The Gratitude of Surrender
Have you ever surrendered? I mean, complete and total surrender. Normally, I think we view this (and experience this) with the feeling of defeat. I give up. You win. But I am talking about something different. I am talking about surrendering to …
What IS yoga about?
The other day someone asked me what yoga is about. Not in general, but for me personally. And in that moment I was stopped by the realization that I couldn't possibly give a simple answer to what my yoga practice means to …
Is Your Practice is Letting you Down?
What happens when you have been so enamored by the gifts of yoga… by the personal progress and transformation, by the growth and synthesis of knowledge into your being, only to find that one day you wake up and realize your old …
Stability vs. Expansion
“Let your stability create expansion. Never let your expansion steal from your stability.” In my yoga teacher training we talked a lot about the stability of a pose vs. the expansion within that pose. This dichotomy is one of the key elements of …
Never? No, Just Not Yet.
Awhile back I made a decision to never say never. Let me rephrase that. I consciously decided to eradicate the word 'never' from my vocabulary. And this simple act has brought on a pretty profound change in perspective and subsequent action. Because …