If AI Is Doing the Work, Who Owns the Upside?
If AI takes the labor, we either tax the winners harder or make everyone a shareholder.
Why Beginners Quit: Replacing the Wall of Poses With an On-Ramp
For years I handed new practitioners the entire sequence on day one and watched most of them quietly disappear. The problem was never their discipline — it was my dosage. So instead of writing one more post about consistency, I built the thing that enforces it.
What Do You Enjoy Doing?
The first twenty minutes go the same way every time. A new client comes in and we inventory the damage. Where it hurts, how long it’s been hurting, what they’ve tried, what failed, what the doctor said. It’s useful information. I need it. But after a while it starts to sound like a case file, and a case file isn’t a person. So I change the subject. “What do you enjoy doing?” I ask. Not what they used to enjoy before the injury. Not what they plan to get back to eventually. What do they do for fun, right now, this week, in their actual life. The question lands strangely. There’s always a pause. Not a polite one — a real pause, the kind that…
Safety Is Not Real: Why the Alarm Is Not a Fire
If you feel unsafe, you’re either in danger or your alarm system is broken — and it helps to know which.
Half Cocked in the Fuck You Room
On burnout, compassion fatigue, and the slow return to cavalier — a reflection on holding a family through hard seasons and the karma yoga of starting over.
Postal People
On mail slots, burning buildings, a dog in a mail truck, and why knowing your mail carrier matters more than you think.
The Coercers Are the Ones Who Fear Being Seen
I was trying to describe someone — a teacher, a manager, the kind of authority figure who issues a lot of direction without doing much of it themselves — and I kept landing on a word that surprised me. Not incompetent. Not lazy. Afraid. Fear isn’t what I usually reach for when I’m trying to explain coercive leadership. But sit with it long enough and it makes a very specific kind of sense. The people who lead by force and mandate and the threat of consequence are, very often, the people who most fear leading by example. Not for personal reasons. For structural ones. When you lead by example, your behavior is the argument. Not your title. Not your seniority, your credential, your years in…
Access Is the Practice
What it really means to build access as a yoga teacher inside institutions that were never built for you.
The Best Dumb Phone Is Already Strapped to Your Wrist
The cellular Apple Watch gives you everything a phone is for and none of what makes it toxic.
Meditation, the Limb I Kept Skipping: Building a Method for Stillness
For years I treated meditation as the part of the practice you get to eventually. Here is why I finally built it a real curriculum, on a platform I own — and who it is for.