(FYI: this post is the second part of a 3-post series on political anatomy. Check out Part 1 here.) I’m gonna start off on a tangent, with a statement bound to make a whole bunch of yoga devotees cringe like crazy: It’s A-OK to be judgmental at times. Now I’m not talking about petty and …
Where y’all standing?
Part 1: Defining your politics Thus far I’ve been making noise about yoga’s huge silence on politics (see my first three posts: 1, 2, 3). No word so far about what to do beyond connecting yoga with politics—or how we even know what, exactly, our politics is (yes, politics is considered grammatically singular). Time for …
Question of the Day
What’s stopping the rest of us from sitting down and saying, “No freakin’ way are we playing by your crummy rules!”? Sometimes there are only questions. And the one above is inspired by the harsh reality that most of us are subjected to the demands and rules of a few who want more for themselves …
It’s time to go balls-out.
In yoga, we often express gratitude for what others have given us. It’s easy enough to recall how friends, family, colleagues, teachers, and students lend us a hand every now and then. For we know and have daily contact with these people. What about those we don’t know? What about the people who came before …
Checkin’ in.
The topic of fear keeps arising for me, so I can’t ignore it. The subject intersects with what I talked about last week: taking risks and letting go of comfort zones. Letting go of comfort zones is what bold thinkers, artists, and activists do. Each of us is a thinker, artist, and activist. It’s to …
