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 ...

Beyond the Edge and Powerful Surrender Workshops

I'll be hosting two workshops in the coming weeks at Yogayama ! I challenge those who can make it to join in. On Sunday, November 20th,...

Yoga and the art of movie-watching

Although this blog is primarily about yoga, I sometimes also write movie and food reviews. Why? Because I do watch movies and eat food (I ha...

Infants, knowledge, and why we may not know our yoga

Yesterday, in my theory of knowledge class, I had a discussion with my students about what knowledge really is (what else can you really tal...

Some neither here-nor-there musings on a downcast, snowy Friday afternoon

It's almost 5 p.m. on Friday afternoon. I'm sitting here in front of my computer, musing over a few things that have occurred to me ...

Does yoga really work, or is Self-realization genetically determined?

The answer to this question is quite complicated. But in order to make sense of what I am talking about, I have to start from the beginning....

Yoga is like taking a Sh*t

Disclaimer: If you are easily offended by bathroom humor, poems about bathroom humor, cross-references between yoga and things that happen ...

Standing on your head is a good antidote for philosophy

At the beginning of my philosophy class this morning, a student came into the lecture hall carrying a yoga mat. ( Full disclosure: To my kn...