Recently I spent some time at an ashram. I could fill a book with that experience and everything I got from it, but I’m going to focus on...

This year instead of carving pumpkins for Halloween, I created a Day of the Dead altar. I lived in Mexico for five years and always...

Here’s a confession: I haven’t attended AA meetings regularly in about a decade. This is a little hard to admit, since my book is all...

First of all, almost everything I want to say is in this article from The Atlantic: Bring Back the Nervous Breakdown, but I’ll say it all...

Two months ago, almost to the day, my digestive system shut down. Eventually, the pain became extreme and I drove myself to the ER. The...

In March of 2020, I had a thriving business. We had hundreds of members on autopay and hundreds of new students coming in every month,...

A little more than a year ago, I sat in a Trader Joe's parking lot, where I bought three weeks of groceries, just in case. No one knew...

Scrolling social media recently, I came across two separate photos of people who have the same profession as me--both yoga studio...

It's month ten of the pandemic, and for the first time, I'm experiencing deep boredom and restlessness. In months 1-2 of the pandemic, I...

THIS IS PART 5 OF 5 POSTS ABOUT BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE YOGA PRACTICE Most challenges and workshops about developing yoga practices begin...

THIS IS PART 4 OF 5 POSTS ABOUT BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE YOGA PRACTICE I know that we have all created endless strategies and goals in...

THIS IS PART 3 OF 5 POSTS ABOUT BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE YOGA PRACTICE One recent morning, I went down to get my coffee and let the dogs...

THIS IS PART 2 OF 5 POSTS ABOUT BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE YOGA PRACTICE Defined succinctly, I think of practice as sacred habits. This is an...

THIS IS PART 1 OF 5 POSTS ABOUT BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE YOGA PRACTICE Background Consider the three states of all matter in the physical...