mindfulness

"I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed." Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus The Universal Monsters, Dracula, ... Continue Reading

A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen. The master poured the visitor’s cup to the brim, and then kept pouring. The ... Continue Reading

My greatest strength, a desire to learn and experience everything, can also be my greatest weakness. I profess the wisdom of essentialism while prioritizing ten things at once. If nothing else, I am ... Continue Reading

In the last couple of articles I wrote, the focus was on dealing with trauma—in particular divorce and how exercise was a helpful form of therapy for a number of reasons. Intense exercise creates a ... Continue Reading

There's a wide-open space in most people's training, where an enormous potential for gain goes largely unnoticed. We all know the importance of building muscle, but it's just as important to release the ... Continue Reading

You do not have a body. You are a body. You are a living, breathing human organism. With that in mind, a big component of our performance is the health and function of our nervous system. Our ... Continue Reading

Remember that squat PR you reached at age 35, or when you finally mastered the front lever and planche? How about that college class you pulled up from a C to an A? Or that first car you saved for all ... Continue Reading

At the pinnacle of every grueling workout live two types of athletes: those who choose grace, and those who choose chaos. Certain workouts reveal these qualities more than others, like a descending ... Continue Reading

Last week I shot a shot<strong">gun for the first time in my life. Upon showing up to the shooting range, I was struck by how much the sporting clay course reminded me of a golf course. It was set up ... Continue Reading

Last week, I presented a two-hour interactive workshop on yoga and mindfulness to a group of 25 girls aged ten to sixteen from the YWCA. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my career as a ... Continue Reading