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And who would think 21.5.800 would actually get me to do two things: write kinda personally, and finally upload images into posts.

It’s no secret that I’m moving from New York to San Francisco in a few weeks. What you may not know is I have no [...]

So I’m still with this challenge- really! Through a killer flu, even!

On Tuesday, I woke up with a tickle in my throat and of course ignored it. I did a pretty rigorous vinyasa practice in the morning, got a whole lot of work done, took a 2-mile walk after lunch, did more work. Later in [...]

So, this Sunday, I slipped. 5 days into the 21.5.800 challenge, and no writing, no yoga. It just completely slipped my mind. I spent literally all day, midnight-to-midnight with people I love, so that’s a good excuse. I went swimming. By swimming, I don’t mean freestyle laps, I mean I jumped around in a tiny [...]

This morning in my practice, I tried to cultivate a sense of gentleness. I can sometimes move into passivity, so I was aiming more for an active gentleness. My training is in “Power Vinyasa Flow” and I generally have the ethos that not much is happening unless you’re sweating, so this is a constant challenge [...]

I’ve joined the 21.5.800 challenge: for 21 days (now till the end of June) I will do yoga five times a week and write 800 words a day. (Join me!)

I have a little bit of an advantage: My work is (probably) over for the next month and a half or so as I prepare for [...]

As some of you may know, I’m relocating to San Francisco for grad school. I’ll be studying Somatic Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, which should make sense if you’re a regular reader here.

One major theme in my application essay was the idea of traveling from the external to the internal experience of [...]

I’m loving this post from Seth Godin.  If you’ve practiced long enough, you’ve probably run into the kind of teacher “that you cannot please, that you cannot learn from, that is unwilling to take you where you need to go because he is defending the status quo and demonstrates your failure on whatever report [...]

…or, as Mario would say, “Here we go!”

One of the commitments I made when I started writing and teaching was to maintain reverence to the yoga sutras and to consult them- in the decisions I make both on and off the mat. They’re non-dogmatic*, and provide what I consider a pretty beautiful basis for the [...]

I posted this on The Mindfulist but I think it’s helpful, so I’m re-posting it here. It’s a modified-for-being-at-work sun salutation, with the forward fold and backbending action without having to put the hands or whole body on the floor.

Be BAREFOOT or at least in flat shoes. I put a towel under my feet so [...]