By ryan October 23, 2014 Cooking Food Friends Healthy Cooking Mysore Mysore India Vegan Cooking Vegetarian Cooking Yoga Teachers Yogi Kitchen: Behind the Scenes Adam & Theresa I've been lucky enough to be acquainted with the passion and the brains behind the vegan/vegetarian cooking bl...
By ryan October 23, 2014 answers life questions Questions with no answers Yesterday, I found out that I had not made the shortlist for a tenure-track academic position that I had interviewed for about a month ago, ...
By ryan October 22, 2014 Poem rumi What Hurts the Soul? Mysore, India We tremble, thinking we're about to dissolve into nonexistence, but nonexistence fears even more that it migh...
By ryan October 18, 2014 Ashtanga Yoga Practice diet Food health Yoga Practice Food: A Word In Mysore "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf I've h...
By ryan October 18, 2014 Ashtanga powermilk biscuits shy persons taskrabbit Ashtangarabbits, shy persons, and... powdermilk biscuits (?) Earlier today, I read this article in the New Yorker about a bunch of task websites that have sprung up in the past few years. These sites ...
By ryan October 17, 2014 Carol Horton cultural conditioning culture Jay Winston yoga Yoga Ph.D Can yoga deliver us to a promised land beyond the intellect? Or, a not-quite-review of Carol Horton's Yoga Ph.D I just read this Elephant Journal review by Jay Winston of Carol Horton's book, Yoga Ph.D (which I, incidentally, have not read, but ...
By ryan October 15, 2014 David Garrigues India injury pain Sharath David Garrigues on Guruji, pain and injury; Sharath on not being able to go to India I just watched this recent video by David Garrigues, in which he talks about the place of pain and injury in Ashtanga yoga. He starts by tal...