Lose Your Ego. Really.

It's probably good advice to leave egos behind in most situations. In yoga, it can mean the difference between a solid practice, and a painful practice. (Figuratively, and literally.) Further, egos are really the antithesis of one of the...

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I’m going to die.

For the first few weeks of my yoga journey, I would sometimes feel like my demise was near. As noted in a prior post, I hadn't yet embraced the words that the yoga gurus (my definition of the fine...

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The Perfect Mat

The title on this one is a bit imperfect. Really, I should append "for me" to the end. As with anything yoga, the perfect anything is really what is perfect for you. But, what I can do is express...

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The Journey Begins (A Retrospective)

I must admit that when I first signed up for my first yoga class, I had a belief that yoga was easy. This wasn't a thought that was meant to demean the activity, it was an uninformed view that...

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2017 – The Year in Reflection

2017…wow, what a year. It’s always interesting to ponder what a year might bring. At the onset of each year, the outlook often depends the prior year. A great year? The hope is that the next year is as...

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Southern California–and Automobiles

For the formative years of my life, I grew up in the Midwest. Specifically, in/around a town called "Little York." You've never heard of it? I find that hard to believe, what with the population (at the time) of...

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