There’s something special about the weird and wonderful few weeks between Halloween and New Year’s Day. The time of too many sweet treats and cozy sweater weather and traditional recipes and Christmas ...

There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

We can talk about spirituality or yoga or meditation or mindfulness all day, but life has a way of testing whether our understanding is superficial, or thorough. There’s a famous story about Naropa ...

It is commonly understood that yoga means union, oneness, bliss. It is not so commonly understood, however, that Patanjali, the so-called originator of Classical Yoga, had nothing to do with it.

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I often think of yoga as a practice which moves beyond the boundaries of the spoken word. I did my first teacher training in Cologne, Germany—at a time that I didn’t speak more than a handful of ...

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Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

Before the Europeans arrived in North America, it is estimated that anywhere from 1.2 million to 12 million Native Americans—known as the Algonguian peoples—inhabited and rooted themselves deeply in ...

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The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is to create space where you were once stuck. To unveil the layers of protection ...