“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.”

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

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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

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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

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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

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.