The Practice of Seeking Joy I’ll be honest with you: joy is not something that comes to me easily. I don’t naturally wake up like Snow White—dreamy and alert, with a bunch of cute forest animals around me, ready to assist me with my day. As a single mom of two with plenty of things to take care of, there is usually a low-level hum of stress and fatigue that greets me as I open my eyes each morning. But I’ve learned something that has changed the way I move through my days: joy is something I...

We often treat growth as a straight line pointing constantly upward. But like most dualities in yoga, true health lies in the balacne between two opposing forces. For example, I have been thinking a lot about the duality of constriction (contraction) and expansion lately and how it plays out in our yoga practice and in our lives. On the mat, the balance of the two is the very definition of a safe and rewarding practice. Off the mat, it is the secret to emotional resilience. In our physical...

I am not a naturally sunny person. Not exactly dark either, but I have always drifted somewhere in the middle. As a small child, I was...