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Social Media Blues

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...

STHIRA SUKHAM ASANAM

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...

My Yoga is the Right Yoga

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...

Break on through to the other side

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...

The empty space beyond a dream coming true

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...

Yoga Against the Machine

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

Yoga as Rebellion

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...

Connected/Disconnected

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

The only way out is through

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...

When life gives you lemons ...

I was living in New York City on the 11th of September, 2001. That day also ended the relationship with my first live-in boyfriend in a...