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? That no one should...

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...

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 you...

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 and to...

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 without a...

A little while ago a friend shared this video of a shirtless guy dancing wildly at some sort of outdoor concert. (in case you want to check it out, it's actually really funny) At first he was all alone, and then slowly, one by one, people began to join in, until...

There are many misconceptions about yoga teachers, including that we are: super healthy, skinny, strong, flexible, vegan, injury free, and of course we have every yoga pose down, and find them easy and we've figured out the path to bliss. Those who know me eventually...

Right now I'm trying to identify patterns of behavior that are deep-seated and come out unconsciously when life is full on. One of my patterns goes like this: 1. Take on a lot. 2. Add something else. 3. Feel guilty that I'm not doing enough so when someone asks me to...

Last week I was reflecting on what I wanted to teach about, and this little slip of paper fluttered out from a notebook of mine. Written in a friend's lovely hand writing, it simply read: Don't borrow interest on worry. This friend obviously knows me well, because if...