Greetings Reader, The New York Times ran a story last week that brought me back to the glorious days of my misspent youth. It was a story about a 1936 film that was originally released as a pompous public service announcement and went on to enjoy a second life decades later as a midnight-movie classic: Reefer Madness. I saw Reefer Madness with a group of friends at the Uniondale Mini Cinema on Long Island when I was a teenager. And yes, we were all hippie freaks toking on clipped roaches...

Hi Reader, If you’ve been teaching asana classes for a while and feel like your students are asking for something more, something deeper . . . The yoga and meditation market is moving away from high-intensity asana workouts and toward practices that focus more on somatic healing and nervous system regulation. Offering guided meditations is a powerful way to meet that demand. A great guided meditation is more than just relaxation cues and visualization prompts. There’s a science to using your...

Greetings Reader, A couple of weeks back I wrote about how right reasoning depends more on true premises than on a well-constructed argument. For example, “All horses can fly, all horses are tomatoes, therefore, all tomatoes can fly” is a well-constructed argument that’s based on two obviously false premises. If it were just a matter of armchair philosophy, then it wouldn’t really matter. But falling for logical fallacies can have real-world consequences. For example, if you think alignment...