I often think of yoga as a practice which moves beyond the boundaries of the spoken word. I did my first teacher training in Cologne, Germany—at a time that I didn’t speak more than a handful of ...

There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

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It is commonly understood that yoga means union, oneness, bliss. It is not so commonly understood, however, that Patanjali, the so-called originator of Classical Yoga, had nothing to do with it.

Everyone around us struggles in marriage. But you wouldn’t know it because most people feel bad about their struggle, so they hide it. I have yet to meet a couple who were not challenged to some ...

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The Myth of the Self. Imagine standing on a scenic mountain peak and looking out at the world in all directions without any obstructions. These days, if we see someone behaving selfishly, we might say ...

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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, ...

I am quite familiar with the story about Buddha’s enlightenment under that fateful banyan tree in Bodh Gaya. But until recently, I was much less familiar with his wandering ways before he became ...