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How do we own what's ours within systems of unequal power distribution? Recently, a friend of mine and her partner found themselves in a...

A few weeks ago, over the holidays, I was in line at a Starbucks when the mother of one of the employees came into the store to surprise...

Last week, one of my clients was telling me about her past experience with a yoga teacher. “She was young, thin, her body could do...

It’s Not Exercise, It’s Not a Workout, It’s Training (here’s why) When I talk about the kind of work that I do, or how I move my body,...

body neutrality picks up where positivity falls short. When I was a freshly-minted new yoga teacher, I had one goal with my students: to...

let's talk about yoga alignment Have you been told that there is a right way and a wrong way to do a pose? Maybe you were taught one...

You may not have heard the term, but you are already an expert in healthism. As invisible and pervasive as the air we breathe, healthism...

As I’m writing this, my dogs are barking fiercely: the lawn maintenance company is trimming some hedges around the house, and as the...

In my last post, I mentioned that trauma was a particularly tricky word to define. According to the US Veteran’s Administration, 7-8% of...

Yoga, meditation and other somatic practices have long been part of indigenous communities' ways of healing and spirituality. If we're...

This week’s blog is inspired by an Instagram post by one of my favorite gyms-that-I’ve-never-been-to, 13th Flow in Chicago. I’m not sure...

“I don’t want your love and light if it doesn’t come with solidarity and action.” -Writer and activist Rachel Elizabeth Cargle In the...

One of the defining moments in my yoga career happened in a far-away town, where I was visiting and attending a yin class. It was an...

Scrolling through my fitness-heavy Instagram feed, I sometimes see "motivational" quotes like these: “Never miss a Monday!” “No excuses…...