Greetings Reader, Well, the law of averages says that once in a while, the email app won't work. And so it went. Sorry - the email you received earlier today wasn't the email I intended to send. What you got was old news. Here's the new news: My next live online workshop will be an introduction to bhakti-yoga, the yoga of devotion. When I first got interested in spirituality and mysticism as a teenager, I never thought about yoga and meditation in a devotional context. That felt too...

Greetings Reader, A shift is happening in modern yoga and spiritual spaces.⁠ Teachings from sacred traditions are being reinterpreted—this time to support authoritarian narratives of social hierarchy, racial purity, and selective justice. ⁠Has ancient wisdom been hijacked to serve authoritarian ideals? Or has the yoga tradition always supported social hierarchies and inequality? ⁠ Does yoga philosophy align with liberal values like inclusivity, environmentalism, and social justice? Or have...

Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next week. This month, we’re going to talk about "Spiritual Economics" and a surprising fact: the yoga wisdom tradition has some specific ideas about tax policies and budget frameworks. Of, course, it should come as no surprise that the yoga wisdom tradition's social policies are designed for the material prosperity and spiritual upliftment of human society. But what exactly are those policies, where do they come...