Hi Reader, Are you living the fully inspiring life you were meant for? If not, my next live online course, Finding Your Dharma, may be just what you're looking for. Finding Your Dharma is a course that's designed to guide you through the layers of social conditioning, self‑doubt, and roadblocks that can keep you from living in harmony with your true nature. This guided journey into yoga wisdom's system for discovering your true nature will show you live a deeply fulfilling life defined by the...
1 day ago • 1 min read
Greetings Reader - Today, August 24th, is a noteworthy day on the calendar. Here in the United States, it’s National Waffle Day! Woo-hoo — break out the waffle iron! More significantly, it’s Independence Day in Ukraine, a day I hope Ukranians will continue to celebrate for many years to come. On this date in 1944, Paris was liberated from German occupation by Allied forces and the French Resistance—a cause for celebration and a source of inspiration because, at the rate things are going,...
6 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Every culture has a concept of living in alignment with a guiding purpose. In yoga wisdom, this idea is expressed as following your dharma. Dharma is much more than a job title or social obligation. It’s the essence of who you are, the unique gift that only you can offer the world, and the core values that inform every decision you make. Finding your dharma is the key to living a deeply fulfilling life in alignment with your true nature. Career pressures, family dynamics, social...
8 days ago • 2 min read
Greetings Reader - In case you’re wondering, our nation’s capital has not been overtaken by violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, or drugged-out maniacs. But parts of Washington D.C. have been overtaken by federally-appropriated police officers, FBI, DEA, and ICE agents, and members of the National Guard. It’s another bogus emergency straight from the authoritarian wanna-be playbook. And an example of the difference between executive power in the hands of someone...
13 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Enrollment is open for Finding Your Dharma - a live online course that I designed to help you start living the life you were meant for. Finding Your Dharma is a guided journey into yoga wisdom's system for discovering your true nature, defining your highest values, aligning yourself with your nature and values, and living a deeply fulfilling life. If your not experiencing a sense of fulfillment and alignment right now, it may be because You feel boxed into routines — career or...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Greetings Reader - I took in a wonderful exhibition of paintings, prints, and other works by Vivian Browne at the Phillips Collection here in D.C. last week. In addition to her artwork, there was a photograph of Browne in her loft space in Soho, a neighborhood in Manhattan long associated with artists and galleries. As I looked at the photograph of her in her long open space, surrounded by artist’s materials and works in progress, I remembered how I once thought that this was exactly where I...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next week. This month, by popular request, we’re going to talk about "Deficit Thinking." "Deficit thinking" is a trend in Westernized yoga that frames our various shortcomings – spiritual and physical – as a personal lacking that we actively choose to continue, that poor health, disability, or other less than ideal circumstances are character flaws that are entirely within our control to change rather than being...
23 days ago • 1 min read
Greetings Reader - I took a trip to Florida with my family when I was 7 years-old. The details have gone fuzzy but the highlight reel remains: We travelled by train; I remember the grandeur of the old Penn Station in New York City and the bustling crowds of people. I remember that there was a mix up with the overnight cabin assignments: we were four people in a cabin for two; there were two people in the cabin for four right next to us. We met the couple in the cabin for four but they...
27 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader - Just a quick "Last Call" for How to Deliver a Great Dharma Talk on The Thread Yoga Collective: a live online workshop for yoga teachers who want to learn my a simple system for authentically sharing philosophical wisdom in your classes. If you're an experienced teacher but need a way to share your knowledge of yoga philosophy in a way that works in today's shorter class formats, this workshop is for you. If you're a novice teacher who wants to share yoga wisdom but you don't feel...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Greetings Reader - I started thinking that there must be something beyond this world when I was about 10 years old. By which I don’t just mean beyond planet Earth. I mean beyond the limits of the physical universe. I started thinking that there must be other dimensions of time and space and other states of consciousness that I could learn how to access. Eventually, I realized that there was something just as, if not more, important than being able to access higher states of consciousness:...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read