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Notes from House of Tarot rehearsal: in one piece, I stand in the front of the line while a woman with pointy red fingernails reaches around

<p>When I announced my intention to shut down the Yoga Enlarged program at the end of July 2017, lots of people figured it was all about money. &#8220;Too bad you were never able to make enough money off that one,&#8221; they said.&#8220;I just wish you had made more money,&#8221; they said.&#8220;Better luck next time,&#8221; they [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Replenish: the Spa Co-Op, which is the home to&nbsp;Yoga Enlarged, is Columbus’ only donation-based yoga studio. This unique model of support is a new-ish idea in the yoga community that hopes to destroy financial barriers that stop people from practicing yoga. In a traditional model, the studio tells you what to pay when you come [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Yoga teachers love to tell you about “the fullest expression of the pose.” I first started hearing this little phrase a few years ago when some Vinyasa teachers I know began to experiment with bringing inclusive language into their classrooms. Everybody was getting clear on the fact that saying “the real pose” was going to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The mythology of transformation is the cornerstone of advertising.&nbsp; Offering to reduce the large and small discomforts inherent in being human, what we yogis might call&nbsp;dukkha, is the bread and butter of marketing.&nbsp; Our dissatisfaction with ourselves and the world around us is used as a lure to entice us to buy cars, soda, shampoo, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I spent the first twenty years of my life not loving myself much at all, and then somebody I loved stopped loving me.&nbsp; In retaliation, I took up bellydancing.&nbsp; This wasn’t an act of bravery or courageousness of any kind.&nbsp; I was grasping at straws.&nbsp; I went to dance class in oversized overalls covered by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I have a picture of myself at age 18 flying a kite on the beach in Ocean City, Maryland.&nbsp; I am wearing one of my favorite shirts of all time, the same shirt I had my senior pictures taken in, a long sleeve black turtleneck sized 3XLT.&nbsp; I imagined that I had this kind of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Years ago, I came across this quote from supermodel Cindy Crawford:  They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. I was recently reminded of this arguable statement when I received an invitation from [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today I was leading the boys in a meditation, and right in the middle I totally lost all confidence in what I was doing. My inner critic became sure that the boys thought I was a wacko and that this was the dumbest thing they had ever done. At the end of the meditation, I [&hellip;]</p>