Sep 8, 2021 | Council, Communication and Authentic Relating, Most Popular, Whole Life Yoga
On The Longing For Village and Conversation I am finding the lack of village more and more painful to bear, the isolation, the lack of engaged, supportive community of shared ethos. I want to live amidst people willing to witness, support, inquire at the level I feel...
Sep 4, 2021 | Musings, Yogic Movement
On Injury and Health, Life and Death I injured my knee at the beginning of August. A month on, I was asked: ‘How is your knee?’ Well, it is not yet functioning to allow full range of motion. Plyometric training not yet on the menu. Neither am I yet playing football or...
Sep 2, 2021 | Mythology, Practical Philosophy
On Fullness and Emptiness, Pūrna and Ṡūnya, Wholeness and Zero Excerpt from course notes for an Indian mythology course I gave earlier this year. Here and there the text is referring to ideas we explored in greater detail in the class, but I think what I share here...
Sep 2, 2021 | Yogic Movement
Fighting Monkey Reflection – 2021 Zero and Wholeness Injury and Health I had been interested in Fighting Monkey for several years. 2020, with all my in-person work cancelled, I was able to join their summer intensive. This year, I returned to Ancient Olympia,...
Jun 13, 2021 | Practical Philosophy, Whole Life Yoga, Yogic Movement
Life, Yoga and Contact Improvisation AND I Want to Live in a World Where People Dance on Train Station Platforms My friend Paul, with whom I have co-taught a few times in different places, is a long-time Contact Improvisation practitioner. We have usually taught in...