For the past month or so, I've been hosting a weekly yoga class. My intention was to gain teaching experience while helping my friends better cope with the challenges of the difficult times that we're living in. I've realized that the real value of the weekly sessions are to connect and check-in. While I usually …
Category: meditate
Progress may be a stretch
I am a firm believer in habits, good or bad... they work. So, if we get to choose good habits and choose bad habits, we should do so carefully. This was the theme of my January. I kicked the month of strong - Aiming to meditate just 10 minutes each day. Up to this point, …
Dude-asana
The Big Lebowski is one of my all-time favorite movies. But it had been years since I watched it and recently found myself wanting to check out of reality and clicking on the Dude. Since I had last seen it, I have spent hundreds of hours on the mat and another 200 hours or so …
Sharing the journey
I led my first beach yoga class recently and, naturally, started with OM. It was a beautiful day in Naples, although the sand fleas were particularly feisty and left me in an itch coma for days afterwards. This is a good example of how deceiving pictures can be since there was a lot of yoga-bliss …
Go with the flow
This book - Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - was on my reading list for as long as I can remember and it did not disappoint. It is a book about yoga... it is a book about running... it is a book about life and how to find happiness. Not the superficial kind of happiness that …
Why start with OM
Friends, I have a new blog to share yoga practices that can help and support runners and people who are new to yoga. Please visit and sign up to get emails. Why start with OM? I believe that the greatest benefit of yoga for runners is meditation and pranayama (breathing) practices to build a foundation …
meditate
Attitude is everything, particularly for runners. Attitude and outlook can be improved with intentional effort. Meditation can be loosely described as intentional effort that can lead to greater peace through self understanding and increased mental focus and clarity. Yogic philosophy provides a wealth of insights to build a meditation practice and develop a more optimistic, …