‘There’s no design. I try something, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. That’s the approach.’

In my scrolling, I’ve come across 2 separate interviews with Taylor Swift at different times. In both clips she said that she doesn’t believe there is such a thing as….

What does it mean to ‘live your yoga?’

Is it meditating every day? Being a good person? Finding peace in the chaos?

In yoga, maya is illusion. Everything we see and interact with is maya.

I hosted a group of yoga teachers last weekend on a program for restorative yoga. It's been a bit since I was in a room of teachers…

I do this little speech in one of my beginners classes. It begins with talking about sitting in a chair. Where chairs came from, who used them first and now how they have come to become a household stable and a torture device on the body.

I know the teaching breathing techniques is falling off. The more modernized the practice, the fewer techniques are getting taught.

Then today, I read this dedication Swami Kripalu wrote and John Mundahl used for A Sunrise of Joy.

I don’t remember how old I was when I started to question the religion I grew up in. I do remember little events that accumulated to my feelings that this place I was in wasn’t the safe place (energetically) that I thought it was.

The practice recognizes this too discussing how we are composed of different layers of energy and our practice is moving through them.

The agitation fills the air like dust, and I respond by refusing it. That agitation lives beyond my container and I will observe it from a distance.

To release, is a reminder to let go of the rigidity we hold inside of ourselves and to see the world for a moment…

There is a story from the East about when God* created human. He went to the village elders and was complaining about his creation because they kept coming to him…

Tapas is the process required of a person to transform and grow in their practice. But often, I see people trying to delegate their transformation to something else or to Me! They want me to change for them, instead of them changing for themselves and it happens more than you think.

…we’ve built this new epidermis and each time we grow, we add a layer. The people we were are always with us, even if we are not them anymore.

Now as a teacher, I’m a bit envious of that person. She wasn’t flooded with information, bias and more Sanskrit than she ever dreamed of knowing. She had a beginner’s mind and that was a beautiful gift she took as a limitation.

By letting go of packing for every scenario and only packing for the most likely, we literally unburden our load…

Brahmacharya in yoga is a concept of non-excess and when considered under the guise of food, it can be tricky. So I began to explore this relationship with myself to find more balance and within it I was able to make my body a more comfortable place to live. 

This is probably the posture I spend the most time on because it gets SO exaggerated from asking people to bend their backs in ways that are often not good for the back.

My friend was listening attentively and replied simply, ‘They sound like an energy vampire.’

Whoa.