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 fire that she has ste...

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 would I receive? Wo...

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 of screaming and yell...

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

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

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

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

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

"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 competitiveness that shapes th...

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

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, one phrase keeps bob...

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 her tongue out, dripp...

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. The information is v...

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

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

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