One of the many things yoga is about is remembering our innate wholeness, even or especially, amid what we perceive as our brokenness. In recognizing our wholeness, we tap into compassion for self; we tap into higher Self. Then we Read more…
What is masculinity? How do you define it? For yourself, let alone for us as a culture. It’s a topic increasingly receiving examination. From me and others. In my Humanitou conversations — an ongoing social art project of humanness and creativity Read more…
How we practice is what we practice. ~ Jessica Patterson I teach my sons that how and why we do things are at least as important as what we do. I teach them that life is built on habits, so Read more…
So often we go through our daily routines on autopilot. Status quo. Just another day. We’ve been trained, collectively, not to ask why and just to follow the leader. In school, religion, work. Of parents, teachers, law and government. Of Read more…
Random capitalization used to bother me (and might still). So, when I write Self with a capital “S” in yoga posts on this site or social media, I think of the fellow writers and word-lovers who might snag on that Read more…
Anxiety. It’s created by trying to live forward into the future and resolve the not-yet known, the not-yet experienced. And why? To make it less scary? To make life a safe, super-safe adventure? If I worry over my future opportunities Read more…
I teach yoga at Root Center for Yoga and Sacred Studies in Colorado Springs. It’s where I apprenticed for nearly a year, a deep immersion in something I’ve always felt but intellectually have been ignorant of: what yoga is. Less than two Read more…
With Veterans Day approaching, and my being a U.S. Army veteran, I’ve been contemplating the concept of service. It will be the theme that guides the Rooted in Seva yoga class I will teach on Veterans Day. Seva in Sanskrit, Read more…