I find it deeply annoying when receiving one of those chain emails that shares something and promises good luck if you forward the email to at least 10 people in the next 2 minutes. Usually it comes from one of your friends with a little message saying “You just never know.” I’m guessing most of [...]
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Drug Testing Yoga Teachers?!
I was contacted a few weeks ago by a new yoga studio asking if I would consider being involved in their upcoming teacher training program. I was interested. Considering that the studio owners were people who took the At One Yoga teacher training many years ago (in which I taught a segment), I thought it was [...]
F.E.A.R. (Forget Everything And Run)…3 tips to conquering fear NOW
I recently read a perfect acronym for F.E.A.R: Forget Everything And Run. The story of my life. We live in a time when we are always connected and always expected to respond instantly to every little tweet, text, and status update. We exist in a heightened and anxious state. This might make us more efficient. [...]
Gaydar
Women love it. Men fear it. Gaydar. An ability inherent in women and gay men to determine if another person is gay. I know a woman named KC who has startlingly powerful gaydar. KC is an annoyingly purist, abrasive yogini who has done one too many shoulderstands, eaten one too many squash blossoms, and one [...]
How Could You Not Know My Name?!
The seemingly nice Whole Foods employee was wearing a nametag which read “Gaetan.” So I said, “Thank you Gaetan I appreciate your help.” I pronounced it “Gay Tan.” I’m the kind of guy that likes to call someone by name when they’re wearing a nametag. The guy looked at me stone faced and said, “It’s [...]
Yoga Teachers Who Smoke
A few weeks back, I attended my buddy Drubner’s wedding. As the party reached full tilt, I ran into a group of people smoking cigarettes. “Hey can I bum a smoke?” I asked. Most of them know what I do for a living (teach yoga) and looked at me with an expression of such surprise [...]
Sexy Time in Vegas
To the fellas out there, imagine the following scenario. Your wife is in Vegas with her college friends for a girls’ weekend. She calls you at 1:30am, wakes you up, and with a bit of slur says the following, “Hey honey, listen, remember that conversation we had about the Hall Pass?” “Wait what? What time [...]
Gray-Haired Women are Sexy
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. [...]
Eat, Pray, Love…Hate?
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 [...]
The Schtick (Jet Blue Masterpiece)
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 [...]
