Now Open: Hillsborough Spa and Day Retreat

What a joy this is to share: a place to unplug, refill your well, and tune in to your higher self. Hillsborough Spa and Day Retreat is now open at 1814 Beckett’s Ridge Drive, Hillsborough, North Carolina. It’s just above the Hillsborough Yoga Company,...

Wrong-seeing and Two Seconds of Buzzfeed Fame

When I woke up Sunday and glanced at the iPad, I saw that my colleague Sara sent me a link to the Buzzfeed article “27 Things That Are Too Real for People with Terrible Posture,” telling me to check out number 20 on the list. I scrolled down to see a...

Conditional Language, Agency, and Liberation Prison Yoga

If I were to make a word cloud of the language I use while teaching, some of the bigger words would be or, maybe, might, could, can, and try. I’d been thinking this was a weakness—offering students too many choices, suggesting a passivity that stands in contrast...

Scheduled: Everyday Yoga Book Event at Flyleaf Books

Join me at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill to celebrate the release of Everyday Yoga! On Wednesday, June 10, 7–8 p.m., I’ll give a brief talk about getting started doing yoga at home; offer time for Q&A; and lead a fun, accessible, all-levels,...

Update: Track Your Habits

Just over a year ago, I wrote a post for my Active Yogi blog at Yoga Journal about awareness of our habits—what in yoga we call samskara. It begins: For the last few days, a robin has been attacking its reflection in the window to my home office. Over and over again,...