While we may feel soothed by the balm of a Target haul in the moment, we remain the same person with the same struggles a few hours later. It didn’t really fix anything. The nourishment we think we’re offering ourselves is pretend.

We can effectively train our brains to focus and concentrate more easily by practicing focused attention. A specific physical posture can be a tool to help us reach an optimal mind state during a meditation, but it’s not required. Meditation is available to everyone, regardless of physical abilities.

This page is a work in progress. I’ve started by sharing some of my older essays and look forward to adding new thoughts and ideas soon, especially about how we can use yogic principles and philosophy to help us better navigate our lives and world. Our life is our yoga lesson.

It’s a really weird thing that I feel lucky to be experiencing.

I’m becoming far more aware of all the effort that goes into all this mental planning. Aware because it requires more. It used to be automatic and now it makes me tired. Things are slipping.

Miss you, friend.

When you’re in your 20s, people will tell you not to rush into marriage and babies but then one day in your 30s you realize folks are looking at you sideways for having taken their advice and you wonder which day it was that was the tipping point.

It is a constant practice to put my attention towards cultivating a life and a way of being that honors what feels true for me even if, especially if, it veers away from the conventional path my younger self had set sights on.