“My whole training at Samadhi has opened doors into my spirituality, my whole yoga practice, and my complete life, which I didn’t know existed. Every time I step foot into the studio, I know I have made the right step, into the right place, at the right time. I feel safe...read more

Sometimes I find myself wishing that the loved ones in my life were doing YTT with me. There are many wonderful things that I have discovered, but have no way to convey any of it to them because it is all so deeply routed in the experience itself. The transformation that...read more

Tonight was beautiful. After three months of study, discussion, growth, learning, work, and of course, play, me and 17 of my fellow yoga trainees, (Jenn in spirit) with our seven amazing teachers participated in the most wonderful graduation ceremony. While I’ll keep many of the details to myself to maintain the...read more

I’m entering a phase in life when I want to be of service. Not in a big, JFK Peace Corps manner, nor in some stark monastic tradition. I love my home, my pup, my family and friends; I love writing. I am grateful, constantly, to have good health again. But as...read more

When I began the training I heard a lot of alien language, some distantly resonant because I’d practiced yoga in the 1970s and ‘80s, and meditated with a guru from India, but most of the Sanskrit, while melodic and lovely, meant nothing. And I do not mean to say I understand...read more

The first few weeks of yoga teacher training fly by in sensory overload. There’s the vibratory rush in the chest with the chants, the explosion of emotion in a room of rolling OMs. There are lithe young bodies, sweat and heat, incense and music, the vigor of the poses, the fervor...read more

In Buddhism there’s an eight-fold path, a guidance system to help you lead a full and compassionate life, instructions to minimize suffering. There’s an eight-limbed path in Yoga, described in the sutras of Patanjali, a vital, influential contemporary of Buddha, less well known in the West. Sutra means thread in Sanskrit,...read more

The technique seeps in so seamlessly, I’m almost unaware of it, but I begin to notice: change is upon me, around me, in me. It’s a new habit, body awareness. For someone who lived a “heady” life, thinking, reviewing, reading, judging, reasoning, being physical doesn’t come naturally. Plus, exercise for years...read more

The way Socratic questions were used in medical school made me practically phobic: it was the professor pimping the student, phrasing a question so it meant: tell me what I’m thinking. It was rare any of us answered correctly, close was as good as it got. That’s not the point of...read more

When I began my yoga teacher training, an instructor and I spoke about how type A I’d lived my life, how it was normal for me to squeeze five more items on my to-do list, and how that often resulted in my ignoring my own needs, especially mundane ones like body...read more