07/27/2026
Credit to Yoga Medicine by Tiffany Cruikshank It’s easy to get caught up in what we think we know. 🧠
And while learning matters, understanding often asks something different of us.
It asks us to stay curious.
To loosen our grip on certainty.
To remain open to perspectives, experiences, and possibilities we haven't fully considered yet.
Our practice — especially off the mat — gives us opportunities to do this every day.
It’s in that space of curiosity that we can do away with the need to have all the answers and become more graciously open to what we don't yet fully understand.
That openness has the potential to hold so much... and is often where wisdom begins.
💭 What would it look like for you to approach today with a little more curiosity?
07/27/2026
Credit to Open Pathshala | Learn Sanskrit Sanskrit has no word for religion.
Not because the concept was hidden. Because the category didn't exist.
धर्म (dharma) comes from √धृ - to hold, to bear, to support. It is the property by which a thing holds its own nature. Fire's dharma is heat. Water's dharma is descent. Remove it and the thing stops being itself.
The Mahābhārata says so in as many words:
धारणाद्धर्ममित्याहुः - it is called dharma because it upholds.
(Śānti Parva 109.11)
Which means every time you read svadharma as "my religion" or even "my duty," you are reading a colonial filing system, not a Sanskrit word.
This is the whole reason we teach the language and not only the translation. A translation gives you someone else's decision about what a word meant. The root gives you the word.
Save this one. 🔖 Then open Gītā 2.31 and read it again.
Free Sanskrit eBook - link in bio.
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07/26/2026
Credit to Inside Yoga Magazine Some of us scrape the floors. Others can afford the apartment.
Today Inside Yoga Magazine published its first major reported piece on executive compensation in the yoga industry.
The findings are drawn entirely from public IRS Form 990 filings — documents that nonprofit organizations are legally required to submit and that are available to anyone who knows where to look. Everything in this article is verifiable. Nothing in it is opinion.
What the data shows: the Yoga Alliance CEO received $519,881 in total compensation in 2024. In the same fiscal year, the organization reduced its workforce by 25.5% — from 51 employees to 38. Total staff salaries fell by $778,220. The CEO's compensation increased by 63.2%.
We compared those figures to the CEOs of comparable trade organizations: the American Massage Therapy Association, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the American Dental Association. We compared them to the CEO of Doctors Without Borders, which deploys medical teams into active conflict zones.
We also compared them to what a working yoga teacher earns.
The article does not tell you what to think. It gives you the information and asks you to decide. That is what independent trade journalism is supposed to do.
The link is in our bio. It is long. It is worth your time.
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