I just wanna start popping up saying “Hello! Im Michael Hall”— but mzke it sound a bit like “Shelly Duval) … watch out

so good

Simple Lats and Legs Circuit:
Go up in weight
Aim for 90 seconds for each round, 11-12 sec per rep.

3 Rounds (1 min between sets)
-Single Arm Reverse Grip Lat Pulldown (r & l)— 8 Eccentrics with 2lb Progression
-8 Suitcase Squats (time under tension) with 2lb progressions

3 Rounds (1 minute rest)
-Single Arm Reverse Grip Lat Pulldown (r & l)— 8 Eccentrics with 2lb regressions
-8 Suitcase Squats (time under tension) with 2lb regressions

Adaptive resistance via @vitruvian
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Maybe lets launch a little ashtanga early bird barbell club, huh? Hit me up if that sounds fun.

Life’s wild. Yoga helps us find a stillness in the midst of it all.

There’s a great deal of fun to be had in these old bones. Might as well enjoy your life. Bodyweight transitions next week at @theyoga.club.

Come play!

from the brilliant ‘maps and musing’ by @davidgarriguesyoga —
We’re ordering another copy at @theyoga.club

oh this is so good

could my Tennessee friends ask Rep Ogle to leave DC alone?

please keep my family in your prayers

There was always a pack.

Translated from Croatian: more about rolf: @toncigulisija_shivarishi

my most precious of memories are kept safe with friends

When I got to Goa, I felt anonymous again.

In Mysore, I felt like everyone had heard. I was the ashtangi who got hate crime'd in the face after his house burned down. I wanted to be the tall pretty one. Or the smart one. But for now, I was very much the tragic one.

Luckily, Rolf wasn’t watching the news. I was just one more 6'3 drop back for him to do. And he was happy to oblige-- quietly sharing lite bits here and there in my ear about his work. But not so happy with it that I didn’t get assigned sone extra. Great.

After 26 years of shrinking myself for others, I got to just be the big one. You gotta gang up to take the big one down, and that's what was happening in real life. Literal gangs at home on the street, and little yogi gangs jockeying for status in Mysore.

When you question your ability to be loved by the universe, it is very helpful to see real love pouring out of someone else’s eyes.

Rolf didn’t need to know that I was stitched together with laughy taffy and titanium. Marci went to work on putting my physical injuries to bed and Rolf my heart. Neither needed a narrative. it is good, because I was so sick of my own story I couldn’t take it anymore.

As I’ve been working on my book-- it’s almost done -- the only part that I haven’t gotten into is my introduction into Systems Thinking-- through a gang beatdown.

I have known catastrophe again and again and gotten up to go again and again. This might sound like hubris, but check my receipts.

Rolf was able to help me see the interconnected nature of things in a way that makes the big picture possible. He also helped me understand how unspecial I was — while also feeling very very, very special. As Rolf would say, you do as you feel, and every day, the Yoga grows inside of you like a little plant.

In many ways, the development of my practice and the autonomy — the Santosh— the self sufficiency — means that there is less labor for my teacher to take on. Now i understand that my desire to be better in my physical practice was also so that Rolf had to do less for me.

Since he’s dead now, I will have to put my thigh down on the ground myself.

a whole vibe.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

“Easy come, easy go," Rolf would say.

My teacher has passed.

Rolf taught along the Arabian Sea, between the psytrance and the sea— just in from jungles of Goa. As complex as he was simple and straightforward, he lived and led by example. He changed my life. He made clear that liberation was available to each of us, starting with the malarkey of our present condition.

I want nothing more in this life than to make him proud. He’d likely rather that I be gardening, swimming, praying— anything other than typing. Especially not posting photos.

Rolf would say how unimportant it was for your guru to even know your name— that your guru just needed to know *you*.

It meant something to me when you gave me a hug and called me “Big Mike. “ I felt very seen, Rolf. I have so much work to do, because I am still waiting to hear your voice again.

Please keep my family and me in your prayers. It pains me to say, but I think maybe we are all a little better having Rolf on a different plane — maybe just maybe — somehow helping to elevate all of our consciousness further. I need it. We need it.

I have many stories about my time in goa and with Rolf that I love to tell, but they are for in person. Maybe come for thali and I’ll tell you all about him.

Full power, Rolfji. Easy come, easy go.

my bro & me
2011

please pray for my loved ones **this is my teachers altar, on his rooftop shala.
I never thought I'd share a picture of it.
I practiced right here every day for a few years.

It is very special to me. My teacher has asked for prayers.

please