• Explore & Adventure,  Learning

    Up We Go

    “Your plane.” An RV-8 is a sports car of an airplane if there ever was one. And this one was set up for formation aerobatics. At the moment, however, I was in command as my boss was nose deep in the auto pilot computer. Not that I…

  • Health & Wellness,  Learning

    Aerial Silks

    “I’m here because I need more playtime,” another student in the class said, in response to the teacher’s query about why we were standing there, on a Saturday morning, using stretchy bands to warm up our shoulders and feet. Really, I thought, that sums it up well…

  • Health & Wellness,  Learning

    The Year of Ahisma

    Driving home from Christmas in New Orleans in 2019, Skye and I decided that our new years resolution would be a year of ahisma, a concept from one of the yamas of the 8 limbs of yoga translated as non-violence. Our idea was to come up with…

  • Health & Wellness,  Learning

    Teaching Yoga

    Getting a yoga teacher certification had been on my “want to do” list for a long time, probably since I started consistently practicing yoga in graduate school. I knew there was a lot more order and structure to the practice then the intention-setting and series of poses…