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Category Archives: Yoga and Life

Never compare yourself to your heroes; look back instead

Last night, as I labored at my drafting table to calligraph an Aramaic text on a ketubah print, I distracted my aching hand by listening to a Third Tribe seminar with Sonia Simone and Johnny B. Truant. It was a fun interview, but one part in particular really stuck with me: The reminder not to… Continue Reading

Headstands, Training Wheels and the Quest for Ever-Elusive Balance

Funny: although I have crazy fear of doing a headstand in the middle of the room, I can float my legs up no problem when I’m near a wall. It’s psychological, of course, but that wall also serves a useful purpose: just knowing the wall is there to catch me lets me push further into… Continue Reading

S&M + Yoga = 5 Cool Life Lessons

Okay, it’s not really S&M, exactly… But still sorta edgy. Read on… – My jivamukti yoga teacher, Giselle, really knows how to push my buttons. Giselle always structures her class around a theme of the month, and this month’s theme is Fear. Perfect timing! As I move through what Pam Slim calls the Change Cycle… Continue Reading