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• Sun Salute King, Thrive Global, August 13, 2019
• America’s First Yoga: The Fad of 1898, August 2019, Thrive Global
• Who Delivered Yoga to Your Door? Namaskars Magazine, June 2019
• Women in the Yoga Industry:  The First Flash, THRIVEGLOBAL.COM, MAY 2018
• Sleep is the First Yoga: 19 Ways to Make it Work, BLOG MAY 2017
• The Unknown History of Mindful Science and an Exercise from the Old Days, MINDFUL SCIENCE, JUNE 2017
• How to Spend a Day at the Very Large Array, THE GALLUP JOURNEY Magazine, APRIL 2017
• Upside-down & Backwards: Viva Shoulderstand!, BAHIRANGA.COM, APRIL 2017
• How Yoga went West! – PODCAST, APRIL 2017
• Peacock Pose: An Esoteric Assessment, BAHIRANGA.COM MARCH 2017
• The Yoga Way: Parallels with the Navajos–THE GALLUP JOURNEY Magazine, JANUARY 2017
• Marilyn Monroe Did Yoga. And Here’s Every Pic of Her Doing So! BAHIRANGA.COM, DECEMBER 2016
• Praising the Beast: Reflections on Trump’s new D.C. Location, ELEPHANT JOURNAL – NOVEMBER 2016
• Yoga’s Promise of Power Through Balance: Tree Pose, BAHIRANGA.COM, NOVEMBER 2016
• Who You Gonna Run to? Saraswati: Her Magic of Wealth and Power, YOGA INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 2016
• Stories of My Practice: A Yoga Interview by Carolyn Arnold, BLOG OCTOBER 2016
• Building the Bird Body: The Road into Rooster Pose, BAHIRANGA.COM SEPTEMBER 2016
• Who’s the Goofy Elephant-headed God? ELEPHANT JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2016
• One Easy Chakra Healing Exercise, ELEPHANT JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2016
• Bhakti Backdrop: How the Ecstatic Tradition Came to Us, YOGA INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE AUGUST 2016
• Last of the Great World Teachers, T. K. V. Desikachar is Dead at 78, YOGA INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2016
• The Web of Angles: Yoga’s Warrior Pose, BAHIRANGA.COM AUGUST 2016
• The Southwest, The Asian East, and a Horde of Memories, THE GALLUP JOURNEY MAGAZINE, JULY 2016
• How do we explain Kundalini’s Effect on the Outside World?
  ELEPHANT JOURNAL JULY 2016
• Krishnamacharya’s Yoga Rahasya, SUTRA JOURNAL JULY 2016
• The History and Philosophy of Sun Salute: Our Surya Namaskar,
  ELEPHANT JOURNAL JUNE 2016
• History and Lineage of Yoga with Eric Shaw – PODCAST
• Hatha Yoga Ain’t no Raja Yoga, ELEPHANT JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 2016
• The Yoga Sutras and its Supporting Philosophy, BLOG JANUARY 2016
• The Happiness of Industrial Yoga, ELEPHANT JOURNAL JANUARY 2016
• Going for the Gusto: Getting Travel-Legal in Indonesia, BLOG DECEMBER 2015
• Bad American! Eric is Booted Back to Bali, BLOG OCTOBER 2015
• Weaving Yoga’s History and Philosophy into Contemporary Practice, YOGA CHICAGO JULY 2015
• Yoga’s Good, True & Beautiful, ELEPHANT JOURNAL MAY 2015
• The Difference Between Power and Morality in Yoga, BLOG MAY 2015
• A Sermon Exploring Shared Themes of Yoga and Christianity given at St. Leonard’s Church, in the City of Denmark, Australia, BLOG MAY 2015
• Yoga’s Science of Sound and Listening, BLOG APRIL 2015
• Krishna’s Beer-Drinking Bro, Balarama, and the First Appearance of Warrior Pose in India, BLOG JANUARY 2015
• Vishnu: Secret Badass Warrior, MANTRA: YOGA + HEALTH MAGAZINE JANUARY 2015
• Ancient Days with the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, BLOG NOVEMBER 2014
• How to Meditate if you Are a Hatha Yogi, BLOG JUNE 2014
• Krishnamacharya’s Business Card and the Place of Marketing in Yoga, BLOG MAY 2014
