Teaching Yoga: Replenishing Your Energy In the past two weeks the pile of unopened mail in my kitchen has grown taller and more unruly. Every so often I try to neaten...
Patience: A Steady Unfolding Every year since 2014, I’ve had the good fortune to spend 18 days at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. My partner and I attend two back-to-back nine-day...
Yoga and the Unexpected What is it about a yoga and meditation practice that helps us to handle situations that would put many people over the edge? I’ve been practicing...
Stepping Back from Anger Stepping back from anger isn’t easy. When people who you love are taken from life too soon or when life doesn’t go as planned, you can...
Stand TALL I’ve often wondered about my attraction to sunflowers. I think they attract me because they’re tall, bright, beautiful and come in so many varieties, very similar...
Santosha: A Different Holiday Yoga Practice How Practicing Santosha Can Bring the Magic Back I’m not sure when the winter holidays began being equated with stress, but I think I know why....
Compassion: On and Off the Mat How Practicing Yoga Cultivates Compassion It’s a mystery how it happens, but, thanks to the poses that I do on my mat, I can feel a...
Can Yoga Help Us Overcome Fear? Can Yoga Help Us Overcome Fear? I’m not sure when I realized this, but yoga has helped me to overcome many fears—fear of being seen, speaking...
The Season of Generosity ’Tis the Season of Generosity One of my clearest, most nostalgic memories from growing up is that of the excitement of Christmas morning. Our parents would...
What is Iyengar’s Legacy? What is Iyengar’s Legacy and What Will be Yours? September 6th will be the 30th anniversary of my dad’s passing. Taken by a sudden heart attack...
Why Be Mindful? Why Be Mindful? Anything Can Happen Any Time One chilly February day in 1997, I was rushing to a meeting with the founder of the soon-to-be-opened...
Always Remember to Cherish Yourself Cherish Yourself It’s very easy to make other people and their priorities more important than you and your goals. Make sure to hold your own goals,...
Why Things Go Better When You Listen to Your Body Why Things Go Better When You Listen to Your Body Once I started listening to my body (admittedly <1% of the time, especially at the beginning),...
The Power of Generosity A traditional Chinese parable tells the story of an old man who knows he will die soon. Worried about the afterlife, he seeks out the village...
Happy Thanksgivukkah: The Yoga of Cleaning, Sorting and Cooking Happy Thanksgivukkah: The Yoga of Cleaning, Sorting and Cooking I spent a good part of the last few days scrubbing cabinets, amazed at how much sticky...
What Love Looks Like What Love Looks Like This morning as I sat in meditation a stray thought popped into my head seemingly out of nowhere, as most thoughts do....
Share Your Gifts with the World Share Your Gifts with the World Ask for what you want. Think big and ask big. In an infinite world even the largest request is small....
Yoga Dog – The Yoga of Living with a Big, Naughty Dog Yoga Dog – The Yoga of Living with a Big, Naughty Dog I love our dog Shay, who arrived at our front door a little over...