well, good or bad are relative. And so does feeling overwhelmed. And that could suggest that adapting to the churning of life has been rather sticky for me. For example, I have been wanting to reach out with a proper letter to you using a...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read