As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream.

The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a necessarily new and innovative response to "life as it is offering itself to us."

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

I believe myself capable of great things. Some days it feels as if I can't do it alone. It is nice to know I don't have to.

Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream.