Three Questions for When Your Practice Is Stuck mtift Tue, 08/11/2026 - 07:42 Out on my bike last week, I realized I had forgotten to disable notifications on my phone, which I use as my bike computer. Part-way into my ride, someone messaged me about work, and suddenly my mind started deliberating. My biking meditation stopped, and I spent the next couple of miles thinking about the message I did…
Two Things Instead of a List mtift Tue, 08/04/2026 - 08:03 During the summers in Minnesota, just about everyone I know gets busy. We have a few glorious months to go outside in shorts and sandals, and we use them. For my family, with both kids in town from college, that means more weekends at the cabin, swimming, boat rides, saunas, and sitting by the beach. Meanwhile, the rest of the world keeps…
Breathe, Relax, Feel, Watch, Allow, Repeat mtift Tue, 07/28/2026 - 09:18 The first time I heard one of my Kripalu teachers say “ BRFWA ,” I thought it sounded kinda like a sneeze. Not the tidy acronym RAIN, which rolls off the tongue when you want to remember “Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.” Most of my teachers pronounced it “BRIFF-whah.” Yet, awkward names don’t make a practice less…
Taking Stock as a Skill mtift Tue, 07/21/2026 - 18:36 Marnie and I have been taking stock now that we’re empty nesters. With one kid in college and another in grad school, life is different. We’ve been talking about how to spend our days, how much to travel, and what our next house projects should be. That’s one kind of taking stock, and it’s the kind most people mean when they use the phrase…
The Movie I Lost and the Software I Found mtift Tue, 07/14/2026 - 08:45 My Daughter’s First Days Shortly after my daughter was born, near the beginning of my year as a stay-at-home dad, I made a short video of her first days using iMovie. This was long before phones could shoot video with a tap or apps auto-generated “memories.” It took me days to finish, even with my fancy Apple PowerBook G4 and…
You Don't Need Four Specialists mtift Tue, 07/07/2026 - 07:37 One of the statements that I often say before savasana , near the end of a yoga class, is: “we’ve done meditation, breathing, postures, and now it’s time for relaxation.” I’ve said a similar version of that sentence for years, and it’s a reference not just to science, but also to four of the eight limbs of yoga: Yamas : social ethics…
The Wonderful and Amazing Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge mtift Tue, 06/16/2026 - 07:58 Over the weekend Marnie and I drove up to Duluth to celebrate her birthday at our favorite bed and breakfast on Park Point. We’ve spent a lot of time in Duluth and have done all the touristy things with our kids, but she planned a weekend of relaxation and celebration, and that’s what we got. We walked and drove back…
From Lando to DDEV: Replacing Custom Shell Scripts with Drainpipe mtift Wed, 06/10/2026 - 13:41 This article was originally published on Lullabot.com Long-running Drupal projects accumulate local development debt. For example, say you start using Lando for local development. You likely have a .lando.yml file and a couple of helper scripts. Over time, those scripts grow. They might source a shared…
Winter Camping and the Four Requisites mtift Tue, 06/09/2026 - 08:21 My daughter is off at grad school now, and she left a few tubs of her things in our basement. Over the weekend she came home to sort through them, and somehow the whole family ended up down there, each of us digging through our own boxes. I spent a couple hours on just one. I found a photo of myself in a Boy Scout uniform, and…
Joy in the Arboretum, Joy Inside mtift Tue, 06/02/2026 - 08:45 A lot of people have been asking me what’s happening with yoga at the Arboretum. I wish I had a happier answer. The Arboretum is one of my favorite places to teach yoga. My first class at the Minnesota Arboretum was memorable because I was greeted by a flock of geese . The summer yoga retreat at the Arboretum is typically one of the…