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Toward a Yoga Presence:
What is often called “presence” in yoga is not a fleeting mental state. It is a disciplined relational stance. Presence can be practiced whether we are in a room with others or alone in our homes. The relational state of presence cannot be taught, it cannot be rushed, it cannot be summoned by instruction; but…
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Why Liturgist of the Land
A Single Work Completed Does anyone experience a single work completed? A work done so perfectly that nothing more needs to be added or taken away. In my recent lyric essay “Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed,” the entire meditation turns on four actions. They form the simplest structure of labor I have…
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Slow Burn of a Yogi’s Becoming Milestones to 800 Hot Yoga Classes
Photos below of the teachers and leaders for 100-800. In yoga tradition, the therapeutic of mind, body, and spirit forges the slow burn of a yogi’s becoming: connections move the yogi to relinquishment where they learn to get out of the head, and move from their center moment by heated moment. In this slow release…
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Why “Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed” Matters
Dig.Dump.Bury.Cover. Sometimes a piece of writing begins with an image that won’t leave . . . with fish remains buried in a deep hole. In “Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed,” It was simple and exact: a gravedigger finishing the work in a deliberate sequence: Dig. Dump. Bury. Cover. Nothing added for appearance,…
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“Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed”
Originally published in Flash the Court, March 2026 Read the full essay at Flash the Court Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed Look around. People are constantly checking their cell phones. Something must be left undone. A complete fucking incompleteness, a permanent, angst-driven scratch. Sisyphus whined, “In this rhythm, I am caught.”…
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At the Edge of Pain Yoga, Breath, and the Art of the Turn
After years of back injury and persistent pain, I found myself practicing yoga at the edge of pain. Through spinal movement, breath, and restraint, I began learning how to remain and find a way to do more than endure. Over time, it reshaped physical capacity and the way stress is met in everyday life. Originally…
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The Body Remembers
In “The Body That Remembers,” a father confronts pain, lineage, and limits as yoga becomes a discipline of return. What begins as an attempt to fix a failing back opens into a reckoning with inheritance carried in fascia, breath, and memory. Across encounters with his son, histories of labor, and the refining heat of tapas,…
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Becoming the Breath a Journey Through Yoga’s Inner Weather
Om Yoga Magazine January, 2026 We’ve all walked into a yoga room feeling less than whole: sluggish, stiff, and unprepared for anything resembling transformation. I did recently; my body ached, my mind was scattered, and my motivation was a thin flame. And yet, somehow, yoga did its efficacious work and I turned from ordinary person…
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The Old Style Place keeping what refuses to be known quickly
I go to The Old Style Place not looking for a wizard, but to unmask and absorb what I was taught. I am grateful, and I am surfeit in the company of a crackling fireplace. At night, I sit quietly and listen to reinforce the balance of my soul.Recalibration begins when I build a fire…
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When Time Has Not Been Chosen, Attention Becomes the Work
At the gym, New Year 2026, a handwritten sign invited patrons to pick up a felt pen and mark their choice on a whiteboard: 1. Relive 2025. 2. Skip ahead to 2027. Four marks beside the first. Eight beside the second. What struck me was not the count, but the absence of a third option,…
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