The more popular yoga becomes, the more I appreciate my teachers and the lineage behind me. A lineage teacher asks you to step into the...

vitarka badhane pratipaksha bhavanam when disturbed by negative thoughts, cultivate the opposite patanjali yoga sutra II.33 The...

A student asked recently about the 10-day course I would be attending in San Luis Obispo. What would I be studying? What kind of training...

As the light changed from red to green to yellowAnd back to red again, I sat there thinking about life.Was it nothing more than a bunch...

Maintaining a regular yoga practice can be challenging in the best of times, and when the holidays come to call it can feel downright...

Summer delivered waves of joy as our nuptials approached and our families came together. Two daughters traveled home from overseas, one...

Wanna know a secret? Yoga creates problems. Big problems. Forget the marketing promises of waltzing through life with a carefree mind,...

India’s most ancient teachings, The Vedas, date back to 2000 BC and hold the early seeds of yogic thought.  These authoritative teachings...

Ahh the glory of spiritual platitudes . . . It would not be unreasonable to estimate that students absorb about 10% of what a yoga...

"I have seen again and again that if you are a type A personality, you will do your yoga practice with the same aggression and...

When the student is ready, the teacher appears . . . Or so the saying goes.  But the widespread popularity of yoga means that, these...

Prior to everything, asana is spoken of as the first part of hatha yoga. Hatha Yoga Pradipika, 1.17 In the evolving vocabulary of yoga,...

Armed with weapons, wild-eyed and ready to kill, carrying a garland of skulls and the severed head of a demon, standing over Shiva with...

Giving a presentation on humility and non-attachment in Los Angeles is a little like giving a lecture on diabetes at a See’s candy shop....

Taking inventory of professional offerings is an important aspect of teaching. Not only does the process stimulate reflection, insight...

In an effort to attract more and more potential students from the expanding market segment of mind/body fitness, the modern yoga movement...

Consider that most of us dwell in a world of our own thoughts, concepts, and projections; we are not fully connected with reality and...