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Home Actress Lisa Ray Instagram Photos and Posts – August 2017 Lisa Ray Instagram - Here's what #yoga means to me: Falling in love with myself, and everyplace I thought was unreachable. More than fifteen years of practise and on my best days, when I get on the mat, I'm just a beginner, revelling in dismantling my physical limits- and who I believe I am. Posing post two consecutive classes at my new yoga studio @yogauphk in the new 'hood. Wearing @satva_india, all organic, all sattvic. DB North Plaza

Lisa Ray Instagram – Here’s what #yoga means to me: Falling in love with myself, and everyplace I thought was unreachable. More than fifteen years of practise and on my best days, when I get on the mat, I’m just a beginner, revelling in dismantling my physical limits- and who I believe I am. Posing post two consecutive classes at my new yoga studio @yogauphk in the new ‘hood. Wearing @satva_india, all organic, all sattvic. DB North Plaza

Lisa Ray Instagram - Here's what #yoga means to me: Falling in love with myself, and everyplace I thought was unreachable. More than fifteen years of practise and on my best days, when I get on the mat, I'm just a beginner, revelling in dismantling my physical limits- and who I believe I am. Posing post two consecutive classes at my new yoga studio @yogauphk in the new 'hood. Wearing @satva_india, all organic, all sattvic. DB North Plaza

Lisa Ray Instagram – Here’s what #yoga means to me:
Falling in love with myself, and everyplace I thought was unreachable. More than fifteen years of practise and on my best days, when I get on the mat, I’m just a beginner, revelling in dismantling my physical limits- and who I believe I am.
Posing post two consecutive classes at my new yoga studio @yogauphk in the new ‘hood.
Wearing @satva_india, all organic, all sattvic. DB North Plaza | Posted on 24/Aug/2017 16:00:19

Lisa Ray Instagram – On Steroids: you are HUNGRY ALL THE TIME. When Dr. Ahmed Galal, my Hematologist at PMH gave me my first cycle of meds, he capped his recommendation off with a charming gesture that meant: Beware of sweets. Well. Sweet things aren’t the only temptation. Every cycle of treatment, I’m on Dexamethasone for four days on, then four days off. Who knew it would turn me into a free range chicken, pecking the landscape freely. I find it distracting to walk down my street without stopping for a nibble at the Pie Shack, scoping some sushi or sampling up kimchi and eggs. I’m currently obsessed with pepperettes. I had a Gollum-worthy breakdown at the counter recently when I found out they haven’t been restocked. So I’ve always been fond of food, fought my battles with food (having been a model) and finally at 37 discovered balance. Until the steroids hit that is. Then I see a plate of Halibut and Fries and my stomach goes: THAT IS MINE. I know I should be doing other things. Like, uh…healing. But so far I’ve kept up a punishingly normal schedule, even during treatments. I take meetings, write, sign contracts, teach yoga, buy a house, begin to renovate said house. It’s the covert type ‘A’ in me. My day job of manufacturing an alternative reality for a role have also come in handy. But I know I’m not trusting the situation. I’m treating my battle like its inconvenient, managing the stage like a tyrannical Bollywood choreographer, but worst of all, I’m not looking it in the eye. I’m letting the situation tyranise my heart. I need to ask for help and support. They say, name it, then you can recognise it. Then deal with it. Yup. In time. Back to Life on Steroids. The wetsuit. It’s an entirely unique experience. When I’m on steroids, I can feel my skin stretch and expand and move in ways and sensations I haven’t felt before. It can be fascinating. I bloat up to three times my normal ’size’. It’s like putting on a wetsuit. Except its kinda permanent. Until you stop taking the ‘roids. Then I deflate again. Now all this time, I understand the meds are doing their work. I can feel it. I call it Gently Carbonating.Except it feels like I have fleas.
Lisa Ray Instagram – Eight years ago I embarked on a health odyssey I chronicled in a blog called #TheYellowDiaries. A lot has changed, both in myself and the world. I think it’s time to revisit #TheYellowDiaries and share some of the words here both to remind myself and connect with you from the deepest part of myself. #TheYellowDiaries FROM THE MARROW September 7, 2009 (Cont’d) I believe. But right now I’m a Cancer intern, covert social watcher and I’m doing all this against the backdrop of deciding whether to appear at the Toronto International Film Festival and wondering if I should have cancelled that meeting with that director while bloated up on my ‘roids’ or I should have just come clean. ‘Yes- I have cancer. The meds shift the shape of my body in ways I can’t predict- but I can still perform torridly well and are looks really still that important in showbiz anyways? I have so much more to say now than ever before…’ Should have said it. Didn’t. But I’m writing this blog. I’m not sure why and that’s probably the best beginning. Many people become members of the cancer club. Loads of artists struggle with a the capricious nature of our business. There’s lots of ‘coming home’ stories out there. Maybe I’m just finally listening to my marrow. I asked around if I should speak openly about getting diagnosed recently with Multiple Myeloma. Some advised me to keep my ‘condition’ a secret as it could negatively affect my career. Buh? I’m plumper, redder, more energetic and wily than ever before- Kiss me like I’ve been kidnapped! Tara Maclean, one of my closest friends talked about how the role of an artist is to use every experience- especially the painful ones- and transform them by sharing. Laura Simms my NY based professional Story teller/surrogate jewish mother highlighted the ‘pathology of perfection’ which we suffer from in this age. How celebrity culture and media create unrealistic expectations in ourselves and others and how perhaps sharing my experiences in preparing for the Toronto Film Festival juxtaposed with my ongoing chemotherapy and treatments could inform and loosen these expectations. Image @farrokhchothia

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