
Good-bye 2020
We are grateful you are gone. Paulo Coehlo retells a traditional Sufi story about a farmer whose horse ran away. His neighbors offered sympathy for
We are grateful you are gone. Paulo Coehlo retells a traditional Sufi story about a farmer whose horse ran away. His neighbors offered sympathy for
Memphis, Tennessee—named after the ancient Egyptian capital on the Nile—is the largest city on the Mississippi River. When it was founded in the 1800s, it
It shouldn’t be only for the privileged. When I was growing up in the 1990s, I noticed that there were differences between the races that
“You are enough. You are so enough. It is unbelievable how enough you are.” — Quote from Mary Setrakian made famous by Sierra Boggess In
Last Spring 2019, I was invited by a friend to join her for an “urban yoga” class and vegan brunch in Tampa, Florida. I was
While grocery shopping one day, I struck up a conversation with a woman who complained of back pain and spine compression. I invited her to
By some quirk of fate, 50 years ago, I stumbled across a yoga class being offered at my local art museum. (There were no yoga
A few years ago, a wave of events rippled into my life: A family member was diagnosed with a critical illness. Our home flooded. Our
When I began attending yoga classes in 1998 I, like so many others, did so as a way to relieve stress. My high stress levels
When Paul Quinn College students arrived on campus in August 2019, one of the first things they did was meet with a counselor who assesses
On August 27, jazz musician Alice Coltrane would have been 82 years old. She was a light in the music world but in the yoga
How many times have you been the only Black, male, older, rounder, physically limited, spiritually-focused, gay, trans, or otherwise ‘different’ student in a yoga class?
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