Tag: authenticity

• July 6, 2023

  Finding My Way Back

  “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” Gandhi Today is a new day. A different day. I will not post a sutra, relate it to the moment and then go on to analyze what Satchidananda and my brain have to say about…
• January 7, 2023

  We Are One

  Today, we return to the yoga teacher training after breaking for the holiday season.  Happy 2023 everyone! This is our final month, which seems unfathomable. Will we really have 200 hours on January 28th? Impossible. Also, I know nothing. I have scratched the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Me, teach?…
• December 31, 2022

  Interlude

  The past three days, I’ve been in a cabin in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Outside the windows the snow shrouds the earth, the lakes, the trees with their boughs reaching to the heavens in mostly gray sky. There is a peace and stillness to the surroundings, if you can hear it. If your mind will…
• December 22, 2022

  Satya: On Authenticity

  What is the truth? When I was in graduate school, longer ago than I want to admit, the social sciences were grappling with postmodernism. According to postmodernism, there really is no truth – truth is in the eye of the beholder and based on conditioning. There was some tension between this and a belief in…