A Little Better: On Watching Your Mind Get You Hurt
Knowing what your mind does won’t stop it—but practice shortens the gap between recognition and reaction.
Narayana and Practice
On what yoga is really for — not just stretching and calm, but union with the everything of it all. A reflection on Narayana, the name Gopala, and being held by the infinite.
Teaching a Lineage I Never Fact-Checked
For years I could recite my lineage and couldn’t have told you which parts were history and which were marketing. So I ran an audit on my own values — and built the answer instead of only preaching it. Culture and Context is the humanities companion that lets you hold the source, not the paraphrase.
The Information Diet Is the Practice
Why a yoga teacher reads three newspapers a day, and what algorithmic feeds quietly took from all of us.
Performing the Practice vs. Reading It: Why Inheritance Isn’t Understanding
A student asked me why the closing sequence comes last, and I heard how much of what I knew was inheritance, not understanding. I could have written a post about it. Instead I built the map — 81 lessons, on a platform I own. The thing is the proof.
Equity in the Practice Room
A student in the front row can’t hinge forward. She’s seated, legs extended, trying to reach toward her feet. Her pelvis won’t move. Her spine is rounding from the base. Her face is doing the thing faces do when the body refuses and the person inside has decided this is a personal failure. I tell her: put something under your butt. She looks at me like I offered her a reduced sentence. The prop mythology runs deep. Blocks are for beginners. Props are for people who can’t do it yet. Put the block away when you’re ready. Some of this comes from lineage — traditions where the shapes were sacred, where modification was equivalent to deviation. Some of it is aesthetic. A room of people…
Good Teacher, Broke Teacher: The Business Skills Yoga Training Ignores
I learned to teach yoga long before I learned to make a living from it. So I built the business I wish someone had handed me — and then built the program that hands you the same playbook.
A Beginner’s Guide to Systems Theory
What is systems thinking? Let’s dive into systems theory, exploring interconnectedness, feedback loops, and emergent properties. We’ll untangle this complex web together and maybe learn to think bigger in the process! #systemstheory #interconnectedness #feedbackloops
From Obedience to Inquiry: When I Started Asking Why in Practice
The values audit behind Foundations of Praxis: I kept teaching that beginners deserve to understand from day one — then I stopped talking about it and built the on-ramp. Designed sequence, guided audio, count videos, a Practice Recorder you own.
Practicing Without the Teacher’s Count: Making the Sequence My Own
I ran a values audit on myself and didn’t like how cheap talk is. So instead of posting that practitioners should be able to practice alone, I built the tool that makes it possible — every pose, both sides, counted breath by breath, on a platform I own.