Irene Au

Earlier this week I received a message from a young designer asking for advice on how to land her dream job.  With her permission, I'm ...

It's no secret that higher education as we know it today is not sustainable.  The cost of going to college is only increasing, and the n...

We just returned from a family trip to the ashram in upstate NY.   Our visit was profound, powerful, and uplifting, in ways that are too dee...

After coming home from teaching an early morning yoga class, my daughter told me she had been taking...

I've been getting enough inquires about my current employment status that it seems a blog post ...

Now that I'm teaching yoga, the topic of yoga comes up in conversation from time to time.  A comment I hear often is "I don't d...

At the Wisdom 2.0 conference last February I spoke about Zen and Design and what it means to design...

We are rereading "The Little Prince" by Antoine De Saint-Exupery during bedtime storie...

Wise thoughts from Sophie: (1) The other day my parents came home bickering about an incident that occurred on their way home with Sophie....

Book I, Sutra 15, "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" Drstanusravika visaya vitrsnasya vasikara samjna vairagyam The consciousness of sel...

My soon-to-be 7 year-old daughter has been subjecting us to reenactments of her lessons from school lately, using the whiteboard in the girl...

A question came up in yoga class about why we always roll to the right after Savasana. It turns out there are a variety of reasons why we r...

I've been taking a yoga teacher training class ( PURE ) through Equinox with Michelle Myhre and Keith Erickson . Both are passionate a...

The other day, Sophie brought home stencils and coloring pages about inventors including George St...

As much as it irks my husband to give our two-year old control of a $300+ digital camera, I love to ...

I normally am not a fan of websites completely built in Flash but Reisenthel's shopping experience makes good use of the technology to c...

I just started taking an improv class at Stanford--the decision to take this class was spontaneous and I hadn't given much thought to w...

When I was a child my most treasured belongings were my Hello Kitty accessories: combs, mirrors, ad...

One of the best meals we had while in China was at a small restaurant called 1931 in Shanghai, in th...

I was struck by how prevalent advertising is in China. There isn't any space that can't be ...

Inspired by the Washington Post article Pearls Before Breakfast (a bit long, but worth the read; you can also catch the video of Joshua Bel...