Thomas Aquinas said that beauty arrests motion. He meant, I think, that in the presence of something gorgeous or sublime, we stop our nervous natterings, our foot twitchings and restless... 

There’s an old Zen story about a little girl who lived in a lovely house, in a comfortable neighbourhood of a smallish city, much like ours. Her home was spacious and allowed for... 

Something about autumn on the coast stimulates us to action of the ant-kind. You remember that fable about the ant and the cricket? Ant busied herself to stash food and prepare her... 

On the hottest days of early fall, schedules fallen away, various chores and errands done for the moment, we stay longer on our mats in the very dry heat. What keeps us involved in... 

For a very long span of time both Eastern and Western thought and spiritual practice have puzzled over the place of the body in spiritual awakening. Is it the “temple of the Spirit”... 

In the Iyengar tradition of yoga, pranayama - breath regulation - is introduced after asana - pose work. Mr. Iyengar’s reasoning is that yoga asanas steady the mind and prepare the... 

When I came to yoga, my mother had just died at 64. Through her last illness I was reading, Stephen Levine; Who Dies?, Elizabeth Kubhler Ross; On Death and Dying and the Buddhists of...