Overcoming overindulgence
From PE failures & comfort eating to yoga studio parking lots, battling self-doubt. One teacher asking me to light candles changed everything—simple recognition weaving the tapes
Hot yoga history
Plot twist: Hot yoga comes from bodybuilding swagger, Shirley MacLane's studio, & a broken AC myth. Bikram claimed fake championships while his wife Rajashree won the real ones. Tr
Indra’s legacy
Meet Indra Devi: the cheetah-print-wearing, high-heel-rocking dame who brought yoga to Hollywood's elite in the 1940s. From Russian revolution refugee to First Lady of Yoga on Suns
Just bee
Don't just do something… Sit There!' Modern laziness is compulsive busyness avoiding real issues. What we resist persists—even behind mental refrigerators. We're not human 'doi
Show your colors
Indian grandmas rock saris with bare midriffs unapologetically while we obsess over fashion police. After 9/11, USA Grill hid their true colors from fear. Your yoga teacher was rig
Our true names
Thich Nhat Hanh's poem pierced my spiritual balloon: feeling interconnected with baby birds is easy, but with pirates? Decades later, this yoga teacher learns true names aren't abo
Demolition
Demolition feels like making wedding cakes—chaos equals creativity. Ripping walls apart to birth a yoga studio, goggles & all. Raw hands, bruised body, but ecstatic hope! Mom's h
The view
From windowless studios to sushi bar terrariums, every yoga space taught me what I didn't want. Now: towering trees as my majestic backdrop. Yoga helps notice tight minds, not just
Salt mines
When 500 lbs of broken Himalayan salt blocks become life lessons! Sometimes the universe delivers obstacles to teach us resilience. Like yoga practice, we transform irritation into
Small beginnings
From pastry chef to yoga teacher—small beginnings bloom into something beautiful. Opening a studio feels like that first wobbly warrior pose: uncertain but full of promise. One g
