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Confessions of an Acupuncture school dropout
By Lee Davis I was meant to be a healer. It was obvious. Why would life have given me a chronic illness if not to learn from it? And what else could I learn from it but how to heal? I could see it all...
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The Yoga Sutras won’t fix you
By Kirk Hensler I get it; I see why you’re shying away. The posts that used to make you roll over with fits of laughter are now making you feel judgmental and irritated. It’s that time of year when...
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Socks on his hands
By Rebecca Butler I have a stalker. Ok, he’s not really a stalker. He’s more like a disgruntled student gone mad. One recent day, “Donald” showed up to class and announced that he was no longer smoking...
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The various and hypocritical definitions of the word “hippie”
By Joslyn Hamilton Recently, I made a derogatory comment about hippies to my mom—a hippie—and she, not surprisingly, questioned if I even understand what a hippie is. It made me pause and realize that...
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5 Creepy New Age characters to be wary of
By Caroline van Kimmenade The road to self-knowledge is full of charlatans. Below are five creepy characters that I have encountered on my own journey who have proven to be particularly disturbing. The...
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I know nothing
By Louis Cortese Imagine yourself at the proverbial cocktail party attended by a variety of people from all walks of life. Notice how, in any topic of conversation—politics, religion, sports, movies,...
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The evolved man
By Kirk Hensler It is my belief that the heart of a man burns with a steady fire, stoked to rage, that keeps his family safe and his enemies at a distance. At best, it is quietly simmering underneath...
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Seriously, WTF?
By Kris Nelson I was writing my to-do list this morning. I always start with the day and date just like this: Tuesday, February 25, 2013. And it hit me. Hard. Seriously, what the fuck? It’s 2013. It...
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A note about my bio
By Kate Stone For as much as we live in the present, there was always a life before. I had a life before. Before lecturing privileged adults on the glories of Virbhadrasana II, I did time in Chicago,...
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Don’t “should” me
by By Joslyn Hamilton Because I worked in the yoga world for so long as a yoga teacher, assistant and manager of various yoga studios and businesses, pretty much any time I run into an acquaintance I...
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India: the answer to every yoga teacher’s financial problems
by By Laci Chiodo To all of the struggling yoga teachers out there looking for a little respect, I have one word for you: India. Are you approaching thirty and still making $20 a class? Do local...
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Don’t hate me. I hate me already.
by By Maria Varonis Listen: is it the worst that I love seitan and cook with whole pods of cardamom on most weeknights? Fuck yes it is. The other day I was leaving yoga class and I went to the health...
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Bad feminist
by By Dani Burlison Dani Burlison is fantastic writer who recently released a book of essays, Dendrophilia & Other Social Taboos: True Stories. You can get a hold of a copy here and check out Dani...
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No feet
by By Kate Stone Heard in: Various Yoga Studios, Boston Filed under: “Misappropriated Yoga Tenets” It doesn’t always make sense to align our modern lives to each of the Yamas and Niyamas of Patanjali’s...
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Forget regret (is a silly philosophy)
by By Trish Tillman I’ve noticed a rather concerning recent trend in the literature of pop-spirituality. Writers will speak of some questionable, possibly damaging decision they made in the past, and...
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Severe depression, suicide, yoga and Robin Williams
by By Tiffany Rose My heart skipped a beat as I held my breath when I read that he was dead. His face, so deeply lined with character, laughter and grief, and his manic hilarity a telltale sign of...
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The most arrogant T-shirt in the world
by By Trish Tillman I’ve seen my fair share of annoyingly self-important sayings from the world of New-Agey pop-spirituality—most likely, you have as well. We could even compare notes. But the other...
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Yoga lit: a mat-side guide to the genre
by (Or, how to write your own yoga memoir or novel in six easy steps) In February, 2006, Viking published Elizabeth Gilbert’s international best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over ten...
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Yoga might actually be the problem
by By Nadine Fawell I love yoga. I’ll confess that upfront. But I generally stay well away from yoga marketing because it makes my crazy come back. Since I do yoga in large part to MANAGE my mental...
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Enlightenment: indulging the pathology of perfectionism
by By Cherryl Duncan Leo Burnett, a famous American advertising executive, said, “When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.” Quoting...
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