Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Yoga for Shoulder Health

How often to do you walk on your hands? Do you spend time crawling around the office, or traveling from couch to fridge on your hands? If you’re like most people, the answer is ne…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Cool It Practice: Balancing Yin and Yang in Good Measure

As human animals, we are affected by the weather. We like to think we’re not—our capitalist society expects us to be exactly the same amount of productive no matter what’s going o…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Watch Your Mouth

“Bellydance is a service,” my dance teacher was telling us. “We are offering something of ourselves to the audience, but we must be sure we are in control of how much we are offer…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Breathing: The Poetry of the Body

We know intuitively that our state of mind will affect our breath: it comes quick and jagged when we are agitated, and smooth and slow when we are relaxed. The yogis figured out p…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Yoga after 50, Still Going Strong

The story we are typically told about aging is that it is a downward slope: we get older, weaker, frailer, and sicker. Upon seeing images of young yogis, an older person might thi…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Yoga as Medicine

The other night, my partner got a migraine. He was writhing in bed, ibuprofen scattered around the room, ice packs and hot water bottles strewn everywhere. I did what I do best in…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Is My Body Lying to Me?

“The body never lies,” Janet Stone said in a workshop on the yogic concept of satya, or truth. “We misinterpret it, ignore it, and project our ideas onto it, but the body itself ne…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Recovering from Trauma? Listen to What Your Body’s Trying to Tell You

The massage therapist slid her hand under my sacrum, and waited. I wasn’t sure what this was supposed to feel like and apparently nothing was happening.“What do you feel?” she aske…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Yoga for Releasing Anger

Anger: we all know it, many of us well. But at a yoga party, it would be gauche to bring up the raging intensity sitting in your gut. We’re all focusing on the positive here, right…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Now Is the Time

“Now is the time to know that all you do is sacred.” ~Hafiz Remember that moment on December 21st, 2012, when you wondered if just maybe the Mayans were right and the tides would…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Unpacking the Warrior Poses

Once upon a time, Shiva, the Lord of Yoga, became infuriated to discover that his beloved, Sati, had immolated herself with rage when her father, Daksha, insulted the couple by not…

Pathfinding: Yoga and Mindfulness for a Full Life

Contemplating Injury: What Yoga Has Taught Me About Pain

This is how bad things have gotten: I am squatting on my floor by a low table to write this because I threw out my back again and I am in extreme pain. Pain, however, can lead to r…