understanding the mind To understand the mind you cannot interpret it according to somebody else’s idea, but you must observe how your own total mind works. When you know the…
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embody your Self From the Buddhist point of view, we are each responsible for our own situation, whether we care to admit it or not. We are all active participants…
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The ancient Vedic texts of India state that our whole body is built around two things: the food that comes into the mouth and the words that come out of the…
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focus on the content, not the container When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are…
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summer solstice + hotel edison It does not matter if you are a rose, or a lotus, or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering. Osho I recently…
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My dear friend Aditi was featured as part of Well+Good’s Sweat Series in partnership with Athleta, and she included me in filming this 5-minute yoga-inspired core sequence to strengthen and…
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don’t let it happen so fast Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. Ralph Waldo Emerson As occasional bursts of heat begin to steamroll past…
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for better or for worse Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees. B.K.S. Iyengar, Light On Life I came home from…
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from ayurveda, yoga, healers and teachers Maybe you are searching in the branches, for what only appears in the roots. Rumi I wrote on a recent Instagram post that my perceptions…
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Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Buddha Come the culmination of winter, we naturally feel the proverbial ants in our pants to…
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If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. Amit Ray I expressed to teachers Mark McLaughlin and Nikki Costello in their…
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Why bother about the rays of yesterday? They have been absorbed, digested; they have become part of the green, the red, and the gold. The tree is enjoying this morning’s…
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