Yoga Philosophy

Love like you are an atheist? What? My niece in Vienna Austria posted this on Facebook, and it made me want to share it will all of you. It is titled: Why did God create atheists? There is a famous story told in Chassidic literature that addresses this very question. The Master teaches the student…

Can you move beyond the labels others place on you? Yes you can. It’s a trait we were all born with. All we need do is 1) realize it, and 2) rise beyond it. What, are you stupid or something? You are such an idiot. Don’t even bother trying to do that. You are too…

How to Deal With People Who Frustrate You by David (note: I didn’t write this blog. Someone named “David” did.  I found it years ago somewhere on the internet and saved it to my computer.  I have no idea who David is, but his message really resonated with me.  I hope with you too.) Deep…

When I first began teaching Yoga back in 1997, I always imagined that I would be doing the teaching, and my students would be doing the learning. But in the course of the past almost twenty years, I have found that my students teach and affect me in a much greater measure than I could…

I have less than a week to both create, and fulfill my 69-year bucket list, as on October 21, 2016, I will be 69 years old. (More about this later.) As I never fail to tell everyone when they have their birthday, you are celebrating the end of however many years you call yourself on…

We have all been sick at one time or another, but as children, a “get well” routine is established, usually by our mothers. For me it went like this:   I would lay in my bed, and every few hours my mother would come in, feel my head to determine if I had a fever.…

Rule Golden The Why–I hear you ask–did you write “The Golden Rule” backwards? It came to me years ago, after I first started practicing yoga. It happened like this: There was once a special cake I was going to make for a party that Gloria and I were going to. It’s an Austrian cake called a…