September 2018
July 2018
Trigger Happy Yoga Teachers by Sarah Ezrin
A gust of cold air hit my face as the door of the yoga studio swung open mid-class and promptly slammed shut. A middle-aged man clomped into the room, running shoes on, dripping sweat, clearly having come in from the middle of an exercise class. 20 pairs of eyes collectively looked back to see what […]
June 2018
Why I Had To Break-Up With Ashtanga Yoga
Why I had to Break-Up with Ashtanga Yoga
I had to break up with Ashtanga yoga. We were in an unhealthily relationship for nearly ten years. I was obsessed. Slinking out of the house in the darkness before first light. Turning down dinners and gatherings with my friends and family. Watching what I ate, because Ashtanga did not […]
November 2017
Recovering From Myself
Originally posted Nov 8, 2017 on Yogapoetica.com
Once an addict, always an addict, I used my teaching career and practice as if they were drugs. Teaching every waking moment and planning my schedule years in advance gave me a bigger high than a line of cocaine. It gave me the high of feeling in control. My […]
October 2017
It’s My Marriage I’ll Cry if I Want To
Imagine this. I’m walking through the aisles of my local super market, an overflowing grocery basket hanging on my arm, when I spy an old friend walking towards me either stealing a cantaloupe or quite pregnant. “Oh, my gosh!” I gush as we delicately hug, “you’re having a baby?!”. She beams in response and as […]
Grief is Good
Grief is Good as featured on Yogapoetica Feb ’17
Between 2008 to 2015, I lost my great-aunt, great-uncle, great-grandmother, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, dog (read child), brother, and mom. My mum’s nurse used to call our family the Kennedys, so blessed, but also plagued with great loss. I come from a large family and the cycle of […]
July 2017
The Yoga Sutras Survival Guide for Political Change
We woke up to a very changed world on November 9th, 2016. The country feels divided, the future unsettled. People are looking to their yoga practice for guidance. Luckily, the yoga masters recognized that suffering is a part of being human and left us a guide book for maintaining inner peace even if the world […]
Back to Basics
When I moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco a lot of things changed especially my body. Whereas I used to have energy to do an intense daily practice, I found myself with very different needs. My life was a whirlwind, I had literally just “moved”, so instead of sweating through vinyasa after vinyasa, I […]
