SOME DISCLAIMERS I’ve never seen any of my past lives. I don’t believe yoga asana will get you enlightened. I don’t think drinking...

Right after ‘graduating’ my first 200 hour yoga teacher training, I threw myself into teaching. Thinking back on it now, I’m struck by...

These days, it seems that yoga has become a service that you purchase in the same way that you might purchase a massage, a manicure or a...

Most people who I encounter on the so called 'spiritual' path, have come to it because they want to change themselves. They want to feel...

The most pro-social social media use is to not use it. But as always, there's 'bad' in the 'good' and 'good' in the 'bad.' There...

If there's such a thing, I'm pretty sure that for most of us, that would mean getting off these brain drain apps and platforms...

I recently got that question while teaching a retreat. I answered no. I don't believe in free will. So how could I believe that...

"People who intentionally become famous – I mean people who, after a little taste of fame, want more and more of it – are, and I honestly...

These days yoga seems to be whatever anyone says it is. In that sense YOGA is kind of like WOMAN :) Language is always just a...

I live and work on an island to which millions of holiday makers come every year. These days, many of these holidaymakers want to do yoga...

It's been a few years now, since I started writing this 'series' on wanting to become a yoga teacher. Much of what I previously wrote, I...

Jim Morrison sang: People are Strange, When You're a Stranger. What the Buddha discovered under that Banyan tree, back when he woke up...

I've had the honour and privilege to work with many new teachers via the mentorship program I occasionally offer. When I ask mentees why...

You can only connect the dots when you look back. At the age of 19 I had an acid trip that forever changed the trajectory of my life....

I hated physical education in school. I sucked at every single ball sport, I sucked at track and field. I could not run fast. I was very...

This morning I woke up to the news of the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin -- a piece of news I had eagerly awaited. That a person who...

The Buddha said: I teach one thing, and one thing only: Suffering (dukkha) and the end of suffering. According to the Buddha desire and...

A little while ago I read about a study, where people from a few different countries were asked to make themselves happier. The people...

The Brahmaviharas, or the Four Immeasurables, are mind states, or feelings that we cultivate when we practice meditation. Here I will...

Like most people, I get The Pandemic Blues from time to time. I had it really bad around the holidays. I was resisting the way things...