I wrote this as a short film about 10 years ago when I moved to NYC and started dipping my toes in all the different yoga and spiritual communities that were hanging around, and I observed quite a few comedic moments in the process.
I recently had the great pleasure of sitting down with my dear friend Tara Stiles to talk about our New Year's resolutions, our new projects and our positive outlook for the year to come.
In my "May Cause Miracles" interview series I sit down with Tara Stiles and talk, yoga, spirituality and life flow. Learn how Tara finds flow and stretches time through her yoga practice!
Millions of people are waking up, stepping away from harsh teachers, false gurus, and beginning to realizing yoga is not about the pose and the shape you can make with your body.
Tara's style is to do away with the Sanskrit names for yoga poses and all that supposedly scary yoga lingo in favor of her own bare bones, stripped down style.
For much of my young life I had felt the emptiness of existence. But over the years, yoga has slowly served to fill much of that emptiness with meaning. Here are the top ten ways.
Being a child of the 80s, I remember jumping around in the background while my mother inserted her Jane Fonda's Workout tape into the VCR as the Acad...
You may be guided through ways of practicing by a teacher, but you are ultimately your own and most important teacher. The universe is within you, and you are the universe.
We miss moments all the time and if we fully lived them all we might spontaneously combust, or appear intensely hyper and loony. This brings awareness to all the moments that we miss, that we dull out on.
Carving out a yoga practice that brings you to your edge and challenges you physically will burn calories, blast fat and tone everything up without harming your joints, but that's only part of the equation.
I'm not having a nervous break down ... yet. But if I let things continue in a speedy way without observation, falling into a million pieces would be inevitable.
The hard part is listening. No one can do it for you. There isn't a 10 day diet for it. It can start with meditation, a nature walk, being inspired by a poem, or a number of other things.
Meditation (and yoga) isn't a religion. It brings you back to YOU. That feels so amazing and aligns you with your creativity, intuition, and sets you in a state of energized inspiration.
If we can shift our perspective of blowing off steam to get away from ourselves, and our lives to dropping right into them, we can begin to form healthy, sustainable habits.
Modern day spiritual guru Deepak Chopra appeared alongside his personal yoga instructor, Tara Stiles, on on ABC's Good Morning America to discuss spir...
Even in our efforts to become healthy we often get caught moving with anxiety and haste. Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires.
Step 1. Know your archetype. We all have one. I am Artemis, who represents independence, focused, daring, adventurous. Artemis needs to work on healing being cut off from emotions.
Everything starts with awareness. Thankfully, we are made up of awareness, so we can always tap in. When we bring awareness to our habits, our fears are illuminated and we begin to work toward balance.
I notice sometimes I bring this demand to the mat, when I really should be working on the reverse, bringing the discipline I am developing on the mat to the rest of my life.
Law of nature One. Go to bed. Don't think that you can cheat nature or your body for an extended period of time and everything will continue to work as it should. Get yourself to sleep already!