I teach yoga to young people. Young people are swayed, if not bombarded with, pressure and advertisements, expectations and rules. They are told, more often than not, what they should be doing, feeling, and having. They are told who they should and should not be. Often, they are given conflicting messages. More often still, they …
Addiction is said to be a bio-pyscho-social disease. It is a malady affecting both the body and the mind. Science is proving what yoga practitioners have known, and many people learn on their own, for thousands of years: the mind and the body are one. Psychology and physiology are linked. This means that our thoughts, …
The breath is a strange thing, but mostly a door. As a poet, I’m drawn to all the ways it has been used across time and across cultures to not only stand for life, but for god, for change, for being itself. But I am more and more fascinated not by breath as metaphor, but …
The brainy, thoughtful mind is surprised by yoga. Like thunder surprises, rattling your insides and shocking you little. It is surprised by revelation. The revelation is that spirituality turns out to be a fleshy, cellular, fully human thing, rather than a rarefied or ephemeral experience. When we speak of anything noble, progressive, certainly anything related …
