If you've been here a while, you probably already know that the new Treehouse Yoga Studio is almost done. I've been watching it take shape slowly, participating actively in its creation, just as how I did when I designed the current studio now. The floors, walls, windows, fixtures, and all the little decisions that require, I don't know, ten, twelve, twenty other decisions after them. There's still a lot of work to do, but it has reached the point where one can already walk i

As we move through our Year of Skillful Living, August brings us into intimate conversation with Satya. Building upon our recent practice of Santosha—learning to find contentment with what is—truthfulness asks us to take the next step: to see reality clearly, speak it courageously, and hold space for complexity. But let me go deeper and beyond by-the-book yoga philosophy in this post. Personally, I think Satya should come next to Ahimsa (sorry, Patanjali, but hear me out), be

I started writing this piece thinking about how santosha, as a concept, translated in modern living as this practice of being content with what we have or who we are at the moment and not falling prey to envy, jealousy, or greed. To not desire endlessly. After all, santosha translates to "absolute contentment". And as one of the niyamas or inner disciplines, this is how santosha is usually presented in modern yogic discussions. And yet that version of santosha seemed a little