A few months ago, I was teaching a one-on-one class online today to a student newish to yoga. On this day, when I asked her how things were going, she replied “I’m just walking towards the darkness at the end of the tunnel.” This student began taking yoga classes in January of 2020, in her mid forties, as a New Years Resolution. She told herself she would take four classes and then be able to check it off her "list of suggested stress lowering activities." She purchased an ex

The nature of shadow and light, duality and oneness. There’s a story about Ganesh and how the moon got its big crater. As the story goes, Ganesh was walking home from a big party where he had over ate, he fell down and everything around him went awry. The big full moon that Ganesh had previously been admiring for its perfect beauty and light, starting laughing at Ganesh. Ganesh angered and started yelling at the moon but the moon kept laughing. Ganesh got so angry that he tor