How to Choose the Right Yoga Mat
So you’ve decided to buy your own mat? Good for you. Your mat will become a place of peace and pain, pleasure and determination, a place of solitude and introspection.
Yoga for Creativity: Using Yogic Awareness to Create Art
Connecting with your true self through yoga has the power to unleash your creative potential.
Parvati: maiden, a lover and a mother that typifies the balance of strength and softness
The Indian deity Parvati is surprisingly relevant to anyone looking to balance strength with gentleness.
Embrace Life’s Pleasures: They are a Path of Self-Discovery
Embrace life’s pleasures—they have the potential to lead you to the highest of joys.
How to Accept Gifts, Compliments and Love
Open your arms, and your heart, to the gifts that life offers you.
Yoga Sutra: Learning about Abhinivesha (the fear of death) while watching my wife dying.
PATANJALI NOTES that each klesha (obstacles to the path of yoga) can be overcome through meditation. Abhinivesha (the fear of death) is the last klesha, and it’s one that can be Continue Reading
Good Karma; Bad Karma
You can plant the future of your dreams when you act with an understanding of karma.
How to receive: The yoga of give and take
MY GENEROUS MOTHER could never receive a gift. On Christmases and birthdays, my brothers and I would each offer her something we thought she’d like – a jumper, a piece Continue Reading
Embracing impermanence: Now we begin our practice
LIVING WITH A BUSY FAMILY, I often feel just like one of the Tibetan monks I once saw making an intricately designed sand mandala. For months, they bent over the Continue Reading
Prana Vayus: Meet the force within you
A FEW MONTHS AGO, my father lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. In the final stretch of his life, I continued teaching a full schedule of yoga classes, but I Continue Reading