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 6 my day began quite ordinary. I had a cup of warm lemon water, later some coffee as well. Subsequently I taught my on- line yoga class in the mid morning. Afterwards I was leisurely putzing around in… 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 →

I arrived back in Chiang Mai, Thailand about a week ago and almost immediately started receiving massage treatments. It is after all one of my main reasons to visit. Chai, one of my favorite to go practitioners, inquired what needed… Continue Reading →

When clients come to me with neck and shoulder issues, I can relate. A few decades ago I had three whip lash injuries in a row. The proverbial icing on the cake happened when I took a plane trip to… Continue Reading →