Core Strength from a Centered Body with Donna Farhi

In our obsessive quest for lean, strong cores, we get injured. That’s what world-class Yoga teacher trainer Donna Farhi has discovered from injured Yoga teachers who find their way to her classroom for healing. Donna’s newest book release, Pathways to a Centered Body, coauthored with Leila Stuart and remarkably illustrated by Sonya Rooney, is one […]

Cate’s Kitchen Sadhana in Autumn

Kitchen Sādhanā Kitchen =  where you prepare your food body Sadhana = Sanskrit साधना, literally “a means of accomplishing something”) I first learned about kitchen sadhana from Maya Tiwari’s, Ayurveda: A Life of Balance. I checked this book out of the Jackson Hole library in during the winter of 1997. It deepened my calling. What I’ve found […]

Teaching Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

तदा द्रष्टुः स्वरूपेऽवस्थानमः ॥ ३ i.3 tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe’vasthānamaḥ
Like any good yogi, I’m a big fan of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. These sutras were the first text in the Vedic tradition I was guided through slowly, palpably.