Yoga Journal just posted about an exciting project underway: The proposed 600-page project is called the Tantric Studies Reader, and it’s being put together by renowned Sanskrit and Yogic scholars. These scholars estimate that only 4% of the hundreds of key texts on yoga and Tantra have yet been translated. There are thousands more, unknown [...]

My friend and I were talking about nutrition this weekend, as I am wont to do, and the price of organic food came up. Here in New York, where a small box of shredded wheat is often $7, it’s hard to conceive of committing to an even more expensive lifestyle. (I’ve seen some marketing articles [...]

My sister and I were talking about the three body types (doshas) in Ayurveda, and I wrote a long response to her, so I thought I’d share it here. She said “I’m not quite sure how to balance the food suggestions. It seems like foods okay for Vata are not ok for Pitta. According to [...]

I’ve been meaning to share this amazing illustrator (Tom Geisler) who has drawn out the internal organs as they respond to emotion. Very cool! No word on whether you can go backwards, and stimulate the organs (aka do yoga) to generate the emotion. I tried medical illustration once and it was a bust, it is [...]

From the Iyengar Institute: Light on Yoga by BKS Iyengar The classic guide to yoga. All yoga students should have this book. In addition to detailed instructions on over 200 asanas (postures), there is a comprehensive explanation of yoga philosophy. Yoga in Action: Preliminary Course by Geeta Iyengar Specifically geared towards students who are participating [...]

Today I did Pilates at home. I count it as yoga; a lot of the Pilates moves are lesser-known yoga moves you can find in the older texts. And, as much as yoga insists you should engage uddhiyana bandha (navel lock) throughout vinyasa practice, you can go for years without doing it right or at [...]

Tonight it was Prana Yoga at Greenhouse. Strange class — we chanted a chakra mantra 1–3 times at the beginning of each pose. As in “stretch your arm out and down into Triangle, exhaling ‘Lam Lam Lam’ as you go.” Each pose is supposed to activate a chakra along the spine, so I assume we [...]