Musings

I love old, immense ideas. Ideas that can and will encircle, embrace all that a human being ever was or could be. Ideas that wrap us like...

Every moment is a transition from what was into what is. Being present is simply riding the waves of change. Being a yogi is riding these...

How do we embody the eightfold path of yoga as we live our fullest lives in New York City? We blur the lines between practice and...

Truly feeling grateful and blessed can be overwhelming— we are suffused with the abundance of our lives and recognizing, calling out,...

Contentment is simply stability of mind: a steadiness that is sanity. When we are discontent, dissatisfied with the here and now, we...

Our habits give form to the fluidity of our lives. They are the structure, the rhythm of our days, the patterns of our perception, the...

We humans are creatures of habit— or so they say. But what happens when we come into the habit of conscious awareness? We see ourselves...

To look deeply within, we start small, we start at center. We use the idea of centripetal force and intentionally draw our attention, our...

What happens with speed of mind? We are always seeking the “up” energy: coffee, busy schedules, excitement for good things to come. Do we...

How do we allow people and places to change us? When we close ourselves to change, when we create boundaries and structures that preserve...

There is no such thing as personal love— love with limitations is not love but attachment, which we feel as caring and devotion,...

When we shift our perception away from dualities, we free our minds from labeling, naming, sorting, owning, categorizing. This is an...

How we love is how we live: completely, or not at all. When we are at our best, all that we do in our life flows from our love for...

Stress is the defining disorder of our time; disorder also defines stress. Disorder is the same whether we are looking at mind or body,...

short answer: yes, because you will see that there are no problems! long answer: What does it mean to come into yoga, into philosophy or...

Given our lifestyles of material abundance, energetic variability, and stress/pressures on our living space and time, how do we design...

When we hone the skill of moving fluidly through life, with ease as well as clear direction, it is essential that we are sensitive to...

The insanity we seek out is what we call love— the desire to be fully with the beloved, the one that we love. And it is one that we love....

The greatest magic of our lives is our connection with others, the energy that brings us together, and the mystery of how paths can...

There is no power without speed. And to mobilize energy smoothly, efficiently, we need to recognize the nature and depth of resistances....