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Ashtanga Toe Woe: I got 99 Problems (and my Big Toes are Two)
I got a big (toe) problem. I heard about “ashtanga toe” when I was a green, still-dipping-my-toes-in-the-water-ashtanga-kid who knew not the great fortune that landed her a few blocks away from the...
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Home Practice Helpers
The messages that come to me through Facebook share a common theme: queries about home practice and related accoutrements (or how I cut up my t-shirts, so stay tuned for a separate post on that). In...
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Sh*t Gets Real with Sharath Pt. 1: Forty-three (and a half) worries about led...
Kino Macgregor is real. She doesn’t just exist as a digital, pocket sized Instagram post; no, she is definitely real, because I see her three-dimensional form upon entering the sprawling UCLA...
View ArticleI lost my Sh*t: Still not a rainbow butterfly unicorn kitten
Last Friday evening I lost my sh*t (on my other half). Ok, so it wasn’t that bad. But to make matters worse, it happened in front of a new babysitter — someone who takes yoga classes with me — on the...
View ArticleFive Lessons From Led Second With Sharath
The first time I did a led second series class I didn’t know what I was in for — not even all the poses. The second time was different; or, rather, I was different: I knew too much. In the past year or...
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Do the Unstinkable: Six ways to stink less
No fancy yoga shirts were harmed in this practice Every so often I lay my mat down only to be assaulted by the smell of, to put it mildly, teen spirit? I’m all for being wild and free, but that does...
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What I learned About Teaching From Feeling Body-Shamed in Yoga Class
The yoga teacher was drunk.* She was preditcably, annoyingly and self-absorbedly drunk on a god-like belief that I was broken and she could fix me. Yes, she must have been drunk to believe that in one...
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Aloha and Mysore Magic in Kauai
When preparing to travel to Kauai to vacation with family (and get mysore practice in at Pineapple Yoga), I didn’t feel all sweet excitement. Indeed I was a little sick the day we left. I felt further...
View ArticleI flunked the test: Practicing amid Tragedy
It was beautiful the morning the boy next door never woke up. I step outside, beckoned by the sun that now surrounds me, along with despair, the sound of which rings unforgettably in my ears, police...
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Blank Space, Baby: Lessons from Led Class in Mysore
I just got back from Mysore, and as a predominantly self-practicing ashtangi I was really looking forward to led classes with Sharath — I mean what a treat! — but as it turned out: I hated led class....
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“Why You So Impatient?” : Lessons from Mysore
“Why you so impatient?” I jerked my head up. Me. Sharath was talking to me. Or, rather, yelling at me: “Why you so impatient? Sit down. Relax!” There I was, standing at attention in the foyer before...
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Mysore Bathroom Practice Throwback: Nobody puts baby in the corner
I showered every morning with a dead cockroach. For at least a night or two, a wasp became my third roommate. I narrowly missed the monkeys getting freaky outside my front door (perhaps the most action...
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The (Mysore) Martian, Part I
I’m pretty much fucked. That’s my considered opinion. Fucked. I’m hours into what should be the greatest month of my life– hell, I haven’t even left the ground yet — but this trip’s already turned into...
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Stop Glorifying Class Numbers
just a little practice with me and a few friends For the love of kombucha and coconuts, please stop glorifying class numbers. I get a Drumpfian tingle when I read them– posts, yours (and mine) touting...
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Not an Asshole Anymore
This morning I woke at 5:30 to go to Mysore practice in Salt Lake City. The drive is a little over a half hour, and I like to be awake for a bit before I head out. I use the time to prepare lunch and...
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The Secret to a Great Home Practice
All by myself, kinda The blogs I’ve written about home practice are kinda, well — Bullshit. Remember this one, lovingly picked up by Ashtanga Dispatch, about how sometimes “showing up is not enough’ —...
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Those Yoga Trends: Yoga with Goats, Green Eggs & Ham
Those yoga trends. Those Yoga trends Do you like your yoga with furry friends? No, I do not want it with a goat I do not want it on a moat. Not even floating on a paddle board? nope– and certainly not...
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DO NOT KICK TIM MILLER IN THE FACE: Tim Miller & Tacos, Labor Day 2017
For the record, I didn’t kick Tim Miller in the face, though whether that’s due to luck, my silent prayers of “DO NOT KICK TIM IN THE FACE” or Tim’s time-earned dodging abilities, I do not know. I...
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America’s Next Top Yoga Teacher: A Reality TV Pitch
“As yoga goes digital, attractiveness is key. A google search of ‘yoga images’ yields hundreds of toned bods, sunsets and long hair. Likewise, Instagram invokes airbrushed perfection made to look...
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Home Alone: 20 Reasons Why Home Practice Rules
Every so often I hear from people suddenly sentenced to home yoga practice for perhaps a day, a trip, or the foreseeable future. Different people all expressing the same exact feeling: Doom. As in, I’m...
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