In the sloppy soup of DNA: Tiger Pose
I leave little bits of me everywhere I go. This is an embarrassing thing to admit. After all, much of our childhoods are spent learning how to keep yourself in yourself. You pee in the toilet, you sneeze into a tissue, you wash out your spit in the sink. You don’t leave your toe nail…
Topsy Turvy Tree Flow
Flippy Triangle Flow
Sun Salutation Flow
The Little Prince in the Government Shutdown
What is essential? To you, to your family, to the world? Are you essential? During this government shut down, that’s a question very much on the minds of employees on furlough. Those who are “essential” must come in and work, those who are not cool their heels at home. Who knows when anyone will get…
We are all Guinan, Moana, Eleanor, and Mrs. Maisel in Plato’s Cave
Picture Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Moana, and Mrs. Maisel (the marvelous one) sitting in a cave and staring at a wall. That, in a nutshell, illustrates our battle with existential motion sickness. Bear with me. In philosophy, Plato’s cave analogy is used to show the challenges inherent in how people perceive the…
Down with “Self Care,” Up with “Time In”
The annual pendulum keeps swinging – gluttonous to ascetic, ascetic to gluttonous. Each year, with the drop of a ball, we collectively flip over from one to the other, the advertisers having pre-primed their messages like the dependable prophets they are. When we are in ascetic mode, we having diets and gyms on the brain,…
Introspecting your way from Obscurus to Patronus
If you look closely behind me, you might see my Obscurus. In its most developed, most destructive form, an Obscurus looks wispy, nebulous, and black. You might find it scarring people and wreaking havoc in cities. Mine isn’t usually so obvious to others, but to me it is no less powerful. The Obscurus is most…
Zen in the Pen… taking Yoga with Pigs
Have you ever been in a great yoga class and thought to yourself, “gee, what’s really missing here is pigs”? No? You don’t know what you are missing, you with your mat not covered in a hundred muddy hoof prints. I recently got to take part in a “yoga with pigs” class, mat placed square in…