Ti’s Blog
What Is the Ego?
November 17, 2023-January 17, 2024 In general, a healthy and functional ego is of critical importance in life, but also even more so on the spiritual Path. That having been said, much of what follows are the more painful ways that the ego shows up, since they are...
Loving and Grading Oneself
December 18, 2023 Me (after leading the pose of the past two years for the final time for some people): “Self-evaluation. Did you pass or fail?” A student: “Pass, because I love myself.” (This is also the month for the “I love you, I love you, I love you practice”...
Thoughts on The Pope’s Exorcist
September 5-November 3, 2023 In a weird circumstance, though I don’t watch TV or movies much anymore, I did watch The Pope’s Exorcist on Netflix in September. Even weirder is that I’m writing about it! In part, it is a horror movie, a genre I haven’t watched since...
I Am…Perfect
I Am…Perfect 9/5-26/23 What follows is the fruit of my meditation retreat at the beginning of September. (And includes a line thanks to Iryna who included it in her comments to me when I asked her if the sharing of all this was “over-the- top.”) I am complete...
Grace, Part 2: Giving Ourself Our Own Grace
September 3-5, 2023 “God is always showering grace upon us. But to avail ourselves of it and let it benefit us, we need atma-kripa, our own grace. …Divine grace is ever-flowing our way. To receive it, we must first open the closed doors of our heart. Hence, more than...
Yoga Alliance (Mistakenly) Thinks You Can Learn to Teach Yoga All-Online!
What follows is an open letter (email) to Yoga Alliance (YA) in regard to their recent change in policy to allow all-online yoga teacher teacher “trainings” permanently. Yoga Alliance is a "registering body" that "oversees" yoga in the world. They do not "certify,"...