Ritual smoke: Keeping it together in altered states

I was on time but without a moment to spare, so I sneaked into the back of the crowded yoga session right before the teacher, who was new to me, locked the doors. I plopped down on a cushion, closed my eyes and began taking long deep breaths like the rest of the class. Long, deep belly breaths. But not for long.

Why a “Yoga Body” is not enough

If you pay any attention to social media – such as Instagram or TikTok, you can see countless displays of beautiful bodies bending, flexing and flowing on a yoga mat. However this “yoga” in the Western world is vastly different than the yoga that emerged as an experiential science out of India thousands of years … Read more