Beyond Duality and Toward Love and Liberation
Queer Sangha, Fearlessness, and Generosity
Healing for All: Beyond the Bandaid to a Change in Values
The following is a keynote address I gave at the Dandelion Seed Herb Conference in Olympia, WA on Oct 11-13, 2013.
Stress and the End of Stress
The Four Noble Truths The Four Noble Truths are the bedrock of Buddhism, what everything else builds upon and refers back to. They are simple yet profound. In the Nibbedhika Sutta it’s laid out, ‘Stress should be known. The cause by which stress comes into play should be known. The diversity in stress should be […]
Karma Yoga Demands a Deep and Heart-Felt Examination of Power, Privilege, and Oppression
Yoga and service is a big topic in the western yoga world right now. It comes out of a lineage of karma yoga, of seva, that has roots in India. What is implied but less explored within this is that ‘service’ within yoga almost always involves a teacher offering yoga to a group of people […]
Why an Anti-Racist Activist Conducts a Yoga Retreat in Mexico
For the past 14 years, I have been an activist in the anti-globalization movement. This has meant different things at different moments. In 2000, it meant showing up with thousands of others in the streets of Washington D.C. to protest the International Monetary Fund. In 2003, this meant traveling to Guatemala to study the effect […]