The nice gentleman currently assisting in the yoga shala has been helping me with a couple of poses, and the recurring theme of his advice to me has been "bandas and breath", as in "tighten your banda…
Back in November, Dave Winer wrote:
BTW, people note that my river is mostly mainstream pubs. That's because bloggers are publishing so little these days. I subscribe to lots of blogs. But they aren'…
I admit I look with wistful admiration at creative minds in different fields who seem to be living life on their own terms: select entrepreneurs, of course; also Ira Glass a…
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wa…
I'm studying with a man who is arguably one of the greatest yoga teachers on the planet, and the experience has been magic and life-changing for me. The energy in the shala, the culture around it, the…
In the past month, I've had several massive breakthroughs, both in my yoga practice (padmasana, maricyasana d, supta kurmasana, dropbacks, and completing all of primary series), in my love life, in my…
More from the collective superstition department: The ban on using iPads and phones on planes:
A year ago, when I first asked Les Dorr, a spokesman for the F.A.A., why the rule existed, he said the a…
From the excellent book Radical Forgiveness by Colin Tipping:
When we feel disconnected from someone, we cannot love them. When we judge a person (or ourselves) and make them wrong, we withhold love.…
When I was a kid and we were in vacation in southern Europe, I loved coming into one of those really old catholic churches and savoring the stillness, the cool air, and the weird echoy acoustics there…
I was able to do Maricyasana D on both sides for the first time today. Yay!
My 38-year old body is opening up nicely. I started this yoga practice in May in New York City. Continued it over the next c…
