Author: Jami

Flashback: Houlihan’s Restaurant, Bethel Park, PA. It’s the mid-90s, and my feet are sore and achy. Hair is in a messy bun. Cheap makeup floods the pores of my youthful…

“My thoughts are gone. I have no thoughts,” I say as I enter the ER at a small hospital in Puerto Rico, where I live. The receptionist speaks no English…

Satya: Truthfulness. Satya is one of the yamas (restraints) of the eight limbs of Ashtanga yoga. It loosely translates to “truthfulness” or “being truthful”.   “Speak the truth that is…

Every year it’s the same. And the older you get, the more the same it is. The food, music (UGH. Christmas carols), holiday parties, ugly sweaters, decorations, the gifts –…

I hate traveling. Especially by plane. Alas, I have to travel because I live on an island, and swimming or boating 1,000 miles would take too long. So I must…

June 7, 2017 I was in NYC last week for six days of morning Ashtanga yoga practice with Parampara Guru R. Sharath Jois. This made my 15th full week of…

You need not have eyes to find spirituality in India. It is everywhere. You can hear it – in the Vedic chants streaming eerily from the robed men and women…

Would you like to have a Netflix streaming service in your head with no monthly subscription fee?  Sounds pretty cool but I DO have one of those, only I never…

“No fear, no fun” is what my yoga guru tells us after a student asks him about overcoming fear in an asana (yoga pose/position). A little fear is good (not…

About four years ago I began reading books a lot of self-help books in the bathtub. I think I did it partially because I lived in Pittsburgh in the winter…