Today is International Day of Yoga. Says who? The United Nations! Resolution 69/131 was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 2013. As part of their global health initiatives, they acknowledged that yoga, "provides a holistic approach to health and well-being, [and] also that wider dissemination of information about the benefits of practicing yoga would be beneficial for the health of the world population..." Yay! It's so appropriate that it's on the Summer Solst

The concept of transition in yoga is enormous. Check out my transition from Warrior II to Triangle for an example of what this looks like. Moving from one pose to another is the time when we are most vulnerable to distractions: thoughts, sense perceptions, egoic pride. These disturb the single pointed concentration of practice. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali call these disturbances vrtti (VHR tee), aka mental fluctuations (aka thinking ceaselessly), which yoga seeks to eradicat