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I love my job-- this evening, I'm teaching rooftop yoga for Carr Workplaces. Does your off…
2017
Recorded some of the stuff I do when I'm horsing around at the gym. svadhyaya isn't always fun, but so nice when …
Post singing lesson selfie. Two years with Dr Miskie-- and I've learned and grown so much. She's been trying to co…
You do t always know when you're looking in the wrong place for what you think you need. Trust your intuition, and…
Kindness, love, and bliss are infinite metrics that are tells of practice. You have to be willing to be hurt, to …
WHAT MAKES A GOOD MANTRA? One that works! I often sing "When you're good to mama" from Cabaret to myself when I …
Charlie's kinda wondering why I skipped happy hour. After a day of teaching, my singing lesson, cleans, deadlifts…
"you look ready for the day!" I said. "I am," she replied. "one more plaque to go, for the front. Its of me and my…
In this life, I'm insanely lucky to be coming up on two and three decades of friendship with folks-- and these two…
I spent Canada Day biking, napping, and lazing. Also dancing and ducking (no, for once that isn't ab auto correct …
Freedom, 1776. But, then again in June 26, 2015. The third 4th of July as someone viewed as equal under the law he…
Led primary was filled with folks I've had the good fortune to work with for over three years each (wow!!) So, I p…
A little collage with some of my most influential teachers: David, Rolf, and Sharath. Marci (who is very much one …
WHY WE SHOULD SEE THEIR NAMES: Freedom of assembly has an inherent imperative towards integrity that silent suppor…
So, to recap: there's a day of the dead skeleton riding a giant cock into battle with a paddleboard oar on the la…
Tomorrow at 4 -- @hotspotdupont -- I'll be sharing the 26+2 sequence in a 60-minute format. It is one of the most …
Vasthistha, the great sage, lead a peaceful community-- the kind where people got on swell and took care of each o…
The Gayatri Mantra, written by Rishi Vishvamitra, is mentioned in the Buddha's Pali Canon, the Bhagavad-Gita, and …
@davidgarriguesyoga is doing a Led 1/2 Primary and talk on Thanksgiving at @ashtanganation -- 8am. Wanna take a yogi field trip? I excited-- this is his first time teaching in Northern Virginia in quite some time. Come raise money to fight childhood obes…
Even as she molded this flesh like clay, she knew it wasn't hers. The parts of me that stuck to her were as happenstance and inevitable as the parts of her that stuck to me. She was not god, not molding me in her image, but wanting only for me to find mi…
Musica universalis, literally the music of the universe. This music may not actually be audible, but is in fact observable in the relationship of movement and object proportions— particularly prescient when discussing celestial bodies— the sun, the moon.…
“We call this mosquito net green. But how do you know what I see as green looks like what you see as green? No, all we can say is that we both agree that this thing we see is that which we both call green... which tells us nothing about either the net or…
At #DCAshtanga, we value cultural exchange, and denounce bigotry and oppression of all stripes. Here I️ am doing forest yoga, not to be confused with Forrest Yoga. Did you know we have the best landlady— @gratefulweirdo who owns and operates @kaliyog…
2018
I was reminded that Shankrathi was coming up by this beautiful lady. Shankranthi is a harvest festival, one of the highlights being the adorned cows.
Back in Panjim, after the shortest visit with @livelyogini -- but a total adventure. I had almost forgotten quite how amazing dusty ol' Mysore is. Kingfisher is 70 rupees for a big bottle strong in Goa. It's like 215 there. Funny, no?
Each of us has a perspective that is informed by where we are at any given time. Here, quite literally, the golden hour looks different than it does in America. The light hits the earth in a different kind of way... Colors take on a different vibrancy. …
Jo lives without a smartphone. She doesn't text. In fact, she checks her emails to coordinate plans. For the last five years, weve just happened to bump into each other-- every year.
My teacher's buddy carved this ages ago. The water has smoothed it a bit, and it looks almost as though it was formed via the laping of waves. 🌊 The beach is covered in shacks now-- many advertising the rock, capitalizing on its beauty. On one hands,…
🚥What should be abolished must first be cherished. —Tao Te Ching chapter 36 🚥 Practicing methodically, keeping a very firm attention to detail, creates a solid foundation (bio-mechanically and spiritually). Sometimes, this can begin to feel like a b…
💪🏻💀The body is a phenomenal tool for understanding the phenomenal world. Just as gravity and relativity help us explain and predict, so too can our bodies do the same for our individual relationship with the here and now. 🤸‍♀️💪🏻Am I breathing? Ho…
Mayurasana: the posture named for the peacock. This one doesn't get its title from the full plume of the birds tail feathers, but because your elbows dig so deeply into a soft tummy, it's said to give the yogi the digestive power of the beautiful bird. …
Which witch is which? So many of my friends follow the moon and the stars and set intentions and play with crystals and read tarot cards and cast spells. 🔮Confession: I love it. The overlap of yoga and mysticism doesn't surpriss me. It's the attent…