I saw a play long ago about Georgia O'Keeffe. There is one scene that will stay with me forever. In the scene, she agonizes before her empty canvas. She is disheveled, tormented, ready to paint and, yet, not ready to paint. She holds a brush. The paint is there, ready, [...]
What would be the purpose of yoga if we did not seek to apply what we experience in our yoga practice or meditation into other areas of our lives, when we are living off the mat? This question intrigues me because I continually explore how to embrace the yoga lifestyle [...]
I own a book, by Ramana Maharshi, on meditation that is 505 pages long. I bought the book in a secondhand bookshop 15 years ago, hoping one day I would read it and discover the mysterious secrets behind meditation. Have I read it? No, I haven't. Let me say I've [...]
Dharma Mittra is one very cool yoga master and I consider myself very lucky to be studying with him right here at the San Francisco yoga conference! He started out today's session by asking, "How many of you are here to study for the first time with Swami Pretendananda?" It [...]
I recently taught a Balance Workshop at Yogalife. At the end of the workshop, I couldn't believe that I only covered about 1/8 of my notes! So very ambitious am I! The workshop went so well that I will most definitely offer another workshop on the same topic sometime in [...]
