Yoga Props vs. Your Ego Some say there are two generations of yoga: one before the widespread use of yoga props, and and one after. Before props hit the mainstream, yoga...
Optimize Your Zoom Yoga Classes Six months ago, who would have thought we’d find ourselves quarantined? The times are challenging us all, one way or another. My yoga studio, Mindful Yoga...
Ways to Navigate Teaching a Mixed-Level Yoga Class How do you keep everyone safe and happy in a mixed-level yoga class? There’s no easy answer. In a recent teacher training, I asked trainees to...
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...
3 Ways to Balance Mind and Body with Ayurveda During the Spring Season There is no better time of year for me than spring! Flowers, fresh air, more sunlight, baby animals, starting the garden, rushing water in the mountains,...
4 Ways to Cultivate a Meditation Practice Meditation ain’t easy. It’s arguable that it’s a whole lot harder than yoga asana practice. When you’re practicing asana, your mind has plenty of sensations to...
Stonehenge: Back Pain Relief Savasana (Relaxation Pose) is a welcome respite, the well-deserved dessert after your asana practice. It’s a time of rest and integration, the time when you get...
Too Much Sitting? Try Standing Poses Here in Utah, we’re nearing the end of another Sundance Film Festival marathon. For years I volunteered for the festival. It was lots of fun, and...
Metta Meditation: Take a Kindness Break In recent years, our lives seem to have gotten harsher. Our culture has factionalized. No one wants to listen to anyone with whom they disagree. Dialog...
Peak Pose: Dhanurasana (Bow Pose) Have you ever felt as if you were stuck to the floor when you practice Bow Pose? You’re not alone. Dhanurasana may not look as complicated...
Yoga Poses for Shoveling Snow Ahhhh … fresh powder. A few days ago, it took me about 25 minutes to dig my car out of the snow and shovel my walks...
Support Your Local Yoga Teacher I feel fortunate—really fortunate. Decades ago, I got to study with yoga luminaries such as Donna Farhi, Judith Hanson Lasater, Elise Miller, Angela Farmer, Aadil Palkhivala,...
3 Yoga Poses for Snowshoeing Snowshoeing allows you to get high above the city to tramp around in fresh powder and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors without the crowds. Of...
Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions? Is the New Year’s resolution a thing of the past? An antiquated practice moving inexorably toward extinction? If you read the numbers, you could easily get...
Supported Bridge Pose: A Holiday Respite Solstice signals the return of light. Even so, it takes until the beginning of January for the days to start getting oh-so-gradually lighter. So we’re still...
Peak Pose: Paschimottanasana When you hear mention of a “peak pose,” what comes to mind? I’m guessing that for most yoga practitioners, peak poses are usually the fancy Instagram-worthy...
Human Hibernation: Yoga for Deep Sleep Right now, much of the world is sleeping. Creatures such as bears, marmots, bats and bees hibernate. Reptiles fall into a state of sluggishness and inactivity...
What Is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is trending these days. Since 2014, mindfulness has made the cover of TIME twice. The practice even has its very own magazine, Mindful, with articles...