On Her Own Birthday: America’s Pregnant and It’s Time to Deliver
How much can really happen in one year of our lives? They say that when our ancestors were cave people, the amount that a human being cognitively processed in their READ MORE
Thoughts on Yoga’s Relationship to Racism & Democracy
Don’t Be Fooled: Here’s the Truth About Yoga You might look at the above photo and think you’re seeing “yoga.” You’re not. Yoga is actually a concept meaning “union.” It READ MORE
Quarantine Chronicles: Walking to Keep from Dying
Since COVID-19 quarantine began, I have taken a long walk everyday. I walk from my apartment in Harlem along the Hudson River for a minimum 4.4 mile loop. I walk READ MORE
Quarantine Chronicles
Self and Community Care in the Age of a Pandemic It feels as like an eternity has past since I last wrote a post. Like most of you, I have spent READ MORE
An Experiment: Plant-based Eating as Life-Affirming Activism
So… I’ve been intending to explore plant-based eating for years. But I’ve been scared. Like really scared of the imagined inconvenience, the hunger pains, the fantasies about dishes that I’ve READ MORE
Breaking and Mending on the Path to Wholehearted Love
Oh 2020. I wish I could say you’ve been on fire and that all my #blackgirlmagic is making the unfathomable happen, but January of this new year was pretty sobering, READ MORE
A Time to Pause
The winter holidays and the end of the year always demand a shift in my focus. They demand a more inward than outward facing gaze, a more grateful attitude than READ MORE
The Best Yoga Teachers I’ve Ever Had
I practiced yoga for 12 years before I truly understood the powerful impact it could have on my relationship to circumstances that were challenging or out of my control. Up READ MORE
The Suffering We Carry: Why Centering People of Color is a Critical Part of My Purpose and Work
Dear Community, I heard news this week about an institution that I attended many years ago that cracked my heart wide open. It is being sued by a black faculty READ MORE
Yoga, Thunder Thighs and the Transformative Power of Self-Love
When I first started practicing yoga 20 years ago in Oakland, my boyfriend at the time never tired of watching me on my purple Gaiam mat on the living room READ MORE