There will be no photos in this post, be happy for small favors.

Many ashtangis the world over have caught a toe on a jumpthrough at least once. In fact, in the David Garrigues workshop I did last year he was teaching a version of the straight leg jumpthrough and I remember him saying wryly, [...]

After my last shameful post on yoga motivation, I ran across this great piece on a Japanese-learner blog I like, All Japanese All the Time, where a reader had been asking blogger Khatz about what to do when she didn’t feel like she was making progress in learning her target language.  Echos of [...]

Doing yoga today I found myself thinking about why I practice.  A sort of “what’s in it for me” reckoning.  As in, “why don’t I just go lie down, anyway?”  As I pondered this, I couldn’t help but notice how lame all my most motivating reasons for doing yoga really are.  Like, I totally should [...]