The answer is… nah, not really 🤨 About 100 years or so ago, yoga was the preserve of sadhus and fakirs - holy men who lived on the margins of society. It was raw, ascetic, esoteric, and often dangerous to the body. The yoga that you and I know - the kind that fills studios from London to Los Angeles - was born not in some uninterrupted ancient lineage, but in a cultural exchange between East and West. Westerners travelled to India seeking mystical wisdom, while Indian teach

Ever notice how yoga teachers can’t agree on anything?   One says, “Knee over ankle is fine.” (me) 👳🏾‍♂️Another says, “Never! Knee over...

The Yoga Sutras is a text every yoga teacher quotes - and almost no one understands. Except me of course 😏😤   So what are The Yoga...

A bodybuilder, a Maharaja, and a Domino’s pizza walk into a yoga studio… Sounds like the start of one of my bad jokes, right? But that’s...

🕷️ Spiderman, Lotus Pose, and the Web of Yoga Truth 🕸️ Here’s something all yoga students — and teachers - can learn from Spiderman....

Here’s a yoga myth: that yoga poses are timeless, handed down unchanged for thousands of years. Trikoṇāsana - or Triangle pose is the...

I have explained before how yoga can be both the journey and the destination. But what does that destination actually mean? 😳 Legend...

What is the goal of Traditional Yoga? So what is the goal of original, traditional yoga? (before the man buns, the playlists, and the...

How to fix your yoga practice (without fixing anything) The first thing to understand when you step onto your mat is this: there is no...

A question I get asked a lot (and no, it isn’t “what does Laura see in you?”) comes from yoga teachers asking me what they should be...

Theos Casimir Bernard was an American scholar, explorer, and practitioner who played a pioneering role in introducing yoga and Tibetan...

How to Sit in Yoga – Peace or Performance? By Zahir Akram Taken from my Resilient Kids Blueprint. This might be the most yogic part of...

by Zahir Akram - Eternal Seeker Let’s start with this: breathing isn’t a wellness hack or a trending technique. It’s the first thing we...

A Brief Look at the Pioneers of Yoga In the video above, I give a short introduction to the history of yoga. Of course, I’ve left out a...

A very long time ago, perhaps as much as 15,000 years ago, before anyone had heard of Yoga or the Bhagavad Gita or even Tantra, a unique loo