Of every inspiration: I don’t mind waiting for words, not any longer, although at one point it was a source of anxiety for me, facing an empty page without a ready theme, the fear of sitting before the keyboards without a sure sense of inspiration — wanting so badly to…

For listening: mornings are for listening, soft sounds arriving easily to the ears, a long pause of silence that feels so holy in its embrace that I am instantly lost within its hold. This is the morning of pre-dawn, hours until first light, sacred time. …

Our true posture: of asana, our true posture -that it’s found here, and only through the body. That’s the real work of yoga, grounding us to the present moment experience, being rooted to spirit exactly where and as we are right now. It’s not about transformation, we never become something…

Of any great consequence: what I want to do is relax and approach the page without concern for words, allowing inspiration to find me on its own. I am not a writer of any great consequence, this isn’t said with with any sense of self-humility, I’m not being humble, my…

Place to start: it started as wanting to help people physically, to be more fit, stronger and more flexible, lose some weight if that was an issue, my own passion for fitness became my means of living. I enjoyed it for many years and helped everyone from competitive athletes to…

Our seat: asana is the third limb of yoga, in Sanskrit it simply means taking our seat, and the Yoga Sutra’s describe this as establishing a steady and comfortable position for meditation. The practice of asanas, Hatha yoga, is typically the yoga we’re most familiar with, it’s what we think…

Easy flow of words: usually it’s just after meditation, the sun still hours away from morning, everything settled, quiet, and a faint idea will then whisper through my mind, subtle, barely even noticed — but I know what I will write of now, a themes been given to me, inspiration…

All I see is Brahman: all I see is Brahman, reality, and it’s taking place all around me, more so, it’s my very own existence, exactly and only what I truly am right now. I use this term because I love it, beautifully described as the cosmic principle, it’s that…

Real power: it’s the last niyama, Isvara Pranidhana, and it urges our surrender, asking us to recognize that we belong fully to something larger than ourselves alone, allowing the deep intimacy of reality to take over the true function of our lives. That’s a lot to ask for, placing our…