Portable Yoga
When you’re practicing far from the “real” yoga scene, yama and niyama are the parts that still work anywhere—and they tell you what’s healthy.
Be the Filter
It’s about how to learn from imperfect teachers without swallowing their whole worldview along with the useful stuff.
Stop Making Ashtanga a Cult! Part 1: The Problem
Michael Joel Hall offers a different approach to Ashtanga Yoga grounded in humanist values, personal agency, and inclusivity, rather than dogma or hierarchy.
Don’t Guess. Assess.
“Don’t guess, assess” is a data thesis. We turned every posture into a diagnostic you can actually read — joint by joint, no guru required.
Two Tracks
A teacher showed up sick, taught brilliantly, and asked a rude little question: are body and mood really the same thing?
Your Maha Sadhana
A reminder that asana isn’t the whole practice—it’s training for how you treat people, reduce harm, and maybe enjoy your life.
Who Am I? The Yoga Question Behind Every Other Question
Self-inquiry sounds soft. In practice it’s the hardest thing in yoga.
The Hip Is Innocent
Ten thousand teacher trainings have spent ten thousand hours telling students to open the hip. Some percentage of those students have hips that are not actually the problem. The hip is what gets accused. The ankle is usually what failed. Walking trains exactly one corner of the ankle: dorsiflexion with a slight inversion bias, the…
MichaelFilter: A Daily Edition of One in a World of Algorithmic Slop
Every morning before dawn, a machine I own builds me a newspaper. One issue. Numbered. Finite. It is called MichaelFilter, and it is the deliberate opposite of a feed. A feed is infinite, sourceless, and tuned to keep you scrolling — and lately it is half machine-extruded slop, text and images made by no one…
Dismantling Authoritarianism with Ashtanga Yoga: Power, Practice, Justice
In this video, we unbox the concept of decolonizing your yoga practice by removing authoritarianism and emphasizing self-study.