In my career as a basketballer and time as a cage fighter I amassed around 40,000 hours of high-level, high-impact physicality…in that time I also suffered a number of injuries and underwent exactly five surgeries. If you had to live in my body…who-wee. My knees creek when I struggle out of bed to pee every
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Great time of year to cleanse… Course, if you’re like me, there’s never really a great time to deprive yourself of all that bad shit that we like so much, is there? But kind of the same way you rake the leaves in the yard, winterize a motorcycle engine, or quit drinking for a spell
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“Is he yours?” I get this a lot when I’m walking @Gonzobulldog. “Well…” I hesitate – can you really own a living being?, “…we live together if that’s what you mean?” Because of that – and a whole host of other reasons I’ll get to – I just can’t do it… I also can’t call
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I’m not a very ‘good yogi’. (And here I use both ‘good’ and ‘yogi’ pretty damn liberally.) For instance… I’m a little too attached to worldly possessions – I’ve lost two pairs of Prada sunglasses in the last two months and their loss has effected me deeply. If you’ve seen them, for Gods’ sakes PLEASE
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For most of my life, I have been a notoriously angry S.O.B. At age 27, I actually started fighting in the cage in order to have a healthier outlet for my rage. The other day, a student asked me, “How do you deal with your anger these days?” Short of stepping into the octagon, this
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As a yoga student I would prefer that we take hours to prepare to teach a yoga class—hell, a lifetime ideally. But, as a teacher, I acknowledge that some days life just won’t allow it. Dog pukes up a bird on the floor, car won’t start, traffic holds you up, your mom (or kid) calls with a fresh
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Aristotle once said, “Societies get the leaders they deserve.” We seem persistent in our fervent hope in the system’s ability to right the course our planet is on, perhaps because the challenges that face us feel way too big for us. Nothing could be further from the truth. You are powerful beyond measure – you
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Out of a desire to synthesize some of the Top Five lists floating around out there—as abundant as they are helpful—I have compiled my own list of the top five reasons to avoid everything in life. 1. Don’t eat or drink anything! New studies show that almond flour gives us AIDS, soy contributes to ADD,
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In the bigness of their hearts, yogis are some of the most judgmental fuckers on this planet. “As a yoga instructor I truly don’t understand how promoting bone broth and paleo diets can possibly be seen as being in line with Ahimsa. And the truth is that it isn’t. Ahimsa is known as the most
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