Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

The Spiritual Meaning of Anger

Understanding the spiritual meaning of anger and accepting its message can be liberating.

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Writing to Connect to your Body

A major aspect of my practice has always been about coming home to my body. We live in a culture that doesn’t always honor the body; we tend instead to objectify it as this thing t…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Is Downward Dog an Invention of the 20th Century?

When I first started practicing yoga, I thought it was a 5000-year-old practice. I thought when I stretched back into Downward Dog that I was tapping into an ancient system of yoga…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

How Your Search for Happiness is Making You Miserable

Happiness: we all want it, and we want to know how to get it. We read books about it, try to buy it, and attempt to pin it down in a lab. We get close to happiness—we fall in love,…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

The Power of Your Mistakes

We are living in a time of more choice than ever before. Not only can we order pretty much anything online, we are free to marry whoever we want whenever we choose, we can pursue w…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

The Real Secret of Yoga (Isn’t the Yoga)

Often when we hear the word “yoga,” we think of static physical postures like Downward Dog or Headstand. But what if yoga wasn’t about the pose at all? What if the postures were mo…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Stop Opening Your Hips: Yoga for SI Joint Pain

I’ve been dealing with pain right between my sacrum and my pelvis at the joint where the spine and hips meet, for years. I’ve been to massage therapists, chiropractors, and sports …

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

The Wisdom of Uncertainty

One of the best things about yoga, for me, has been learning to tap into the wisdom of my body. We live in a very thinking oriented culture, and when I’ve been worried about someth…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Foreboding Joy

“The best thing about yoga,” a teacher of mine used to say, “is that it makes you more sensitive. The worst thing about yoga is that it makes you more sensitive.” We sometimes get …

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

In Defense of Hands-On Adjustments

Hands on adjustments are a relatively common but also quite controversial aspect of yoga classes. Strong adjustments have been known to lead to snapped hamstrings or popped knees, …

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

The Goddess of Vulnerability: Bherunda Nitya

If you look up at the moon on the fourth night from now, you’ll see a beautiful crescent shape. If it’s close enough to the horizon, it’s often a sweet hazy golden color. The godde…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

The Spirituality of Desire

Sexual desire is intoxicating. Sex also connects us deeply to one another and to the present moment.