The other day I got an email from Cal Newport. He’s proposing to his email list the idea of doing a “digital declutter” in the month of January. It’s part of a study for his next book. Here’s how he defines a digital declutter: "…you take a 30-day break from optional technologies in your personal life … Continue reading Do You Need A Digital Declutter?
How To Iron A Shirt
How To Iron A Shirt Where to Start and Why I always iron the collar first. It’s not that the collar should be ironed first, I just start here because I want to see what I’m up against. When I open up the shirt on the board to iron the collar, I can see how … Continue reading How To Iron A Shirt
5 Ways To Be A Better Yoga Teacher
I'm a sucker for Advice-driven posts like this. I cannot resist, "3 Ways to Achieve Enlightenment in Your Lifetime," or "10 ways to Stop Cravings.". I bite every time. So here's my own "list post" giving myself the Yoga Teaching advice I need. Number 1. Don’t close your eyes when you teach. This is really … Continue reading 5 Ways To Be A Better Yoga Teacher
The Yoga of Kettlebells
I won’t pick up a kettlebell here at home and swing it. I will only swing a kettlebell or do a squat or a push-up or a sit-up if I pay someone to watch me. Lifting weights and all that jazz is not something I will do here at home, alone. Even though I have … Continue reading The Yoga of Kettlebells
Ireland Rocks
And the people of Ireland still have this smell of old on them. Even the millennials with their cigarettes and tight hipster clothes.
The First of 94 Days
Today is the Summer Solstice and I have decided to do a summer Project: 94 day of Yoga. Here is the video I took after completing 108 Suns at the studio this evening.
The Spirituality of Whimsicality
(This is an older post) As a yoga teacher, the hardest and most terrifying class for me to teach is the first day of Beginner Yoga. The students walk in pale, fat, worried, neurotic, clutching their little bottles of Dasani like they’re some totemic objects that will protect them from weird, patchouli smelling Hindu spirits, … Continue reading The Spirituality of Whimsicality
Don’t Let a Yoga Class Hijack Your Yoga
Tonight there were a few people in Power Yoga that were anxious about it. They signed up for the Yoga Challenge but they were leery about this particular class. One of these people was Liz. So I wrote this post to her, and to anyone who has found themselves in the deep end of the … Continue reading Don’t Let a Yoga Class Hijack Your Yoga
Manatee Yoga
It's not that I don't like Yin, I do. I like it too much. But I feel like a manatee when I do Yin. I'm an unrepentant flow-hacker and there is no way to get into flow for me during Yin. Yin is like therapy, or a massage. Yin is for an off day. I … Continue reading Manatee Yoga
It’s on. Bring it.
Today is April fool's day. The first day of the Yoga Challenge. A rainy, cold, and crappy day. I had to get up and get going. I had to be "on.” Lots of "on." First-day- of-Yoga-Challenge "on." Class started slow, then amped up. With lots of breathing. Breathing is hard. Harder than it should be, … Continue reading It’s on. Bring it.
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