Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next week. This month we're going to explore questions around challenges faced by neurodivergent people, particularly in yoga communities and classes. Neurodivergence is a non-medical term describing people whose brains function and process information differently from the "typical" social standard. It is an umbrella term, not a diagnosis, encompassing a wide spectrum of natural human variations such as Autism,...

Greetings Reader, I was talking with a friend this past week about an interesting thought experiment he and a few other guys are collaborating on. The experiment uses a fictional story, set in a post-capitalist future in which AI-driven robots do everything that needs to be done and all basic human needs are (somehow) provided for, as a vehicle to explore two questions, posed by the story’s main character: “Does my life have any meaning if I don’t have to do anything?" "If not, how do I...

Hi Reader, When people think about yoga, they usually think about postures, breathing exercises, and meditation. Patanjali had a different starting point. The Yoga Sutras begin with the yamas and niyamas: yoga's principles of ethical conduct and self-care. Most modern yogis know that ethical restraints and personal observances are the first two limbs of the yoga system, but the yamas and niyamas are often misunderstood. Some people view them as moral rules. Others see them as a list of...