Greetings yogis! Fall is when we put fresh fire into our practice. Classes are back on in El Sargento for those of you who are local...

I just love this little film (scroll down) featuring my "soul sister," artist Shelley Hocknell Zentner of South Lake Tahoe. Although we...

I once led a group meditation in which I invited the participants to contemplate the notion that because they were expressions of the...

The very first lesson in A Course in Miracles states: Nothing I see means anything. And your first thought is probably, "How can that be?...

This is from another Quora response which has gotten more than 500 upvotes thus far. The original question was “What is the dark side of...

What are the pros and cons of enlightenment? For one thing, you won’t have to ask that question.

Does it all feel like bleakness and grasping and doom? I hear you, and I know how challenging it is to stay connected to our hearts when...

Featured on Insight Timer: Breaking Through Limiting Thoughtforms guided meditation.

I had another encounter with death yesterday. Its presence was already palpable, what with hundreds of thousands dead and dying from the...

One happy outcome of yogic practice is that as we clear away our inner clutter, it makes space for Logos to shine through.

We cannot defeat the demons of others any more than we can "defeat" our own. However, we can acknowledge that we contain them.

Not only do we fight ourselves by criticizing our literal reflections, we despise those parts of ourselves that other people model to us.

Pranayama is not just one of the eight limbs of Raja Yoga, it is the platform upon which we build three others: dharana, dhyana & samadhi.

Once upon a time I envisioned myself as a poet, but poetry is a notoriously poverty inducing profession so I pursued journalism instead...

A spiritual Awakening is still a fairly rare thing ... and if that term is not familiar to you, I encourage you to visit Jim Tolles'...

My apologies for the extended hiatus between blog posts. I have been hunkered down in Mexico riding out the proverbial "dark night of the...