Musings

Studying the yoga body-mind gives us a broader view of the human experience, especially in contrast to the reductive medical approach of...

“Today,” I thought, when I woke up to gold mirrors reflecting the just-woke sunlight. “This day.” This is the day I chose to be born....

The greatest gift the pandemic has given us is time and space. How we fill the present is a choice that doesn’t always feel like choice. Days can slip like water through fingertips unless we make the effort to cultivate conscious action. The source of conscious action is mental clarity.

Conventional thinking teaches us mind over matter, head over body, mental health separable from physical health. The nature of the...

The human body-mind is a dynamic expression of a singular life, evolving moment to moment, through daily decisions and wide-sweeping cultural changes. With eyes narrowed to survival and daily duties, we forget the enormous potential living within each of us— but with eyes open, conscious and curious of how life can be lived, the human body-mind is an an embodied art in form as well as function.

How did we begin? Human beings are the primates who chose to stand— and from that awe-inspiring movement flows all that makes us unique...

Yoga has evolved through every era of human culture, from its ancient origins as secret, spoken teachings, then codified texts taught to royals and seekers, then an increasingly physical system that spread throughout India into group-fitness-loving global culture today. With the pandemic, yoga has evolved yet again, this time reclaiming its roots as a singular pursuit of an individual who values mind-body health and harmony.

I love knowledge. I love the pursuit of it, the discovery, the mind-body revelations, the whole-life reverberations. It’s this love that...

The core question of ancient yoga philosophy and modern yoga/meditation is this: how to harmonize inner peace with outer reality. The...

The core question of ancient yoga philosophy and modern yoga/meditation is this: how to harmonize inner peace with outer reality. The...

Set yourself up for success without making yourself crazy The first step of my journey to India was the flight itself: 14 hours nonstop...

As a rule, I love all holidays. Every reason is a good reason to celebrate a day of life-- making Halloween a little complex, as a...

Tips and tricks from a yogi’s search for silence I lay tossing and turning in bed one night, a condition I remedied in the tried and true...

Drawing on the teachings of Ayurveda for Daily Rhythms The first time I heard of celestial events affecting earthly lives was at the cusp...

Padmasana. The word itself is beautiful, especially when you pronounce it as they do in India: with a softness around the ‘d’ so that it...

Yoga originated as humanity’s first science of the mind, a meditative path honed through generations of Indian masters and disciples in...