Patañjali, Yoga & the Bhavachakra: why we practice
The 8 Limbs & The 8 Fold Path
Ravana & Trincomalee
Between Devotion & Disillusion: Holding Complexity in Ashtanga Yoga
You Are [Not] What You Eat: A Yogic Look at Feeding The Subtle Body & Digesting Stories
Review: To Kill a Monkey - Netflix
Healing the World Crisis of Masculinity with Lord Shiva
Happy Nāga Panchami
Storming the Bastille with Poetry & Healing the Autoimmune Republic
Unity vs. Uniformity, America Awakens Its Muladhara
Is Ashtanga Yoga Dead?
Ahhshtanga
R. Sharath Jois
Can’t Buy Me Love
Aquamarine Yoga deeply bows to India as the world’s Mother of Yoga and, as integral to the sustainable education of yoga, aims to educate more yoga students about India’s rich philosophy, culture, arts, music, and cuisine!
Prose Fiction: Riptide
The Endless Knot
21 Tips for Developing a Sustainable Yoga Business
“Sustainability” is a buzz word that gets used in myriad and sometimes incoherent ways. I understand sustainability as a way of cultivating balanced and meaningful relationships that continue over time. This generally includes ecologically responsible behavior that supports longterm practice and prosperity. Sustainability is not really an option but a necessity at this point on our planet! When a business (or a whole society for that matter) is not thriving, it’s all the more reason to focus on sustainable development. Aquamarine Yoga wants to thrive as a sustainable business. Sustainability integrates mindful economic, social, and environmental behavior. It takes into account the holistic well-being of a business in all its relations. As such, it can be challenging to initiate, map, and measure!
Sāṇkhya Kārikā Q&A
I doubt that I would have been able to grasp this text if not for the supportive context of my very thought-provoking and encouraging teacher, Dr. Kuldip Dhiman, and my fellow classmates at the Hindu University of America. For 22 weeks, we met online to read, recite, and discuss each verse in both Sanskrit and English. Our class consisted of students across India and the USA. We were challenged in our thinking and encouraged to question our own thoughts.
Dhyaanam & Yama
Reflecting on ethics as essential to meditation can help us to discern dharma in our minds in order to re-establish it in our lives and thereby experience the complete path of Ashtanga Yoga.
Reusable Bottle Bags
Reduce, reuse, recycle… if you can’t refuse!
Reusable Bottle Bags are for shifting the culture around how we think, don’t think, and can re-think about single-use plastics.

