“…the roses are heavy with a weight Of fragrance and the mind lays by its trouble.” —“Credences of Summer,” Wallace Stevens   Chlorine and coconut sunscreen. Freshly mown grass and sweat. Cucumber Melon and Cotton Blossom shower gels and body mist. Percolating coffee wafting throughread more

Morphosis (noun) 1: the mode of development of an organism or one of its parts 2: a nonadaptive structural modification   -morphosis (noun combining form) 1: development or change of form of a (specified) thing cytomorphosis 2: development or change of form in a (specified)read more

Over the last few months, I’ve been running something of a teaching marathon—picking up a lot of extra classes across all my studios to prepare for upcoming travel and, to be frank, to try to keep up with our unpredictable economy (#hustlemode). One of theread more

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see’st the twilight of such day Asread more

“May your mind inhabit life with the sureness with which your body inhabits the world.” —John O’Donohue There were no lines. No anxious cattle-herding. We walked right into the bright, clean school gymnasium. It had been transformed into a site of efficiency and safety—and clearlyread more

from Part I of (c) Sense-Care is Self-Care: Āyurveda & Yoga for Mental Resilience (2026) “Why would you want to do that?” The words came out of my mouth faster than my brain could catch them. Everyone in the room—my dozen or so classmates, the teacher,read more

In 2025, after many years of posting my writings and reflections on yoga teaching and Ayurveda here on my personal website, I decided to “expand my audience” by opening a Substack account. Hoping to reach new readers who also appreciated long-form writing, I developed aread more

The loved ones we call the dead depart from us and for a while are absent. And then as if called back by our love, they come near us again. Then enter our dreams.  We feel they have been near us when we have notread more

In the end, they got me with the tote bag. Back when I fled the publishing industry, I went through a period of radical cleansing of all ties with the publications I used to regularly consume for work (and sometimes for pleasure). This included Theread more

What’s your love language? Until very recently, I believed mine was “words of affirmation.” Maybe it was because I’m a word person—a reader, a writer, someone who expresses what’s in her mind most directly, thoroughly, and sincerely in writing. But as we come into theread more