Writings – Yoga, Wellness, and Beyond

Why a Coloring Book Series of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras?

I’ve always been a doodler. Drawing shapes in the margins of my notebooks, scribbling designs on scraps of paper, tinkering with fonts on...

How to Color the Yoga Sūtras?

Your Yoga Sūtras coloring books just arrived in the mail and you are wondering to yourself—"How do I approach coloring this sacred text?"...

Homage to the Teacher

yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ || (YS 1:2) Yoga is the restraint of the vacillations of the mind. There is invariably a time in every serious...

An Invitation to Go Deeper—Yoga as Contemplative Practice

In the novel, Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, the famed explorer Marco Polo recounts fantastic tales of cities traveled to the aging...

What’s Your Mantra?

In in-between moments on 42nd Street, I used to play a silly game with myself. Nothing to do. No place to go for a while, I would linger....

Pick a Pose, Any Pose...

When I first started practicing yoga some thirty-five years ago, I would trudge over to the Protestant church on Lake Street in South...

Private Yoga Lessons—Why I Should Invest in My Yoga Practice

The Yoga practice—postures, regulation of the breath, and meditation—was traditionally taught by the teacher instructing each student...

Swami Kuvalayananda and A Definition of Yoga

When a student asks me, “What is Yoga?,” my head goes all awhirl ready to explode with the myriad of ways that I could answer such a...

My Experience with Uḍḍīyāna Bandha

uḍḍīyānam tu sahajam gurunā kathitam yathā | abhyaset satatam yastu vrddhi’pi tarunāyate || "Even if an old person practices uḍḍīyāna as...