If you don’t know where you’re going, how do you get there?

If I stand on my back deck and type Los Angeles into the Google Maps app on my iPhone, the instructions on how to drive there begin: “Turn right out of the lane onto West 5th Avenue,” which is as tiny a baby step as anyone could ever want. It’s too bad there’s no Google […]

Taking Rotated Triangle to the Wall

Feeling twisted out of shape isn’t fun, nor is it pleasant to find yourself all tied up in knots. But here’s a yoga paradox: the more strongly we twist, the more we unwind. Rotated triangle pose is an intense twist, but at the beginning less of our attention goes to twisting than to maintaining balance. […]