• Sutras, Translated, A Review of Bhavani Maki’s “The Yogi’s Roadmap,” YOGA JOURNAL MAY 2014
• Food is the First Yoga, The Wisdom of Krishnamacharya, COMMON GROUND MAGAZINE APRIL 2014
• Heat, Wealth and Wonder: Yoga’s California-India Connection, at the Asian Art Museum, BLOG MARCH 2014
• The Maw of the Moment & The Yoga of Family, MANTRA YOGA + HEALTH MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2014
• Don’t Fool Yourself: This is Real Yoga, MANTRA YOGA + HEALTH MAGAZINE, DECEMBER 2013
• A Tantrik Message: Sound Creates the Body, ELEPHANT JOURNAL JULY 2013
• Hatha Yoga Makes You God, ELEPHANT JOURNAL JUNE 2013
• Marilyn Monroe — The Complete Yoga Poses, BLOG, APRIL 2013
• Richard Hittleman: The 1960’s One-Man Yoga Movement, BLOG, MARCH 2013
• Lakshmi — The Wealth Goddess — Her meaning in Yoga and Tantra, BLOG JANUARY 2013
• Early Poses Of Krishnamacharya, I, BLOG DECEMBER 2012
• Review Of India: A Sacred Geography, YOGA JOURNAL OCTOBER 2012
• Making Sukha (Good Space) Both Inside And Outside, BLOG NOVEMBER 2012
• Sensitive New Age Guys Never Ruled, ELEPHANT JOURNAL JUNE 2012
• Yoga Gives You A Freakin Hot Body (Yaaawwwwnnnn . . .), ELEPHANT JOURNAL MAY 2012
• Un Abdomen Lindo Significa Una Menta Linda Como Trbaja Pranayama, BLOG APRIL 2012
• The Historical Arrival Of Tantra, BLOG MARCH 2012
• W. Broad’s Controversial “Science Of Yoga”: A Review, ELEPHANT JOURNAL MARCH 2012
• A Beautiful Belly Means A Beautiful Mind: How Pranayama Works, ELEPHANT JOURNAL MARCH 2012
• The Constancy of Protest, A Sermon given at Unity Church, Berkeley, BLOG JANUARY 2012
• Article: What Do Sexy Temple Statues Have To Do With Yoga? COMMON GROUND MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2012
• Reviews of Sadie Nardini Videos and The White Lama by Douglas Veenhof, YOGA JOURNAL AUGUST 2011
• The Bhagavad Gita And The Yoga Sutras Compared, BLOG JANUARY 2012
• Further Resources On Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation, BLOG JANUARY 2012
• How Do Hatha Yoga (Physical Yoga) And The Yoga Of The Yoga Sutras Differ?, BLOG JANUARY 2012
• Christ, Krishna And Christmas, BLOG DECEMBER 2011
• The Shared Origins of Modern Yoga and Unity Church, A Sermon given at Unity Church, Berkeley, AUGUST 2011
• A Poem From South India By The Female Bhakta, Mahadevi, BLOG JUNE 2011
• Creation Myths And Stories From The Veda, BLOG JUNE 2011
• How To Use The Indian Understanding Of Vibration To Make A Yoga Workout, BLOG JUNE 2011
• A Pictorial History Of Yoga, Dance And Martial Arts, BLOG MAY 2011
• The Baptistes: America’s First Family Of Yoga, BLOG MAY 2011
• The Agnis (The Fires) Of The Subtle Body, BLOG MAY 2011
• Yoga Flows In History: A Lecture For The California Institute Of Integral Studies, BLOG MAY 2011
• Kali–Calm, Cool Trickster, BLOG MARCH 2011
• The Yogawoman Movie: A History Of Women In Yoga, BLOG FEBRUARY 2011
• The Timeless Tradition of Naked Yoga, COMMON GROUND MAGAZINE, JANUARY 2010
• An Exhaustive Bibliography of the Books of B. K. S. Iyengar, BLOG DECEMBER 2010
• Yoga Journal Review of Stretch by Neal Pollack, YOGA JOURNAL OCTOBER 2010
• 35 Moments: A Timeline of Yoga History, YOGA JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2010
• Lazy Man’s Levitation: Why We Say Yes to Yoga On a Rope, COMMON GROUND MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 2010
• Magana Baptiste and the Performance of Yoga, COMMON GROUND MAGAZINE, DECEMBER 2009
• Beautiful Belly, Beautiful Mind, COMMON GROUND MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 2009
• Have some Pop Yoga with that Cafe Au Lait?, YOGAHUB JUNE 2006