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“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?

They caught shade last fall over their Jessamyn Stanley cover. The yoga community was thrilled so see our self-described “fat femme” sister on the cover —

In the summer of 1994, I met a tall, handsome, smart, funny man who suffered from a broken heart. Let’s call him OB. OB’s broken