Our minds are occupied with so many useless thoughts that cause tension. When we try to relax we aren't even aware of how to go about releasing the tension that we are gripping, because we don't fully understand why it is there. It happens to all of us. Stress and...

A cool girl that comes to the yoga studio had been buried in a gigantic book for a few weeks right up until class time. It was one of those books that you knew had to suck you in because it's a commitment just to lug the thing around. I...

I hitched a ride back to my hotel tonight from the car rental place and learned a few very important lessons from the driver. He asked if I was in town for work or fun, and happily I got to reply "both." My work is fun. I told him a...

I'm sprawled in a Nashville hotel room contemplating the physical and psychological relationship between hip and mental tension. By hip I mean the upper thigh, booty, pelvis, region of the body. Not as in "hip to be square," although it should be hip to have tension-free hips. Ah ha, get...

"All the great scientists say that whenever they discovered something, they discovered it not by thinking but when the thinking had stopped and there was an interval, a gap. Into that gap came the insight - the intuitive flash, like lightning." - Osho

In yoga, or any path of living...

Changing of the seasons is fun when it comes to getting to wear forgotten favorite fall clothes and enjoying homemade treats. Snuggling up in my mom's awesome sweaters from the 70s and enjoying fresh apple pie from the farmers market (reheated in my oven so I can pretend I made...

I high-fived my computer screen reading Bill Maher's article New Rule: You Can't Complain About Health Care Reform If You're Not Willing to Reform Your Own Health. Mr. Maher says,

"Unlike most liberals, I'm glad all those teabaggers marched on Washington last week. Because judging from the photos,...

How long would you last resisting the marshmallow? That is the question asked in the "kid torture" video, a recreation of the study done in the 1960s at Stanford analyzing behavior, willpower, and success. Kids were sat down in a room, presented with a marshmallow, and told they could eat...

How many topics can a blogger write about yoga? When it comes to the physical benefits of the practice there seems to be only one category that sums it up. Looking better naked. Somehow that became the goal. Now, who are we aiming to look better than? Are we striving...

I was talking with a friend about what we were going to have for dinner, and out of nowhere a "deep" conversation about happiness showed up at the table. Someone brought up pizza, which of course led straight to the subject of happiness. More philosophical hunger-induced contemplations piled on from...

We all want the secrets to health and vitality. We can buy bottles, creams, and whatever else is advertised to us, but ultimately anything sustainable comes from self-awareness and choices.

I recently read the New York Times piece, The Economics of Doing What You Love, by Justin...

Dear Rachel Maddow,

Thank you for bringing us the news in a fun and entertaining way. Your smarts and sensibilities have lured me and many others into keeping up with policy, even when it's not election season! You've also inspired me to customize a few emergency health interventions...

Yoga Bear is throwing a Karma party Wednesday night and everyone is invited! Halle Tecco, founder of Yoga Bear, a national non-profit dedicated to providing cancer survivors with more opportunities for wellness and healing though the practice of yoga, saw an opportunity while practicing in an almost but...

The moment we believe the answers are no longer inside ourselves, waiting without trickery to be uncovered by reflection, meditation, and practice, we are separated from the truth. We become ungrounded by fear and start to look outside and grasp for answers away from our reach.

Self-doubt is a...

My usual morning routine, following basic one-hour meditation (wink), usually runs something like this: Gmail, HuffPo, Fox.com (jk lol), Twitter. And then Thursday August 6, 2009 rolls around. A date that shall live in infamy. Suspecting nothing, I typed in Twitter.com. No response. I checked again. Still no response....

We've all heard advice and inspiring phrases thrown around like "stay true to yourself," "be the change you want to see," and of course the more street-cred version, "keep it real." It can be tricky to figure out what these catch phrases actually look like when put in practice. What...

Keeping our good health habits can be hard enough to fit into our regular hectic schedules. When we throw travel in the mix, staying on the health track can feel like riding a mechanical bull. The unexpected bumps, twists, jolts, and excitement may be fun, but can take our health...

The instant we (the social networking collective) began to tire of clicking through hundreds of pictures of old high school friends while looking to find a slice of nostalgia or vindication within our beloved Facebook, we were given a shiny new toy. The 140-character got-to-have-it satisfying solution emerged:

"What's for dinner?" A lot of us ask that question right before popping our head in the fridge to see what the options are. If nothing edible is found in the house, three options with rather high probability of being significantly less healthy than the home-cooked-meal come to the table....

A long weekend, parties, crazy hats, fireworks, and fun are all going to be enjoyed this July 4th weekend. America has come a long way and been through a ton since she declared her independence in 1776 (by the way I love that our nation is a she), but how...