...so that I continue to watch you do stuff like this:
I am a terrible journal-er. I have always tried to be a good journal-writer, and in my more angst-y teens and twenties, I was fairly diligent about it. I wrote A lot of poems That werent really poems...
Have you all seen this? Am I way behind? This is, without a doubt, one of the most inspiring stories Ive heard/seen in a very long time. I donated to this little love-bugs college fund, and if ...
Alright, I know. Ive been gone. I have been, markedly absent, the past few weeks. Luckily, Blogger is very forgiving. I click back in to login and I dont even get a hint of resentment or "w...
Painting by William Bouguerau The first time I ever went to see an Ayurvedic doctor, he told me two important things. One, he looked at me when I first walked in and said, "You know what you are,...
For more on Rumi, Mr. Amazing Himself, go here. Or here.
Oh, Shanti Towners, thats right, weve done it! Another podcast episode! Numero Seven...o. This is my long-awaited interview with Suzanne Morrison, author of Yoga Bitch (a super awesome book which you...
Sorry for my absence, Shanti-Towners...last week I made an impromptu trip home to Seattle to see my loving family (with a bonus dinner out in Portland with the in-laws!). Here is a picture of m...
What is the difference between effort and surrender? This week I heard it described like this: Imagine a fish swimming in a river. When the fish is in the current, she is surrendered. She is le...
Have you ever considered, that perhaps this is not a thinking problem? Have you ever considered, that perhaps problems get solved in your life in spite of, and not because of, your thinking? Have you...
Several weeks ago in a class, one of my favorite teachers, Maria Cristina Jimenez, had us rig up a little strap-sling for our upper arms, and in several poses she had us press out into the strap with...
"Yoga practice is like an obstacle race; many obstructions are purposely put on the way for us to pass through. They are there to make us understand and express our own capacities. We all h...
I’m sorry…before I even begin, can I just say GRRRRRRR to my local coffee shop? What is with this trend in local haunts of covering over all their electric outlets so no one can plug in their c...
Image by Locopelli I have avoided, so far, commenting on the scandal-fire raging its way through the Anusara community these days. I have avoided commenting because, a. I’m not a card-carr...
"I think it makes a huge difference, when you wake in the morning and come out of your house, whether you believe youre walking into a dead geographical location, which is used to get to a destin...
Several years ago on NPR there was an interview with an author who had written a book on success. I dont remember the author, and I dont remember the book. But, that doesnt matter. ...
If this aint yoga...I dont know what it is. (thanks to Kate Bartolotta for her original post on EJ!)
"While individuals vary, the natural pace of human beings is slow. In an atmosphere of slowness, kindness and thoughtfulness flourish....Hurry (pressure) makes one slightly insane.... You cannot ...
(friend blogger in question...Ericka Kreutz) Please go here and read this. If you are married, have been married, are about to be married, love someone, once loved someone, hope to someday love someo...
"You know, every now and then I think you might like to hear something from us Nice and easy but theres just one thing... You see, we never ever do nothing nice and easy, We always do it nice...a...
Found this: Thanks to her. And this.
Took these pics for a promo for one of my new classes. Please file this under shameless self-promotion.
I have written before about my love of the Sutras. Patanjali is my guy. I have a now slightly beat-up copy of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali translated by Sri Swami Satchidananda (a famous guru d...
I so loved this article on MINDBODYGREEN by Nancy Alder, read it here...I just had to share. For anyone who is new to yoga, for anyone who finds they have a tendency to push or over-work in class, fo...
So, the other night in bed, while my husband and I were reading (hot, I know), he happened to glance over at the book I was sighing and "hmm"-ing about (I am one of those readers who cant res...
Okay...Im almost embarrassed to be posting this. I probably should be a little MORE embarrassed than I am. Really, I should be embarrassed enough not to post this at all, but...cest la vi...
New York has had its way with me this Christmas. Im not sure I deserved this kind of glove-less treatment from a city I have spent so much time mentally romancing over the past many months, but thats...
Took a beautiful class last night at my beloved Laughing Lotus (thats right, were back in NYC for the holidays, ah sigh)--which always feels to me like coming home. Even though the studio is bl...
When I first got back from my honeymoon, I was so overwhelmed with the desire to DO something, that I promptly bought a bed, a desk, two rugs and some curtains and went right to work rearranging our ...
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