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• November 2, 2026

  Where Hatha Yoga Came From: the Tibetan Trace and Tsa Lung

  The legend says Krishnamacharya learned “real” hatha yoga in Tibet. There is no proof. But new research shows that the root of hatha yoga is indeed Buddhist, and that the texts indeed went to Tibet.

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  September 24, 2026

  Permission to Pass It On

  I have completed the Tsa Lung Teacher Certification Program with Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche. What this means for the retreats, the ski tours, and the time between them.

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  September 20, 2026

  Wind & Mind

  Wind decides a lot in the mountains. It moves snow from one slope to another, loads some faces and strips others, builds the cornice that makes a ridge worth avoiding. By the time you arrive, most of the decisions about where you can ski have already been made for you. You read what the wind…

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  November 9, 2004

  Step, Breath

  A step and an in-breath, a step and an out-breath, fifteen or twenty steps, then a pause with my forehead on the ice axe. Up there every word costs a breath.

• November 9, 2004

  On the Stone

  Changping ridge, below the Four Sisters, 2004 I sat on a large flat stone and looked at the peaks of the Four Sisters, trying to understand their characters, like the characters of the four girls who, the legend says, turned into this mountain. The eldest looks older: gentler slopes, a less sharp summit. The youngest…