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Wanderlust Yoga Festival

Wanderlust Yoga Festival: Yoga meets Music, Nature, Breath, while creating Divine Energy. Wanderlust: a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. Yoga: a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplins for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate …

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Global Yoga Day, with Love from LA

  This past Saturday, 100 Yoga studios from around the World participated in Room to Read’s “Global Yoga Day”, raising money for Girl’s Scholarships in India (costs 250$/year to support a girl). Our LA Chapter secured 2 studios within a block from each other in Santa Monica. I truly felt that Karmic Vibration from the …

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Namaste India! Global Yoga Day.

Imagine a day this Summer where individuals from all over the world come together. Quiet their minds. Send all their Positive Energy to one cause. A cause which encourages Girl’s Education & Gender Equality. Feel that Karmic vibration. Let’s do it. Dear fellow Yogi, Studio Owner, Friends, Family, my respected Global community, This past weekend …

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This is the Hood I Grew up In: The 626

Most people can’t quite understand or imagine the hood I grew up in. Hacienda Heights? San Gabriel Valley? “Is that like.. San Bernardino?? Umm like Pomona?” It’s the same as explaining how to pronounce my last name. I’ll just remain quiet and let you figure it out. But thankfully to the Fung Brothers, they’ve made …

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Best Chinese Food East of Downtown Los Angeles

Where does one go to find the best Chinese Food in Southern California? Perhaps even in the US? It is arguably in the area I grew up in: the San Gabriel Valley! You can forget about China Town in Downtown Los Angeles as most Chinese people find the food greasy and un-authentic. To find the most …

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Bravo’s new show: “Shahs of Sunset”

I’m sitting here in “Tehrangeles” watching the newest reality show, “Shahs of Sunset”. Westwood is the home of UCLA & the largest Persian population outside of Iran. How convenient as I nibble on ‘Sangak’ (a wheat-sourdough flat bread known to be Iran’s national bread) dipped in ‘Maast-o Moussir’ (yogurt with shallots) and Ghormeh Sabzi. My …

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