There was a time in my life when I taught yoga. (Between 2012 and 2020) I had been a practitioner from 1993 to 2012, and then I wanted to share it. So I learned to teach yoga. In the beginning of my years as a practitioner, one of the most difficult poses for me was always savasana (corpse pose). Which is weird, because it was the one I couldn’t wait for—and it always came at the very end. You just lie down flat and rest.
That’s why I loved it. But what was so hard for me was to actually release into the earth. To let go of all my striving. All through the class, I’d be waiting when we’d get to savasana, wishing we were there already. When we got there, I’d spend the whole time wishing it would never end. Very rarely was I actually in savasana…Read more
Give these books to people for the holidays!
Boy does it feel weird to tout your own stuff. But I’ve gotten great feedback from readers who’ve fallen into my subtle traps, so they’re probably pretty good. (If you buy direct from me, make sure I have an address to send them to!)
Figured out something I can do to help.
I’ve been flailing around, overwhelmed by the amount of suffering in the world, feeling powerless. And then I remembered, I’m NOT. I have one of the more rare blood types. So this Sunday I’m going to give blood. But no matter your blood type, remember there are things you can do, things within your power, maybe things that seem small in the grand scope of things—but every small gestures might make a huge difference in someone’s life. Find something in your own world that you can do to bring relief to a friend, a stranger, anyone. We don’t have to save the whole world. Just the part in front of us. We can do this.