Bija: The Seeds of Yoga in the West Over thousands of years, wandering Jain, Buddhist and Hindu Ascetics in the Indus Valley (currently parts of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Tibet), developed a set of physical,
1990s to Now: From 1 to 37 Million Practitioners, and a $17BN annual industry. As of 2018, about 37 million Americans practice some form of yoga. That number has almost doubled in the last 3
Were you as disturbed by the recent Charlottesville violence as I was? Here’s a 3 minute sermon as response. —- We are one body with all other bodies and the earth and the sky and
Breath as Medicine: Better than any Drug Breathing is, generally speaking, automatic: the brain stem controls the rate of breathing in response to blood-oxygen levels, as measured by receptors in the aorta. These blood-oxygen levels
I’m sweaty and smelly and brown and happy: for the last month we’ve been out on the land working on the development of a beautiful place to gather and share ideas and experiences- in the
If you’ve watched an advanced practitioner in their yoga asana practice, there’s a sweet quality of how they move between postures. There is no huffing, puffing, drama, fidgeting, scratching, adjusting clothes, getting a drink of
Today is the birthday of my new work, Indivisible: Coming Home to True Connection. Here’s a short video to tell you a little bit about what the book is about, and why I wrote it.
Nada, Mantra, Kirtan. The yogas of sound. For many years, I’ve been singing, and it does something wonderful to the brain and body. In honor of BhaktiFest, where we’ll be singing this weekend, here’s an
(An excerpt from Indivisible) Have you had the experience of suddenly perceiving everything at once, of all things working in harmony and ease? Once, driving down the highway in the Sonoma springtime, I had a
I am passionate about many things, but none so much as yoga. It has been the one constant and ever deepening exploration in my life, for 15 years. From breath to embodied movement, devotion and
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