Yiska's blog

So this week I reset my intention and commitment to move my body every day. As a form of nourishment I set out to feed myself movement daily in some form or another beyond simply walking to and from the subway. Read more

A friend contacted us a few weeks ago deeply disturbed by the weight she'd gained since the birth of her last child. Mostly she had a desire to get herself to the gym more often, but repeatedly came up with reasons why not. She would go one or two times one week, then skip it the next. Read more

With the arrival of the new edition of our workbook Transformative Nutrition, I'm thinking it's time for me to jump in and go through the 8 week course again. And I'm excited for the reminder of what matters, of what helped me lose 70 lbs. Because I am not a nutrition expert or weight-loss master here, though I teach and coach people, I am more accurately a practitioner, in on-going practice. Read more

 When I start working with people and ask what it is they want to change about their relationship with food, it's always interesting to hear people express their desire to not care about it. They are sick of being obsessed, of thinking about food so much. What I've found though is that thinking about something that affects me as much as food is not a bad thing. Read more