7 Ways to Keep Up With Your Yoga Practice This Summer

7 Ways to Keep Up With Your Yoga Practice This Summer

When summer arrives, it can be hard to keep up with your yoga practice. With longer days and better weather, we spend more time outdoors, traveling, and hanging out with family and friends. And if you have children, their summer schedules may keep you busy shuttling...
6 Alternatives to Downward-Facing Dog

6 Alternatives to Downward-Facing Dog

Downward-facing dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana) is one of those yoga poses that you either love or hate. But it’s also hard to avoid this pose, especially if you are in a group yoga class. But just because you struggle with downward-facing dog or find it hard on your back,...
Moving Into Meditation — By Not Moving

Moving Into Meditation — By Not Moving

Meditation has never been fun. In his first sermon at the Deer Park, I doubt the Buddha said to his disciples, “You should stop by BuddhaWorks on Friday night. We’ll be sitting around until our butts go numb and we come face-to-face with our annoying monkey minds. And...
Yoga Teachers: Shut Up and Let Yoga Happen

Yoga Teachers: Shut Up and Let Yoga Happen

I’m always amazed by how much yoga teachers talk during their yoga classes. Sometimes it feels like I’m attending a lecture on life, the universe, and everything. Not a class where the goal is to quiet down the mind (or the “mind-stuff” as it’s called in the Yoga...