2012: A Year in Review A year for travel, finding myself, getting lost and finding myself again: by all accounts, 2012 was an incredible year. In 2012, I visited Thailand, Haiti, Canada, China and all over the US. I raised …
What are you grateful for? Ah, it’s the question of the season. We are always asking or being asked this one November, and well into December too. I dwell on gratitude significantly more now that yoga is such a substantial …
When I first started teaching yoga, I was afraid I didn’t know enough. I was afraid I didn’t have anything worthwhile to offer. Now, I’ll ceed that the first part was a rational fear. Three and a half years into …
Because my hands ached when I woke, I took a walk; Taking my mind to my footfalls, to the sound of the ground against my feet. Because I could not close my hand, I listened to the grind of the …
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn I find myself weary of my peers who see their bodies as machines. In fact, within the past few years, this viewpoint has moved …
I like to tell myself I was always this way. Or point to the spark that ignited my traveling fire. But what’s the use looking for the beginning or the end? I am still on the road. Over the last …
The other day I was talking to a yoga teacher friend of mine. He was telling me about a prospective private client. She has rheumatoid arthritis, so of course I came to mind. What would you recommend, he wanted to …
I recently started teaching meditation at Harvard Business School as a part of a program geared towards supporting the well being of the school’s faculty assistants. For the first week, I taught a very straight forward meditation. The class focused specifically on …
A Boston-bound Thai massage practitioner messaged me on Facebook a few days before I left Chiang Mai. He implored me to take recordings of the sounds of the places I loved or wanted to remember. He said it was one …
Every morning in Chiang Mai, I had a ritual. Saliomjoy on Ratchadamnoen Road just inside Tha Phae Gate — I’d order a caramel cappuccino, two fried eggs with toast and a fruit salad. It was the perfect morning preparation for a full …