When I turned twenty one, I went to Japan on a one-way ticket with $800 in my pocket. My poor parents were probably worried sick. I think about that now more often. All I took with me was a small… Continue Reading →

Dear friends and yogis,   Recently I checked out a book from my local library I read years ago, titled: “Yoga for people who can’t be bothered to do it.“ It’s a  series of quirky short stories, written by Geoff Dyer,… Continue Reading →

After a three-year hiatus, Cindy and I traveled back to Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, and Siem Reap, Cambodia. During this time I wrote a series of emails to the students. I’m posting them here as a series.   Coffee and Yoga… Continue Reading →

To say that life has shifted over the last few years is undoubtedly an understatement. Not just for me personally, everyone of us has quite a story to tell. I met many of you originally at the gym, yoga center… Continue Reading →

As you may remember, last April the yoga classes were live streamed from Hawaii. One of the longtime students and personal friend, Rochelle, made her parents house generously available to me. I jumped at the opportunity to spend some extended… Continue Reading →

In my bodywork practice I usually ask new clients how they move their bodies. For lack of another term: what do you do for “exercise”? Often they tell me that they are practicing yoga. Frankly I don’t have the faintest idea what… Continue Reading →

Recently on an impromptu visit to Oakland, I discovered  a coffee shop on Broadway Avenue called “The Crown”. It is one of those places that takes coffee quite seriously, yet without a snobby vibe. I was charmed by a painting of… Continue Reading →

It seems like yesterday (actually about a year and a half ago) that Carrie, from Enso, asked me somewhat incredulously on the phone:”You want to call it Coffee and yoga with Robert?!” She may have repeated the question. I understood her hesitation.… Continue Reading →

On January 26, now almost a year ago, I celebrated my 65 birthday in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I had arrived a week earlier to get my bearings. I’ve been visiting Chiang Mai for well over twenty years now, consider it… Continue Reading →

As the planet and all of us on it is going through enormous changes and adjustments, the yoga world has also been turned upside down. When I began exploring yoga in the mid-70s it was a mystical art and we… Continue Reading →