Adam & Theresa I've been lucky enough to be acquainted with the passion and the brains behind the vegan/vegetarian cooking bl...
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, ...
What Hurts the Soul?
Mysore, India We tremble, thinking we're about to dissolve into nonexistence, but nonexistence fears even more that it migh...
Food: A Word
In Mysore "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf I've h...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
5 Simple Stretches to ease Shoulder Pain
A while ago I did a post with some simple stretches to ease back pain . Recently I got a comment on that post asking for something similar ...
The miracle fibre (plus blanks)
Well, in my recent weeks since moving to England I am discovering what the Brits, Scots and Welsh have known for centuries: Wool. Now, we do...
Yoga, culinary misadventure and coffee in the Twin Cities
It appears that I have been bit hard by the travel bug. A couple of weeks ago, I was in the Twin Cities (these are the cities of Minneapolis...
First acupuncture session; Yoga in the Dragon's Den turns one!
Had my first-ever acupuncture session today. A couple of people have suggested acupuncture as a treatment modality for my knee (see previous...
More on backbends; a couple of ideas on making a lot of money in the yoga world
Practice this morning was good. I decided to work more on backbends. In many ways, this wasn't a very deliberate decision on my part. Ev...
More ruminations on tight asses, and Eddie Stern's take on the whole thing (the article, not the asses)
A couple of days ago, Eddie Stern published what I thought was a very well-written response to the now-infamous NYT article by Deb Schoenem...
Confessions of a somewhat happy egoist
[Image taken from here ] I just read David Garrigues' latest post about the asana practice and moving from the center. As always, Davi...
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