BREATHE N BOUNCE

  For the first time in seven months today, I practiced Ashtanga yoga, which quite frankly was the baseline for my yoga teacher training. It also is probably one of the most gratifying, challenging practices when it comes to yoga. At its core, it's pure. It doesn't change. There is no creativity. You can't make the class cutesy. You just have to teach it as it is. Sure, there's the express form of it that many health clubs teach, but it still is the same sequence — the same sequence of breaths. And very much like time, it doesn't change. It doesn't criticize. It is just there for you to take a part of. As people know, my yoga journey has been interrupted because I got caught up in a lot of the propaganda regarding many fitness brands hijacking the practice. I found myself questioning people going to yoga studios that I watched say some crazy shit about other students just trying to do their thing. I started to question what yoga was. I found myself not want...

Stop Wasting Time on Social Media Comparisons: 7 Hacks for Digital Sanity I’ll be real with you, this last month has been really tough for me. I’ve found myself in those weird, dark loops where you’re just scrolling and scrolling at 2:00 AM, and suddenly you feel like everyone else on the planet has figured out the "life" thing except for you. It’s a shitty place to be. You see a former high school friend posting about their third vacation this year, or some "wellness guru" showing off a kitchen that looks like it belongs in a museum, and suddenly your own living room feels like a cluttered mess and your bank account feels like a personal failure. We come out from the deep holes we create for ourselves, but man, social media makes those holes so much easier to dig. Who comes up with these things? These algorithms are literally designed to keep us hooked, and unfortunately, they often hook us by tapping into our deepest insecurities. It’s a form of brainwashi...