Mindfulness

Handling Jealousy

I got an interesting question from someone this week:

How you handle jealousy?
There is this one person that makes me jealous. She seems to have amazing luck and everything lines up for her so easily. I work just as hard as she does, and I know for a fact that she is no…

Design and the Self

Everywhere we go, we are surrounded by bad design — from airplane seats that distort our posture to aesthetically inelegant cars. Landscapes that were once green and blue are now paved over. Our surroundings are full of missed opportunities to introduce delight and joy into people’s lives.

Mindfulness Practices For Design

How yoga and meditation can make people better designers

Redefining “Advanced yoga”

“I’d like to get into yoga, but I just wish I were better at it.” In yoga there is no “good” or “bad”, no…

The Nectar of Chanting

We just returned from a family trip to the ashram in upstate NY. Our visit was profound, powerful, and uplifting, in ways that are too deep, personal, and difficult to explain with words. As is typically the case when taking the kids to a new, unfamiliar place, they were uncomfortable at…

“I’m not good at yoga.”

The irony of this comment fascinates me. How come one rarely says, “I don’t go to strength training classes, because I’m not strong,” yet people say they don’t do yoga because they’re not flexible? 

Perhaps what lies behind that statement is the perception that yoga is about pretzel…