A couple years ago I noticed a rising trend in some Western Yogic communities – a thing called yoga liability insurance. Now, just a couple years later, it appears that it has not only become popular, but it is also considered to be a standard requirement for yoga teacher. I suppose that sounds like a [...]

“Students came and generally went. Those who craved an easy path, that of instant sympathy and comforting recognitions of one’s merits, did not find it there. [My guru] offered his disciples shelter and shepherds for the aeons, but many students miserly demanded ego-balm as well. They departed, preferring before any humility, life’s countless humiliations… They [...]

Everything we can see comes from something we can’t. Everything comes from nothing. As long as we humans remain, I think that this will be something we’ll struggle to grasp. Religions and spiritual traditions have devised ways to try and illustrate it. God is the Unseen from which all this world has arisen. In yoga [...]