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...

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,...

Hi Reader, Sharing a bit of yoga philosophy before students start moving is a great way for a yoga teacher to open a class. It can also be challenging. But what’s even more challenging is weaving that bit of philosophy into your class while your students are moving. But that's how you turn the philosophy you talk about into the philosophy that everyone feels. We can tell students that Warrior Pose teaches us how to be strong, Tree Pose teaches us how to stay grounded, and Child’s Pose teaches...