A few years ago Ayahuasca became a buzz word on the yoga scene. All of a sudden many friends and associates were reporting having deeply...

A couple of years ago, my back was so out of whack that I needed help from friends and lovers to put on socks and shoes. And rolling over...

Yesterday morning I took the U-bahn to Wedding to meditate with Mother Meera. By her devotees, this South Indian woman is considered to...

Ok. So you now have your 200/500 hour YTT diploma and you are ready to rock? You are ready to teach and hopefully make some money doing...

Well, you are certainly not alone. More and more people hear the calling. But why do you want to teach yoga? Do you dream of traveling...

My ex-husband, whose opinion on yoga is that it’s boring and that it hurts, always used to say that everyone who is into yoga and...

I am deeply worried. About where our current lifestyles are taking us. And what our habits, addictions and devices are doing to us. A few...

My meditation teacher urges us to meditate two hours per day: one hour in the morning and one in the evening. For years I thought of that...

As famously outlined by Patanjali in The Yoga Sutras, the path of yoga starts out by observing certain ethical or moral rules; The Yamas...

I need to acknowledge here, that I borrowed this title from J. Brown, who was one of my first teachers, and who runs an interesting...

I told myself last night: the first thing you will do tomorrow morning, after meditation, is to write a blog post. The alarm sounded at...

I shut down my Facebook account about seven years ago, and never looked back. I have led a globetrotting life, and I know a lot of...

This is probably the most quoted aphorism from one of the most iconic text on yoga 'Patanjai's Yoga Sutras.' It is also the only mention...

Have you ever come across a yoga teacher, or a school of yoga that claimed, or implied that 'their' yoga is the only true yoga? That any...

In early 2007 my life was a total mess. I was sleeping on a leaking air mattress, on the floor of a rundown shotgun house in a rough...

Have you ever felt empty after a dream came through? Felt hollow after a goal was reached? Experienced a void opening up inside you once...

When I first got serious about yoga (read: asana), I loved the super-sweaty classes with the mega-impossible pretzel-y asanas and the...

When I got into yoga it was a fairly weird thing to get into. I remember the first yoga studio I ever went to, Integral Yoga in the West...

I am old enough to remember life without mobile phones. Life without Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tinder. In fact, I am old enough to...

I have always had an ambivalent relationship to so called romantic love. One one hand, I am madly in love with love. I have been a...