Put the Phone in the Bag
A phone-free dinner sounds heroic, but the real work is teaching people to use tech without getting used by it.
The Neck Remembers: Whiplash Recovery, Sagittal Plane First
Whiplash recovery in three phases — PNF and FRC, anchored in cervical flexion and extension. The deep flexors are doing math you cannot see.
The Car Salesman Check
This is about that queasy moment when you name your money motive out loud—and realize honesty isn’t the same as backing down.
Cultivating Self-Awareness Through Practice
In this video, Michael Joel Hall explores the concept of self-awareness through the practice of yoga.
Practicing Happiness
Happiness isn’t a mood you wait for—it’s a thing you train, like breathing on purpose when your brain wants drama.
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.
Compassion Meditation Changed Brain Structure
University of Wisconsin researchers found that compassion-focused meditation produced measurable changes in brain regions associated with empathy and positive emotion.
The Foot You Forgot You Were Standing On
The ankle is the joint the practice is most dishonest about. It looks like a hinge from the outside — up, down, finished. It is not a hinge. It is two joints stacked on each other, sweeping a four-cornered field, and walking only ever asks you to live in one of those corners. Then you…
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.