Where does meaning come from? The seven wells inside us
Where does meaning come from when the story we used to tell ourselves stops working? Modern writing often directs us toward finding our purpose. The yogic tradition takes a different approach: meaning...
View ArticleThe lessons of salutogenesis: How to stay well when life gets hard
For most of modern medicine, the question has been what makes people sick? In the 1970s, Aaron Antonovsky asked a different one: what keeps people well, especially when life is hard? His answer is one...
View ArticleIntroducing Student Portal: Everything you send your student, in one place on...
Keeping track of everything you send each student — sequences, forms, booking links — can get complicated fast. And for your students, finding it all again is even harder. Meet Student Portal: an...
View ArticleStudent Portal: Give your students another reason to visit your website
As a yoga teacher, you put real thought and effort into what you offer — and you want your students to know about it. The new Student Portal gives each student their own personal space for everything...
View ArticleWhy zebras don’t get ulcers: What animals can teach us about handling stress
Wild animals experience enormous stress, but they don't develop the chronic version we do. They know how to shake it off. What if we could do it, too? Today we begin a new series of short practices to...
View ArticleStomp the stress out like a gorilla
Some stress lodges in the body and no amount of resting will move it. When we feel stuck, tight, and short-fused, we need to discharge it. Gorillas know how — they stomp, thump, and roar it out. Try...
View ArticleSlide out of the stress like a swan
When chronic stress leaves the body feeling stiff and brittle from head to toe, the connective tissue itself has stopped sliding. It needs slow, flowing, whole-body motion to lubricate again. Try this...
View ArticleWhy does a walk in the woods help you clear your head?
When you spend time in the woods, something happens in your body and mind: your shoulders relax, your breathing becomes deeper, and the mind stops chasing itself. What is going on? It is not just fresh...
View ArticleYogis before science: How yoga became a biophilic practice long before we had...
Our nervous systems know what the intellectual mind might have forgotten: we are not separate from the natural world, and we feel best when we are inside it or it is present in our living environment....
View ArticleRoot down like an elephant
Some stress feels less like tension and more like being unmoored and cut off from the body, from the people who matter, from the ground itself. Elephants know how to stay anchored. Try this short...
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