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How many balls can you juggle?

Tatjana juggles, it is something about her that endeared me from the moment we met. She’s actually quite good with a ball – she was a national basketball player for Croatia, she’s good at handball; she just has great eye hand coordination. I don’t. I usually duck if a ball is headed my way. But I am the master of juggling proverbial balls in the air. Right now I feel like the Cat in the…

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Asana practice by a Cormorant

It is a lovely day here in New Orleans, January 6th, Epiphany, the beginning of Mardi Gras and a temperate winter day as we have come to expect here in the Gulf South. The dogs and I romped through the park this morning and there was a bird party going on. Geese, grebes, ducks, swans, cormorants, pelicans – it was looney. As we rounded the backside of the park and were making our towards the…

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Prime directive – find a guru

In my last yoga class Aaron was saying that you are compelled to go to yoga for your own specific reasons – he said he first went to learn how to fly. I’d have to say most times I am blind to my intentions. For example, I didn’t begin yoga to accomplish anything much less did I have an imperative. I had taken one too many yoga classes in the Bay Area – none of…

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