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How Being Human Can Wreck Your Body
The yoga championships came to town yesterday. I will leave the evaluation of the evolution of these competitions to the yoga historians, although I don’t have to be Georg Feuerstein or Mark Singleton to have some pretty serious doubts that … Continue reading
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Chakras – the Chocolate of Yoga
Chakras have always seemed to me the candy of yoga. In a practice that sometimes seems in danger of becoming chronically virtuous, turning my attention to the chakras always feels like it’s time for dessert. Not to say that the … Continue reading
Yoga for Holiday Stress
I’m not sure when I fell out of love with the holidays, but if I had to pin it down, I’d say it was the year of the collage magnets. I was in my mid-twenties, living with friends in Seattle, … Continue reading
Save the Date – Yoga and Watercolor
This week’s writing time was dedicated to a piece for teachasana.com – a great resource for yoga teachers to connect with one another and consider the unique joys and challenges of our work. I’ll let you know when it’s published! … Continue reading
The Paradox of Pretty
I feel guilty about wearing makeup to teach yoga. I am trying to convince people to focus on their inner landscape for an hour, but there I am before class carefully pruning my outer one. If you were to ask … Continue reading
The Fine Art of Being Boring
I spent three years worrying I was boring my therapist to tears. Lord help me, I wanted to be a little nuttier. Instead, I felt I was dysfunctional enough to need therapy, but not enough to be a remotely interesting … Continue reading
Code Names and Living a Double Life
I once worked with a woman who had two names. One was for work and one was for home. While her given name was very floral and feminine, her chosen professional name was positively…feral. I completely understood this compartmentalization, and … Continue reading
Caffeine, Nicotine, and Inappropriate Feelings (or: what not to do your first week of yoga.)
In 1996, I took my first yoga class. I only took a second one because I had instantly developed a crush on my teacher. I would like to offer my youth as my excuse – I had no idea yet … Continue reading
Teaching Beginners: A How Not-To
Let me tell you how not to teach a beginning yoga class: Back at the beginning of my stint teaching our Yoga Basics class at It’s All Yoga, I was an earnest young teacher with a lot of ideas. … Continue reading
