Our brains are wired for awe says scientist Dacher Keltner*. This openness to wonder is neither naïve nor exclusive to mystics, artists,...

When we step on our yoga mat, we enter space – both physical and mental – for sustained attention to ourselves. Often, I invite students...

What throws us off balance? Distraction, stress, anxiety, fatigue, persistent pain, even hunger and thirst can influence how steady we...

FIFA’s Women’s Soccer World Cup is over. The U.S. made an early exit. The missed penalty kicks were painful. How do elite athletes...

The Harvard Study of Adult Development has followed the lives of three generations, more than 1,300 descendants of the original 724...

When you're running errands and standing in a line, look around. How many of your fellow shoppers are letting their heads drop forward?...

Change is continuous. Health is a constant balance not an endpoint. The lens of traditional Chinese medicine, dating back 3,000 years,...

What I say and what I mean. How many times have you found they don’t match up? Or, put another way, what I say and what is heard are not...

Sleep. What could go wrong? In my last blog I distilled the science of sleep relying on UC Berkeley neuroscientist Matthew Walker’s...

UC Berkeley neuroscientist Matthew Walker thinks so. Biologically mandated to support our survival for centuries, sleep is being short...

Labor Day signals a fresh start every year for me. Although I no longer teach at a school or have school-aged children, I still find...

I recently listened to On Being’s podcast host Krista Tippet and family therapist and author Pauline Boss discuss ambiguous loss, an idea...

The Natal people of South Africa greet each other saying, “sawubona”, here you are, to which the response is “sikona”, I am here. What a...

Before COVID-19 put an entirely new spin on things, I was reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, a Georgetown computer science...

One of the joys of yoga is learning how to breathe – bringing awareness and ease to something you’ve been doing all your life. The breath...

What if I told you that your brain is largely in the prediction business? And your capacity to tinker creatively with expectation will...

I am often struck by how good a smile feels. Connection, warmth, a little lift to my spirits. Who started this exchange? Did I smile...

As we begin a new decade, I’d like to plug cultivating the reading habit. Put down your phone. Pick up a book or a magazine. Focus. We...

If I were to pick one personal challenge I return to daily it would be containing the ego. As a yoga teacher I often caution my students...

The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who...