Writings – Yoga, Wellness, and Beyond

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

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

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...

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

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....

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

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

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...

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