Rather The Tortoise
A year and a half ago I visited the Thiksey Monastery in the Himalayas as part of Nikki Costello’s led retreat. Each day our group had...
Happy New Year Hanuman
For the past couple of years I’ve gone, with hundreds of others, to the Tibet House on January 1 to chant the Hanuman Chalisa under the...
Trump Won't Keep Me Off Balance
As I write this, Donald Trump has just named David Friedman, a Long Island born bankruptcy lawyer with no diplomatic experience to the...
What's A Yogi To Do
Over a decade ago I co-owned a yoga studio in Dumbo where a novice teacher named David Regelin taught classes. One day, the athletically...
Anatomy and Yoga and a Little Spirit
Ellen Saltonstall smiles as the elevator opens into the sun-filled loft she shares with husband the noted decorative artist Robert...
We Are Farmers Of Our Fields
For Rachel We are all farmers of our own fields. We till the soil, break apart endless clumps of dirt and remove stones, like samskaras,...
Take Off The Blinders
In the late 80’s, there was a one-hit-wonder band called Timbuk 3, who gave us the song The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades. “I’m...
Hate Speech or Honest Debate
The other day the Daily News published the work of a freelancer who also writes for YogaCity NYC. It was an opinion piece on how noise...
What A Monk Can Teach Us About Romantic Love
Early this year, teacher Prem Sadasivananda wrote his first book Open Your Heart To Love. YogaCity NYC’s Publisher Brette Popper wondered...
Vote Your Yoga Practice
The other day a “friend” on Facebook wrote that she was not going to vote in the upcoming Presidential election because the choices were...
