Despite completing over 1000 hours of certificate trainings, I have many issues with the spiritual industrial complex, Yoga Alliance, and how capitalism’s infiltration in an ancient tradition has completely ruined…
Every time I hear it in line at any local barista I silently cringe inside. It’s the same reaction I get in regards to so many other misappropriations of yoga,…
As a wanderer... Our names have been changed so many times we begin to cling to our original crumbling identity even more, our ears now buzzing with mantras lost in…
Five years ago today, January 24th, having cleared my debts (student loans & credit cards), quit my job (running a community multimedia center), and packed up my material belongings (to…
I sit in my crowded room, mostly taken up by the double bed, which actually doubles, shall I say triples as a sleep-sadhana-work/study space. And as I watch myself… jump…
“Who checks your diary?”
Shradha asked me once as I tried to hide what it was I was writing, out of habit, as if she could actually read and understand…
For now India is my mirror,
reflecting upon me the western culture, I left behind
which shaped all the ways of being, I feel
myself shedding each and every moment
reflecting upon the extremes
between…
My cousin was writing a book.
Now is the time to make peace with your past, so you don’t mess up the present!
“Aging Is A Full Time Job” by Marcia Casar…
[first written as part of my application to volunteer at Ashram Paryavaran Vidyalaya]
What is your conception of a quality school and educational program?
The model you have set forth for your…
Once shadowed by skyscrapers,
my sun now filtered with smog.
The roar of the ocean makes it difficult to recall
feelings I‘ve had negotiating Times Square traffic
on a bike.
The man in the elevator…