Reading Time: 2 minutes The oyster butterfly (Phyciodes nacre) has a short life cycle, usually dying shortly after its pupal stage. It is incapable of defending itself against predators, but has none, as it is inedible. It dies usually because its mobility is restricted by its own physiological eccentricities. Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Originally published JULY 5, 2014, https://typeayogini.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/how-the-yoga-industry-sabotages-home-yoga-practices/ After getting links to YogaDork articles on the importance of home practice and the business of yoga shortly before getting a link to this pictorial essay on at-home yoga spaces, I reflected on what the yoga “industry” is doing to undermine home practices. As we build Read More …
Reading Time: 7 minutes As I begin to train our new staff on our products, it occurs to me that newer yoga students sometimes struggle to make sense of the products now available. Over the last decade of yoga’s increasing popularity, many, many more mat products, materials, and characteristics Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is a sampling of academic work currently available online: Blog and Conference Paper, “Teaching & Philosophy ~ Perspectivism in Pedagogy.” http://fricktheory.wordpress.com Essay, “The Dugs of Tiresias: Female Sexuality and Modernist Nationalism in The Waste Land and Les mamelles de Tirésias.” The Waste Land at 90: A Read More …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Region: San Francisco Bay Area, East Bay, Delta When you say “industrial history” most newcomers to San Francisco think of Monterey Bay’s Cannery Row. When you say “Pioneers” or “Gold Rush” they think of the High Sierras or Amador County. When you say “John Muir,” Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Stunning rock formations, amazing views, ecological protections, and a deep cultural history characterize Point Arena, located about three hours north of San Francisco on the Pacific Coast Highway. State Route 1, also known as Highway 1 is the main arterial road cutting through the tiny town. The Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pictures from: Mendocino Gualala Jenner/Manchester San Rafael San Francisco Half Moon Bay Santa Cruz Marina Monterey
Reading Time: 9 minutes Dear sirs, It was with great relief I read the recent news regarding the death of Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls. Although I regret to admit pleasure at the death of a fellow human being, I must admit to having borne a secret far too Read More …
Reading Time: 10 minutes You are such an asshole, Aaron. He couldn’t think of anything else. Here he was, driving through the middle of nowhere, braving dust storms, sinkholes, mountain climbing, and torrential rains for some dead son-of-a-bitch who couldn’t bother to plan a decent funeral before going off Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minute There are some who try to inveigle Yoga students into thinking a kegel Is a Mula bandha lock, So imagine the shock When they discover it’s harder to finagle.
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the afternoons I play cards with my neighbor Blanco at the corner bistro. If you’re ever in the neighborhood around 2pm, we’ll be inside, first table by the door in front of the storefront window. We’ve been doing this for a while. At one point we Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minute Although no one knows his real name, Ophiuchus the snake charmer was born under the constellation of Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer, in the space between Scorpio and Sagittarius, from which he took his professional name. Before each tour leg, he’d search the region for local snakes. Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Gentle Giant was similar to many of the tall circus performers that toured the country throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. At a mere 6′ 5″, he was hardly the tallest. Although he was renowned for his restraint and self-control in the face of Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Albanian Marvel was born in Kansas, to an Irish-German father, and a Danish-Flemish-Russian mother. Both parents had English-speaking family back three generations, yet the Albanian Marvel was born incapable of speaking or learning any language other than Albanian. The Albanian Marvel came into fame after Read More …
Reading Time: 6 minutes He’d been coming there for a long time. Sometimes he just stared up at the clouds. Sometimes he cried. Katie hated to see him upset. Sometimes it made her cry too. Sometimes, they had great, long talks about what they saw and did that day. Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minute We set our dead into tidy rows Writing pages of graveyards, even though Whether they’re verses or curses Is known only to those Who can read it from either above or below.
Reading Time: 5 minutes He first saw her at the bookstore in the Poetry/Drama section. She was a redhead, his favorite hair color, and she wore it like his ex-girlfriend. (Not the crazy ex, but the one before that, the one he’d never get over.) It was his favorite Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Dying / is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well.” – Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” “And four black feet deep with/ Summer’s rotting rooks/ like Thomas Head’s and my time’s/ Unlamented, springless, passed.” – Assia Guttman Wevill, “Winter-End, Hertfordshire” Read More …
Reading Time: 10 minutes As he flipped through waiting room magazines, he tried to find one that would occupy his mind. He had been struggling with his body’s mutiny against him for months. At first he tried to convince himself it was just the normal act of aging, metabolism Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutes FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Note: Portions of this Press Release are supplied by the National Yoga Month organization for participating studios] September is National Yoga Month: Local Studios Open Doors to Curious Students August 28th, 2014 Martinez, CA – Throughout the month of September, local yoga Read More …