Examining Privilege

Examining Privilege

Growing up in a Baha’i household I was raised with the concept of global unity – that no one group/ethnicity/race/gender is superior to another. So many of the beautiful writings speak to this: “Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust?...
Impermanence

Impermanence

Sometimes we are given some pretty blatant reminders of how fleeting and fragile this material life is. The start of this year has been a lesson, or perhaps a series of lessons, on impermanence. My practices have been detachment, acceptance, surrender, resilience, and...
A Lesson in Starting Over

A Lesson in Starting Over

I confess, I have dreams of starting over. Of a clean slate. All I’m going to say is: be careful what you dream! It may just become a reality. Yes, ironically the universe sometimes gives us exactly what we ask for…but not necessarily how we expect it. As...
Giving it to You Straight

Giving it to You Straight

I’d like to send out a quick PSA: If you’re a yoga teacher and you are encouraging your students to reach their end point in their flexibility, you need to stop. This is not the Bolshoi Ballet. This is YOGA. This is where we are learning to listen to our bodies...
Method to My Madness

Method to My Madness

I’ve just returned from a fantastic, successful retreat weekend in Switzerland and I’m tired. To be fair, I was tired before, but the aftermath of creating, thinking through, designing, organizing, and eventually holding space, for this event to go off...