To do one thing at a time is so unusual in our culture that we may feel sheepish doing it. It’s downright counter-cultural. It’s radical.

$100,000,000,000 – Estimated Total Cost (per year) associated with Back Pain in the US (as of 2009). 31,000,000 – Number of Americans...

Saying NO to the million tiny habits of body and mind that contribute to feeling diminished, to feeling like I can’t go on.

I kept catching myself lifting my shoulders, hunching toward my paper and holding my breath. Old habits die hard.

Sometimes the most “productive” thing to do is nothing. Productive of renewed energy, refreshed thinking, rediscovered enthusiasm.

When I was little, my mother put a piece of paper on the fridge with a magnet. On the paper she had written “NO COMPLAINING!” That...

Hunching over or puffing up are not benign, but are instead powerful information about what is happening inside our children (and ourselves)

I’m a big fan of movement. But sometimes this moving-to-try-not-to-be-stiff is counter-productive.

“I’m so mad at my body!” my student reported to me on Monday morning. I imagine many of us have felt this way.

What a revelation to be in the city and to See it, Breathe, and not make myself small. To be present in a way I never was in my 20s.

We all wish for change to be a relatively fast, easy and painless process, but real change is slower and slipperier.

The hardest thing for me is the RESISTANCE. Because actually taking the simple steps that would make me feel better is still SO HARD.

A warm-up is a preparation. It may, quite literally, warm one up, but it also gets one in the right frame of mind to do whatever is next.

As if I can control life, death and the unruly world itself by scheduling things right.

Imagine you are a candle. Your head floats up with ease like the flame. Your feet melt into the ground like wax.

What big decision did I ever make without walking? What inspiration ever came to me indoors?

What if the PAUSE is where the good stuff happens? The PAUSE is the place of inspiration, of creativity, of discovering the unexpected.

Isn’t it funny, I thought to myself, that I react to fatigue by doing things that make life harder for myself?

When I stop and really STAY in this moment, I realize the effort I was making to try to be in two places at once.

It's not just learning to stop tensing my shoulders. It's about eschewing a straightforward, well-defined parenting path to stumble down a