Hiding being the still thriving cabbage, some mysterious and beautiful new growth.

In this time of increasingly shocking divisiveness, it’s easy to forget what the word “yoga” really means. The Sanskrit root actually means “to unite.” One of the most helpful things I’ve read this week was this Taoist Parable shared by Alan Briskin: During a time of gre...

Last night, my wonderful student Shelley had a Crow Pose Breakthrough in my class at the beautiful Exhale Mind Body Spa. People usually think the secret to arm balances is greater upper body strength or more core. But it’s not about “muscling through.” Instead, it’s usually two th...

I’d forgotten that a huge case of 70 DVDs was arriving for the indie film I’m a producer on, WITH CHILD. I had a second surprise when I opened the box to see that although I had one DVD in my possession already as a gift from the leading lady/producer Leslie Lewis, that I’d never looked a...

I almost worried that my upstairs neighbors or those walking by on the street might think I’d murdered a tiny person and was getting rid of the body. As you can see, that’s what the disposal of my arbor vitae pretty much looked like. The rest of my Urban Garden is a total triumph. The mint and ...

  Working away on the new book proposal and have decided that NOW is the time to really get down with the material. IE, if you really want to master something, just try teaching it. So this Sunday from 1:30 to 3:30 I’m doing a semi-secret (and totally FREE) Beta-Testing Workshop of the content. ...

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 ...

Although I’m currently working on a new book and associate producing a completed feature film, it may seem to casual readers that all I do is play Transformation (basically a board game best described as spiritualized Monopoly). Well,  last week I had my first go at Transformation since New Year’s Eve and ...

Have now told the story of the new play I’m writing as an exercise to three humans, mostly as a way of exposing to myself where there are holes and things I’ve glossing over –– like “everything gets resolved” –– before fully launching in, and I’m happily pleased that I seem to...