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 …
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 …
It is hard to talk about yoga, what it is, what it does. It is almost as hard to talk about yoga as it is to talk about ourselves, who we are, what we do. I suppose because both yoga and the question of who we are remain shrouded in mystery. It’s a place of …
