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 ...

Having watched both MILK (the Oscar-winning movie starring Sean Penn) and THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (the Oscar-winning documentary) today back-to-back, I’m more than a little verklempt. Both films are just SO GOOD … particularly when you watch them together and see how astonishing the performanc...

Just got back from Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore etc.) at the New York Public Library and the host –– who was both utterly charming and unbelievably insufferable –– felt compelled to read from Roland Barthes’ list of Likes and Dislikes. I’m too windblown –– my iPhone says it feel...

  Perhaps my all-time favorite inspirational quote  comes from Winston Churchill: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Particularly since it sometimes feels like everyone successful was assigned a publicist at birth, crafting perfect sound bites about ...