Edward

These days I’m semi-obsessed with Freecycle.  It’s how I got my $600 Dyson for the price of a cab ride.  So this summer when my terrace was sadly empty, I posted about wanting some large plants and trees. One morning last month I got an exciting response to my post, rearranged my day, and withi...

Forget about endless Chaturanga. Savasana might just be the most challenging pose for many type-A yogis. Even B.K.S. Iyengar himself admits that: (for the rest of my essay, check it out online at Mind Body Green.  

Recently, I innocently tweeted: “I don’t really know what ‘Power Yoga’ is but apparently I’m teaching it at 12:30 today. Let’s figure it out together!” As someone who has been teaching for over a dozen years, I thought it was obvious that I was joking and most of ...

For a non-professional, I’m a pretty good sight reader and I can more or less bluff my way through most of Mozart’s piano sonata in F (K. 332), having studying it centuries ago in college. The challenging thing for me is oddly always this one passage in the middle of the slow movement where the...

In a recent game of Transformation, I drew this card — one I’d gotten only once or twice before — that really hit home for me in a new way: Years ago, this particular message — that “vulnerability is perfect protection” — not only did not really register with me,...

Today I finished an edit of a wonderful new fitness workbook (I’m being annoyingly coy because I’m not sure what the release strategy etc. is) but when my author friend asked about my application of the material … I could only reply that it would be to do my annual dropback photo shoot th...

Recently over lunch with a dear friend, she shared a brilliant re-definition of Surrender: CLICK to Surrender & Transform It’s been a VERY rough week and I’ll be honest:  SURRENDERING is definitely the lesson I most need to learn. And after teaching yoga for nearly 15 years — even th...

For years I taught at a major yoga center where we were encouraged / required to chant. In many ways, I loved doing this, although I have a complicated, uncertain relationship with Hindu dieties. (My dear friend Bryn, however, seems to be on an intimate, first-name bases with them.  Seriously –– it’s like ...

Read through and noted all my (multitude of) questions re: the book I’m editing. 3.5 hour meeting with the memoirist to gain insights. And then listened to my super-great, ultra-crackpot reading of my Human Design Chart reading (via MP3), which is actually 3 readings and about 5 hours long. And well ...