Author: Jami

A blinding white streak from the sun shone down on the hood of the car that day, way back in 1980.  Windows down, gravel crunching under the wheels of our…

Notes from my first trip to study with Paramaguru Sharath Jois at the Gokulum Shala in November and December of 2011 3/18/2025 It has been over four months since my…

Grieving the sudden loss of Sharath Jois & what it was like to study with him in Mysore, India. It has been nearly four months since my guru and yoga…

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 Paramaguru R. Sharath Jois. This made my 15th full week of nonconsecutive…

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…