I’m Just Here to Get Lucky – What Your Yoga Teacher Will Tell You, Part 2
This is part 2 of What Your Yoga Teacher Will Tell You, a response to the Smart Money article: 10 Things Your Yoga Teacher Won’t Tell You. Read Part 1. What your yoga teacher won’t tell...
View ArticleAn Open Letter of Grace
One of my favorite authors, Bill Bryson, once wrote: Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn’t easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher...
View ArticleAwareness, Empathy, and Emotions
Here’s one more reason to meditate if you want to rule the world, or like, read and empathize with other people and stuff. The insula and linked circuits activate when you experience strong emotions...
View ArticleWhere Is “Within”, And How Do You Get There?
I’m listening to this audio book called Catching the Big Fish, written and read by David Lynch. (I’m going through this period of looking for inspiration from the Art world, but more on that later.)...
View ArticleThe Day I Did “Real Yoga”
I have had a really hard day of traveling, starting off with a mobile boarding pass crashing, some poor planning on my part, some technology failure, long lines at the airport, missing a flight,...
View ArticleAnnie Wood Besant on the Yoga of Action
I’ve been reading Intro to Yoga by Annie Wood Besant, which consists of four lectures she gave in December 1907, “intended to give an outline of Yoga, in order to prepare the student to take up,...
View ArticleRevisiting the Definition of Yoga, Part I
C’est le Devoir I’m doing an 800-hr correspondence course with Georg and Brenda Feuerstein’s Traditional Yoga Studies. Among the reading materials (like a study binder the size of a small child) is the...
View ArticleWhen The Real Party Begins
I’ve been reading Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice, by Mark Singleton, and it is nothing short of mind-blowing. It’s clear Mark has done extensive research and found substantial...
View ArticleForm and Freedom
I have books that I keep going back again and again, and today I was flipping through my copy of Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your...
View ArticleMind and Body, But I Repeat Myself
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain, a Biography Oh, Mark Twain. I am not here to talk politics. I’m here to...
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