Being human
and life's little mysteries

sat-sangatve nissangatvam, nissangatve nirmohatvam, nirmohatve nishcala-tattvam, nishcala-tattve jivanmuktih, bhaja govindam, bhaja...

What happens on the mat should be reflected in our vision of the world and our actions in it. When we think of inversions, those classic...

Over the weekend I spent some time with a cousin who is 25 and in a transition process from being a student to being an employee…the...

Four years ago today I got a call that saved my physical body. I can rely only on my fading memory to travel back to that time when...

Life all around us can sometimes feel like a chaotic blur. Things to do, people to meet, places to go…these out of body tasks mount up...

Let’s face it. The transition from August to September can be dramatic for some of us – full of events that remind us of that the end of...

Focus Of The Month – June, 2017 Yama-niyama-āsana-prāṇāyāma-pratyāhāra-dhāraṇā-dhyāna-samādhayo‘ṣṭāvaṅgāni. Restraint, Observance, Seat,...

Jivamukti Focus of the Month, May 2017 by April Dechagas yad-yad ācarati śreṣṭhas / tad-tadevetaro janaḥ / sa yat pramāṇaḿ kurute /...

Focus Of The Month – April, 2017 nimittam aprayojakaṁ prakṛtīnāṁ varaṇa-bhedas tu tataḥ kṣetrikavat Causes do not put nature, Prakrti,...

I spent last weekend looking (mainly up) at trees. They are beautiful to behold at this time of year, with their sometimes spindly,...

There has never been a time when the earth has been more inhabited. People, plastic bottles, car parts, computers and chemical byproducts...

Focus Of The Month – March, 2017 hānan eṣāṁ kleśavad uktam The greatest obstacle to the practice of yoga is one’s own prejudices based...

Navigating through the city-scapes of today, however, can be like an assault to our inner world. Being in the unnatural world of...

Over the past week, Donald Trump’s first week as US president, I have been feeling my psoas muscle firing up at the most unusual times....

Life provides us with the opportunity to be fluid and mobile, or rigid and fixed. This is as true in the body as it is in our mind. Hips...

Jivamukti Focus of the Month, January 2017 by David Life You know the story of the student who says to the teacher, “I studied eight...

Sting, the world-renowned rock star who gives hundreds of concerts a year, once said to me, “I put on a better show when someone I know...

Often times society assumes that to have survived something means that you have come out the other end stronger, more...

Over the past months I have heard many different angles of a story that involves history, politics, cultures and finances, reasons that...

What Is a Person? (The World in Which the Kestrel Moves) sarva-bhūtastham ātmānam / sarva-bhūtāni ca-āatmani iksate yogayukta-ātmā /...