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 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 …
I am an alcoholic. I am a junkie. And I practice yoga. Addicts and alcoholics are a breed apart. Yogis, too, are often wildly misunderstood by people at large. But in the two, I’ve managed to find my place in the world. My recovery and my commitment to yoga happened nearly simultaneously. Nearly. I stuck …
