For years, I refused to build an Instagram account for Comfort Zone Yoga®. Not because I doubted the value of it. I could see exactly how it would go: I’d post the same thing on both accounts with a slightly different caption, feel behind on both, and eventually...
I have opened 99 episodes of my podcast, Yoga Teacher Confidential, with the same five words: “Can I tell you something?” I never sat down and decided that would be the opening line for two years running. It was a habit I picked up on the very first...
Joy and comparison can’t share the same breath—so how do you choose joy? I don’t run much anymore, so most mornings you’ll find me walking—usually with my husband, often before the day has decided what it wants to be. We have a little game. When another walker comes...
Most conversations about yoga philosophy begin politely, with a Sanskrit term and a respectful nod to the Yoga Sutras. When I sat down with my dear friend and longtime writing partner, Alexandra DeSiato, to talk about our new book, she opened with death. That is very...
The first time I felt true rest, I wasn’t trying to. I was deep in Ironman training, carrying the kind of fatigue that made me look forward to dentist appointments—because they meant I got to lie down for forty-five minutes. I signed up for a restorative workshop...
