Ashtanga Without the Cultural Scaffolding
Ashtanga as practiced in most Western shalas is a stripped-down version of something larger. The asana sequence got exported. The scaffolding mostly didn’t.
Whose Pain Is This?
This is about compassion as a perceptual shift, not a mood—when the line between your pain and theirs stops behaving.
The Foot You Forgot You Were Standing On
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Screens Aren’t the Villain
Cutting school screen time sounds righteous, until you notice we’re banning the tool instead of teaching kids how not to get played by it.
Free Money Isn’t Free
Those “no essay” scholarships can be a raffle ticket you pay for with your data—so let’s talk about cleaner ways to search.
Why Your Knee Doesn’t Rotate (and Why That’s a Gift)
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Head for the Light
This is about aiming your attention toward what’s still here—without lying to yourself about what hurts.
The Lotus Quadrant and the One Beside It
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Avidya: Why Patanjali Calls Ignorance the Root
Avidya translates as ignorance, but the English word misses what Patanjali means. He’s talking about a perceptual error so deep most people never notice it.
FADIR Is the Test AND the Training
Flexion + adduction + internal rotation. Three combined movements at the hip, performed by a clinician, looking for sharp groin pain. Pain is positive: the patient probably has anterior femoroacetabular impingement. The position is called FADIR, and it is one of the most reliable hip-impingement screens in sports medicine. It is also Protocol 3 in…