John Friend, Genpo Roshi, Katagiri Roshi, Swami Muktananda, Adi Da. These are all teachers that I or my teachers have studied with, and who have been involved in scandals involving sex, money, and power. These teachers have all wielded tremendous influence in spirituality in the West. Through their transgressions they have left many of their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘yoga’
When our teachers fall
Posted in Personal Growth, Spirituality, tagged awareness, Buddhism, Genpo Roshi, life energy, money, spiritual masters, spirituality, subtle body, yoga on March 28, 2012 | 3 Comments »
You, practicing not checking your smartphone.
Posted in Culture, Personal Growth, Spirituality, tagged awareness, Buddhism, practice, smartphone, spirituality, technology, yoga on October 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Most people don’t even notice it. There is the familiar buzz in the pocket, or the soft, quirky tone that emanates from an indeterminate space in the room. Before their conscious mind recognizes what it is, the amygdala responds, igniting whatever emotions it is they associate with incoming data: anxiety, hope, fatigue. Unconsciously, the Pavlovian [...]
Confessions of a Type-A Yogi
Posted in Culture, Spirituality, tagged Anusara Yoga, femoroacetabular impingement, health, practice, spirituality, subtle body, yoga on February 28, 2011 | 95 Comments »
In my early yoga days studying Anusara Yoga with John Friend, he once told me (through my girlfriend) that I could be a great yogi like my friend Darren Rhodes. To me, this meant that I too would be able to contort my body into incredible formations, and demonstrate my world-class athletic prowess through the [...]
Expand your eco-footprint
Posted in Culture, Sustainability, tagged consumption, green, integral sustainability, life energy, money, nature, yoga on January 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »
There it lay on the table: the Williams-Sonoma holiday catalog. Emotions ran through me, disgust that I’d made it on their mailing list, lust for the images of sticky buns and crumpets that lay inside. Most of all, I felt exhausted. Exhausted because I knew that soon I’d be searching the store’s web site looking [...]
Spirituality and Sustainability, Part II
Posted in Spirituality, Sustainability, tagged enlightenment, Genpo Roshi, global warming, integral sustainability, nondualism, spirituality, sustainability, yoga on October 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
How and why do you work for a better world when you know, when you have lived, if even for a moment, that everything is perfect exactly as it is? That the trash-strewn, baking-hot, barren parking lot of a Circle K is, in its essence, just as radiant as Yosemite or the Grand Canyon?
