One of my favorite songs ever. Sultry. Sexy. Feel the southern heat settle across your skin as you sit on a lazy porch rocker with a cool glass of lemonade. …
Kitchen Music is a series of songs that I literally sing in the kitchen with the aid of Garage Band. God bless Garage Band. This one is Joni's Mitchell's "Case…
"If it seems too good to be true, it probably is." "The only thing that doesn't change is change itself." "The right decision isn't always easy." These hard nuts…
The Times recently wrote an article about the 2012 yoga competition held in New York City. Yoga competition? As in prizes? Seriously? Founded by Rajashree Choudary, the wife of the…
Yesterday, I sent my Grandma an article from Harvard Medical School about some new research touting the merits of a protein from a plant-based diet. As someone who has run…
Today, or this morning rather, I was eating piece toast with cashew butter (homemade, even, dee-lightful). And I decided to make a little agreement with myself. To self: I will…
What exactly is the shoulder? And why do they get so freakin' stuck when we try to lift our arms overhead? Two Joints of the Shoulder The shoulder is actually…
I heard this great podcast from the guys at "Stuff you should know." An accessible and interesting primer on the history of karma from Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant.
Did you know that alchemy is part of the roots of hatha yoga? The desire to transmute the body into a worthy vessel was inspired in part by the alchemical…
Tonight in class, one of my students asked me to expand on the response article to "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body," particularly as it relates to two asana: shoulderstand…
A yoga teacher and galpal of mine recently emailed me about the proverbial drying of the creative yoga well. "Last Wed I feel like I taught the WORST yoga class…