The Space Between Dreams and Reality

Aug 23, 2016 | Blog, Svadyaya

About 10 years ago I moved to Paris to write and instead spent 4 months eating croissants and wandering the city desperately trying to speak French to those who didn’t insist on English. I barely opened my computer. I thought I just didn’t have the ambition to...

What Drew Me Into Yoga Philosophy

Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Practice, Svadyaya

I bought my first book on yoga philosophy, a translation of the yoga sutras of Patanjali How to Know God, around the time of my first yoga class back in 2000. At the time I was practicing kundalini and was longing to understand better why yoga left me feeling so good...

Arriving Here

Jan 6, 2016 | Blog, Listen, Practice

I know it’s the time of year when we tend to set ambitious resolutions or intentions for how this will be the best year yet. And I’m not discouraging that. I haven’t been feeling that this week. Usually I have a list started, a word I want to focus...

What Mask Do You Wear?

Dec 30, 2015 | Blog, Listen, Love, Nourish

In Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom, yoga teacher Colleen Saidman Yee writes in a line that gets to the raw heart of authenticity: The term Satya means “truthfulness” in Sanskrit. So many of us are lying to ourselves; we’re putting...