There’s something special about the weird and wonderful few weeks between Halloween and New Year’s Day. The time of too many sweet treats and cozy sweater weather and traditional recipes and Christmas ...

There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

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I often think of yoga as a practice which moves beyond the boundaries of the spoken word. I did my first teacher training in Cologne, Germany—at a time that I didn’t speak more than a handful of ...

Where do these postures come from? When did asana stop meaning seat and start meaning posture? What were the original postures? It turns out that Yoga was not always the ‘body-positive’ movement of ...

We have all heard of the commonly discussed trauma responses fight or flight. Freeze is yet another reaction we experience when our brain tells us we are in danger. But fawn doesn’t get as much ...

Everyone around us struggles in marriage. But you wouldn’t know it because most people feel bad about their struggle, so they hide it. I have yet to meet a couple who were not challenged to some ...

Before the Europeans arrived in North America, it is estimated that anywhere from 1.2 million to 12 million Native Americans—known as the Algonguian peoples—inhabited and rooted themselves deeply in ...

We know that “narcissist” has become a bit of a buzzword recently, and some folks are quick to apply it to an ex-lover or family member or friend. While awareness of this concept is healthy, so is ...