On February 27th I will begin my 200-hour teacher training program at Sonic Yoga in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City. I will share my process with you from beginning to end with great honesty, my triumphs and my low points. Though the training is almost two months away, I have already begun prepping for the course.

Where do you find answers to your major life decisions? Hopefully you have a few trusted friends. Maybe your family still gives good advice. Obviously you have Google. But at some point aren’t you tired of digesting everyone else’s advice? Where’s your intuition? Once I started listening, I found answers everywhere. Some are quiet, some [...]

I just finished a really strange book called Think and Grow Rich. If you can get past the title, there are some powerful thoughts inside. I kept hearing about it from various blogs and teachers, so I finally gave it a chance. Author Napoleon Hill was commissioned by Andrew Carnegie (in 1908) to interview over [...]

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” — William James quoted in Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

The Times has a profile of Tibetan monk Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Happiest Man in the World.” He’s released a new book called Joyful Wisdom describing his methods. In his book he recounts being extremely anxious as a child in Nepal, having had what a Manhattan psychiatrist would likely diagnose as panic attacks, and how [...]

Most Americans are introduced to yoga through the poses. (Sometimes I think that Krishnamacharya’s genius was to let us see it as a physical thing, instead of another religion to convert to or flee from. Later on, we can try on the spirituality.) Then we might find breathing or meditation practices. And eventually we get [...]

If you love the Integral family of shops (the grocery, the vitamin store, and most of all the five-floor ashram), you might like to know that the bookstore has a 20% off sale each month. March: Children’s section April: Chakras section May: Holistic animal care section June: Raw and live foods section They are located [...]

[Substitute "yoga practice" for "walk" throughout.] In the days when I thought a walk was just exercise, the ideas did not come until the end. “It is only in walks that are a little too long, that one has any new ideas,” I find that I wrote in my diary. I now understand this. It [...]

A wonderful animation about string theory, by Rob Bryanton. Looks like he has a book to go with it. Following are the dimensions, with his visual descriptions in parentheses. Not sure if these names are right, he just describes the visuals. Each dimension is actually “twisting and turning in the dimension above” like a Mobius [...]

I just finished an amazing book (which was a total impulse buy) if anyone is looking for a quick read. Shadows on the Path, by Abdi Assadi, highlights the challenges we face on a path towards self-realization, notably the acceptance of our shadow sides. The book covers addiction, teachers, spiritual paths, romantic relationships, death, grace, [...]