Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next Wednesday. This month we're going to talk about — you guessed it — the U.S. midterm election results and what yoga wisdom has to say about how to ride the blue wave. The social order and political system described in yoga wisdom literature is designed for both material prosperity and spiritual upliftment for every member of society. It's very different from what we're accustomed to in the United States and in...
about 8 hours ago • 1 min read
Greetings from Montserrat, Reader, Imagine what the Temple of Apollo at Delphi would have looked like if it had been designed by Dr. Seuss. That’s a fair description of Parc Güell, a festive 42-acre garden complex draped across the southern slope of Mount Carmel on the northern edge of Barcelona. Designed by Antoni Gaudí, whose Modernist architectural imprint is practically synonymous with the capital of Catalonia, Parc Güell’s undulating architectural forms are rich in symbolism, its native...
11 days ago • 3 min read
Greetings from Tarragona, Reader, I’m sitting a stone’s throw or two from the Mediterranean Sea after spending most of my first week in Spain doing a museum-a-thon in Madrid. If you like art, you’ll love Madrid. I’m not usually a big Picasso fan, but his Harlequin with a Mirror has a wonderfully trippy quality that gets lost in reproduction and Guernica up close is as epic as they say it is. Spending time in front of Bosch’s famous triptych, TheGarden of Earthly Delights, was another...
18 days ago • 3 min read
Greetings Reader, I don’t think of yoga as a commerce-driven wellness industry. I think of yoga as a movement driven by spiritual imagination. A movement that proclaims the possibility of a different reality. The thing fascinated me about yoga when I first heard about it was the idea that it was a way to expand your consciousness and experience reality on a higher level. And yeah, I did a lot of tripping as a teenager. But that came later. The idea that I could expand my consciousness was...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Greetings Reader, Huntsville, Alabama is famous for being the place where the rockets that shot the first American astronauts into space were built. Unfortunately, the rocket scientist who built them, Wernher von Braun, was a Nazi war criminal. But, thanks to him, the United States won the space race and Huntsville went from being a backwater garrison town to "Rocket City." In recognition of von Braun’s central role in making Huntsville a literal boom town, the city’s municipal leadership...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Greetings Reader, Back in 1990-something, I was working for a digital video systems manufacturer. My job was to demonstrate their products at trade shows and to train end-users how to operate them. There was a lot of travel involved: to the company’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, to trade shows in Las Vegas and Amsterdam, and to cities large and small whenever a local broadcaster purchased a motion graphics system or title effects generator. On one occasion, the head of marketing told me I...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, I'm writing to let you know about my next live online workshop: Beyond Belief: Yoga Wisdom for Discerning Truth from FalsehoodSaturday, October 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT TUITION: $27 The workshop will be recorded — a replay link will be emailed to all registrants. Yoga teachers can receive 1.5 hours of continuing education credit with Yoga Alliance. → CLICK HERE TO ENROLL We have access to more information than ever before—and more exposure to sophisticated attempts to manipulate...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Greetings Reader, I recently heard former late night television star Stephen Colbert describe his erstwhile gig as the equivalent of “being lowered like carbon rods into a radioactive pool every day, and then being pulled out and put in front of a camera to radiate it back out at the audience at a non-lethal rad level.” Sometimes I feel like I could say the same thing about my current gig. On the one hand, I feel the need to know what’s going on in the world, both for myself and for the sake...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Greetings Reader, After three weeks of practice, I feel confident in saying that I have mastered the art of being on vacation. Ate it up. Crushed it. Knocked it out of the park. Stuck the landing. It was great. I totally cleared my calendar of everything except all of my meetings and appointments to make sure I would have a few zeptoseconds every day to relax. And when I wasn’t busy relaxing, I renovated my entire website, planned out my workshop and course schedule for the next 12 months,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read