: About Me

I work as a freelance feature, travel and grant writer. I've written for The Washington Post, The Australian, The Melbourne Age, The Big Issue, The Brunei Times, worldhum.com, Islands Magazine and others, including a web-based travel guide to Melbourne. I write regular feature stories for the Jakarta Globe.

I have a story in The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 from Traveler's Tales.

I started out my career winning a Lonely Planet travel writing contest, and in 2007, shared Runner-Up for Best Travel Series from the North American Travel Journalist's Association.

I divide my time between Bali and Melbourne. I'm working on a book about living and volunteering in Bali for two years. I write a blog about helping to raise my Sumbanese foster daughter.

On Helium, I write primarily for the Health, Travel and Writing channels.

Health & Fitness > Fitness & Exercise Tips Why should I consider yoga?

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Yoga is a series of physical postures practiced using certain breathing methods, in either a flowing or a stationary way. Yoga is growing in popularity and many people now make this ancient health practice a part of their daily routine. BENEFITS OF YOGA Yoga can help lift depression and combat stress naturally. According to Dr. Timothy McCall, Yoga Journal's medical editor, who writes a column on the health benefits of yoga, "Studies have found that yoga reduces levels of cortisol (a stress hormone), which is often elevated in people with [depression]." He says that the combination of stim...

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