Category: Yoga
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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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Hawaiian Landscape and Transformation A Yoga Story of Meditation, Writing, and Hope
The story of one man’s emotional healing and personal transformation through the power of yoga—his bending, rising, and breathing—is connected to a unifying “yoke” and the intention for a common humanity. A day after moving into my Hawiian apartment, I was on my back, in pain, lying on a hard wooden floor. Out of desperation –…
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Who Moved the Yoga Mat
https://www.ommagazine.com/who-moved-the-yoga-mat/ Who Moved the Yoga Mat Along the way, yoga takes over and changes people. We bend, stretch, breathe deeply, and pose moves our bodies to more flexibility and efficiency, increased balance, bodily awareness, and a host of other well-documented physical benefits. Along the way, the mind improves too as we enter the land of…
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Hawaii, Yoga, and the Afterword
Ω Thirteen years ago my yoga song began on the island of Hawaii, the newest and southernmost rock in the Hawaiian archipelago. I watched Pele pour her passion in hand-to-hand combat with ocean waves in a torrent that rocked my reach and stretched my learning. My heated engagement with truth force took place in a…
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WE CANNOT FIND LOVE, IT IS NOT LOST
I hear the deep discordant murmurs, and they drive me back to source to recall oracles of love. I hear that love is the only attribute that yearns to, or can be, the fixative to our desert wandering. The proof, you ask? I have it. A friend and scholar bringing me food when I was…
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A Snake Tale To Tell Lightening Strike into Renewal
CHINESE YEAR OF THE WOOD SNAKE AND I HAVE A SNAKE TALE TO TELL While studying at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in New Delhi, I took a day trip to see The Red Fort, a 265-acre complex built in 1546 for the fifth Mughal Emperor of India. Afterward, I stopped at a roadside market to…
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dare to be dope
Someone working below the surface wrote. “A life truly lived constantly burns away the veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our truth.” dare to be dope and get into yoga as an intensive course in illusion busting; its teachers and leaders are reformers and gurus. The best ones serve…
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My Portable Home
“My Portable Home: Finding Refuge on My Yoga Mat” Published by Yoga International “Now it doesn’t matter if my yoga mat is on the bamboo floor of a polished studio in Hawaii, a beach in Mexico, or on a cedar dock over a Wisconsin inland lake. My place, where I find all that I need,…
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OM Let it find a way to you
“Wowing” It’s what a listener in Vermont wrote. Yoga Song, the audiobook, is not just speech, not just chant, not just song, but a way to let OM find its way to you; an integrated presentation of yoga as a healing force-factor multiplier for body, mind, and spirit. Click below to hear Yoga…
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Blog on a Yoga Mat
They (we, us) practice out of need, and their stories morph to create changed beings. It happens when a deep-reaching self-dialogue opens higher quality conversations connected to heart, discerned by conscious mind, and multiplied by soul. The unimportant fades as breath majestically leaves and then returns. Body postures blend into physical therapy, and the inscape…