For the Love of Productivity We all crave productivity. We want it now and we want it all the time and we certainly want it for the long-term. We can’t imagine being without it, especially when we are after something – a college degree, a certification program, a paper, a book, a speech, a website, [...]
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The 10 Minute Daily Invigorator is LIVE now! Our bodies were meant to be strong, healthy, happy. Our bodies were meant to move, to dance and to breathe life in. Our bodies were meant to be an expression of life force and vitality. Does your body move and breathe just as you want? Does energy [...]
You might have noticed that I love yoga. In fact, it is one of the few passions which I aspire to infuse into everyone because I truly believe that every human body can benefit enormously from yoga. You can certainly do additional great work on that body but infuse it with yoga. Yoga and yoga [...]
“A genius! For 37 years I’ve practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!” –Pablo Sarasate (Spanish violinist) Give Practice some Glory Practice deserves a lot more glory around here, frankly. It is far too often the unpopular accompaniment to success and stardom. It is the unworthy servant next to Gods [...]
How many people do you need to impact by your actions for your efforts to be worthwhile? A hundred? Twenty? A dozen? Maybe one? For me, the answer is simple. If I bring about change and inspiration to at least one person’s life as direct result of how I live mine, that is enough to [...]
Yesterday marked the end of my 31 day yoga and meditation challenge. For the entire month of May, I committed to a minimum of an hour of daily yoga practice and a few minutes of daily meditation. Like most great ideas born of small stuff, this one started from a casual question; I shared my [...]
Am I ever tired of having these conversations with myself: “You cannot do yoga every day”, “You can never get into that twisted pretzel pose, you might hurt yourself”, “You should not try to push your luck. You had some breakthroughs but really, that’s enough for now.” I am determined to vanish these thoughts for [...]
It is only now, after nearly 8 years of on and off the mat yoga practice, growing, regressing, obsessing, trying, giving up, and returning again and again to yoga, that I am making a small breakthrough, one for which I dearly wish a permanent stay. The irony of the breakthrough itself is humbling. It is [...]
The other night, I was lost in the mesmerizing world of photography, browsing from one photographer’s site to another, basking in the stunning photographs, the art, the creativity. Then I watched a short video of a photographer’s journey through his career. During the video, he said, quite simply, “Winter always comes.“, referring to the doubts that [...]
The most rewarding things in life seem to get kick started by an unfortunate event of some sort, it seems. Or is this just true for me? Knee pain from rigorous exercise brought me to yoga. Heart break brought me to the love of my life. And chronic pain from nerves, joints and muscles in my [...]
The day that I had been planning for in the last few months had finally arrived, Monday, November 2nd. The entire living room had been transformed into a photography studio! All the furniture moved about, the rug rolled up, the hardwood able to breathe again, two tall rods on tripods providing a cushion for several long, white, transparent, sheer [...]
Eric Schiffmann‘s book continues to tap into a curiosity that I cannot seem to quench. I still remember taking his class in the only yoga conference I attended in 2003 in New York City when I was too new to yoga to appreciate fully what he was teaching – and yet, he made a permanent [...]
Finding stillness and quiet in the vibrating energy of life is my latest pursuit. A few days ago, feeling hopelessly at the mercy of my persistent left arm pain, I set an intention to turn seriously into my yoga and meditation to heal. I remember my unfinished attempt at the bible of Stillness, the Eric Schiffman [...]
It is not easy to find time to practice things we love. Yoga can fall in that melancholy category. To practice regularly, we need to spend a few minutes every day or every other day on the mat. It is a commitment to the mat and to ourselves and it takes discipline. Discipline has a [...]
