School is back and many children who spent their summers running through sprinklers, building sand castles at the beach, riding bikes in the neighborhood, and swimming on the swim team are now at their desks. After nearly 20 years of teaching mindfulness yoga programs...
The practice of yoga and what I have learned at yoga camp has made me realize how lucky I am to live in a world where the grass is green and where all of this is possible. Since I was a little kid, I have always asked if something is wrong or right. Whether it was in...
At the beginning of the pandemic I wrote a Blog called Life Whiplash. I think it pretty much summed up the impact that lockdown had on my mental health and livelihood. Fast forward a year and half later to this year I call Whack-A-Mole. Maybe you are feeling this too,...
Homeless Dancing It is an annual tradition of summer yoga camp to take the oldest campers out one day for a couple hours to feed the homeless. This year 2021 we are still in a pandemic from Covid and so the need is even greater as so many people have suffered great...
It was 2008 and I was watching the economy collapse, my yoga studio slip through my fingers, and the world I thought was indestructible disappear from view. There was one shining light and that was that it was an election year, and I like many were hopeful. After 8...
In the classic book, To Know Your Self by Sri Swami Satchidananda one of the chapters is called If You Tune, You Hear the Music. I wonder if what we are mostly tuned into isn’t static, white noise, and the vrittis or monkey mind or the chaos of our minds. I...
