Someone told me the other day that 37 (my age) is the beginning of middle age. So be it. Most of my friends now have gray hairs and it’s never much of anything to let your guy friends know they’re aging. But recently I saw a woman from college I hadn’t seen in many years. [...]

My favorite thing to do over the past few weeks has been to half-jokingly invite my guy friends to see Eat, Pray, Love. The responses have ranged from the mild “My wife is begging me to see that” to the uncomfortable “I’m a heterosexual” to the alarmingly homophobic “You *&#ass yoga freak!” I’m a heterosexual [...]

I’ll never forget when I first started teaching yoga. Back in the year 2000 at At One Yoga Scottsdale, a a lady from Tucson took my 10:30am Flow class. I recall long hairs on her legs, steel-rimmed glasses on her face, a ziploc bag filled with turnips (who knows?) by her yoga mat next to [...]

You might have been following the story of yoga teacher Brock Cahill’s impassioned mission to save the dying sea turtles in the oil-slicked Gulf of Mexico. Brock is raising money to assemble a team and rescue these helpless creatures before time runs out. Following is a recent interview with Brock. Q:  You were just down [...]