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I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see….
I studied Sanskrit for many years, and I've got all the coursework for my Ph.D. And a lot of what's going on in American Yoga is just made-up stuff. ….
Why I wake up in the morning is that I'm still alive, and I want to figure out whatever I can before it's over..
It's going to be over fairly soon; it goes by quick. Even if I live till I'm one hundred, it's quick..
My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving..
I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here..
I just think that the reality of life is impermanence. That's the foundation of understanding what Yoga is, and we're here for however long we're her….
What I like the best is when I can be still and not move..
You're working yourself till late at night, and sleeping crazy with deadlines - you're doing it for a reason..
Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight s….
I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To rea….
I think I've always had a pretty good time in life. I mean, I've had major trouble, and major brain surgeries, and challenges in relationships - like….
Your experience is nutrition. You digest your experience and you grow from it..
When I was twenty, and my family were business people, and I had disappeared to India and they were like, "What are you doing?" I had a good relation….
The thing that I do in my day-to-day is teach Yoga, and train teachers, and train therapists, and now my life has gone to a whole other level because….
Waking up in the morning isn't a choice, you know..
I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive….
There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I do, the dharma that I do - which I love - with my teaching….
Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing..
My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga..
I have projects in life that I'm engaged in, I have things that stimulate me in my life, that make me happy. But more interesting for me is: I'm stil….