We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology..

Our job with our digestion is to absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, and to not dwell on the waste - which is my issue with some of the pop America….

I'm very happy when I have time to just be..

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'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here..

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….

It's going to be over fairly soon; it goes by quick. Even if I live till I'm one hundred, it's quick..

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….

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….

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. ….

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 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….

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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….