Paradise Is Just Having Enough
What if paradise isn’t abundance or success, but the quiet shock of realizing you only need a small, specific enough?
Who Is Your Honesty For?
“I’m just being honest.” This sentence has preceded more cruelty than almost anything else I know. It’s used to justify whatever someone wanted to say, frame unkindness as virtue, and make the person on the receiving end feel small for minding. The speaker’s conscience clears. The harm still lands. There’s a distinction worth naming, because most people never make it: honesty as information versus honesty as punishment. Honesty as information: you say something true because the person in front of you needs it to move forward. The content matters. The timing matters. The relationship matters. You’re trying to transfer something useful. The measure of success is whether they could actually use it. Honesty as punishment: you say something true because you’re frustrated, because you’ve decided…
You Are the Watcher
What it actually means to “observe your feelings” — without pretending they aren’t real.
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.
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.
When self-inquiry becomes the product you resent
The polite version says abundance mindset. The honest version is that the math doesn’t work for most people teaching yoga. Not because they lack dedication. Not because they’re doing it wrong. Because…
The Anxious Generation Needs Pratyahara
Pratyahara — withdrawal from constant stimulation — isn’t escapism. It’s reclaiming your attention from algorithms designed to hijack it.
A recent Newsweek investigation into Gen Z women reveals what many of us already suspect: an entire generation is drowning in anxiety. Forty percent of young women want to leave the country permanently. A third feel anxious about the future almost all the time. Their friends are cycling through antidepressants like they’re trying on jeans. The culprits are familiar. Economic precarity. Climate doom. A dating landscape that treats people like products. And underneath it all, the relentless hum of nervous system overload from being constantly online.
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Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/the-anxious-generation-needs-pratyahara/
Original source: https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-women-quiet-crisis-11686238
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Concepts: Pratyahara · Santosha · Samskaras · Dharana
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When Your Past Self Makes You Cringe
The discomfort of remembering our past judgments is evidence of growth, not failure—it shows us the cultural scripts we’ve learned to question.
Looking back at how we judged others reveals how much we've grown in understanding consent, compassion, and complexity. From America's Next Top Model: Reality Check – Shandi's Story on rollingstone.com
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Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/when-your-past-self-makes-you-cringe/
Original source: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/americas-next-top-model-reality-check-netflix-shandi-1235505370/
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Concepts: Svadhyaya · Ahimsa · Dharma · Shadow
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