Foot Chakras

Connect Your Energy to the Earth

In honor of Earth Day our yoga instructor Maureen led a class that emphasized our connection to the earth. We began in Toe Squat Pose. Toe Squat is a yin pose, and like most yin poses, it looks easy but is not. Stand on your…

Yoga Body

What I See after 100,000 Minutes Looking in the Mirror

There is something unseemly about a middle aged man in a Speedo standing in front of a mirror. The lines etched under the eyes, the hair that migrated off the head sprouting out the ears and…

Hong Kong Heights

Perspectives from the World’s Most Vertical City

Hong Kong Heights

Everything in Hong Kong is tall and narrow, except, of course, the people. Hong Kong calls itself the vertical city; more people live above the…

Krishnamacharya

Lynchpin Between Ancient and Modern Yoga

Newton took the apple out of the Garden of Eden and used it to demonstrate gravity. Franklin sucked lightening out of the sky and channeled it to the earth. Then Edison captured it in a bulb.

Restorative Yin Yoga

Doing so Litte Feels so Great

Yin yoga is like making a feast out of nothing. The poses are easy, barely poses at all. We hold them a long time; so long I forget I’m in a pose. When the tinkling bell goes off to change, my psyche is far removed…

8 Movie Scenes that Shaped My Life

From Mary Poppins to Keep the LIghts On

Mary Poppins — 1964

Jane and Michael Banks leave their house with Bert and Mary. Michael slithers around the column in the front of their house. That…

Giddy Yoga

Too Much Yoga Can a Make a Guy Crack Up

I completed my RYT200 yoga Teacher Training yesterday. I’m a yoga teacher. The class is organized as 200 hours of work over eight weeks but I channeled my inner geek and logged a lot more than that. In addition to 96…

Fly China

Chinese Culture Translates to the Air

On a short trip to China — I was gone just a week — the proportion of time on a plane is great, but it is as revealing a place to find cultural differences as anywhere. There are no boarding announcements for our flight…

Chelsea Handler and the Nonagenarian Nun

A Day Bouncing Between Generations