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Men and yoga can be a bit like oil and water, at least in the United States.  While a strong men’s yoga community certainly exists in America, in the popular mind, yoga is a feminine activity grouped together with dance classes, girl’s weekends, and the popular “chick flick.”  I teach fitness and yoga classes in [...]

“entropy (noun), as in life is a struggle against entropy: deterioration, degeneration, crumbling, decline, degradation, decomposition, breaking down, collapse; disorder, chaos.” This year has been entropic, to say the least.  For many, 2012 has been full of dissolution…divorces, deaths, de-cluttering, physical injuries and paralyzing outcomes, unprecedented destructive weather, and unexpected deterioration with countries and even [...]

Review: _Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi: My Humble Quest to Heal my Colitis, Calm my ADD, and Find the Key to Happiness_ by Brian Leaf (Novato, California: New World Library, 2012). 265 pages. Trade Paperback. Price: $14.95 By Colin Carman The seventh and most compelling key to happiness outlined in Brian Leaf’s new book [...]

I’ve had my heart broken around 4 times, give or take an artery –  as many instances as my iPhone has been shattered.  I’m pretty sure these tragic life events are indisputably connected, considering the annoying fragility of both hearts and iPhones, and the difficulty to mend either one without great patience, personal expense and [...]

In the second chapter of the Yoga Sutras, the Sadhana Pada, Patanjali outlines “the means to liberation.” Within these key principles we find the five kleshas, or obstacles: ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and clinging to life. Sutra 2.2 introduces the subject very clearly: “The goal of Yoga is not to obtain something that is lacking: [...]

  Since I was about 20 years old I’ve dealt with episodes of depression and anxiety that propelled me into talk therapy and was paired with the ever-present Band-Aid called antidepressants, but nothing has kept me more grounded and focused than the saving grace I found in yoga and meditation. I cannot claim to have [...]

Last Wednesday I collapsed onto a bench in the lobby of a downtown D.C. office building and cried with my 15-month old child strapped to my back. How on earth did I get here? Technically, by bus. I had travelled by bus with a baby strapped to my back for 40 minutes without a seat [...]

  A teacher of mine once said, after times of intense practice, like a teacher training program or going on retreat, resistance can follow. After hearing that I couldn’t help but think, “Man, that’s an understatement.” I recently completed Kelly Morris’s Conquering Lion Yoga Teacher Training. Before the training started, I thought maybe after my second [...]

  I love naps.  I’m a big fan of sleep.  I am highly entertained by the chaotic narrative of my very vivid dream life. My mind seems more interesting while snoozing than when awake. I wish I could sleep all day long.  It offers healing and the ability to process the events of the day. However, [...]