It's 2:00 am—your mother has finally gone to sleep (though how long she'll actually stay in bed is anyone's guess). You retreat underneath the covers, eager to capture a few hours of shut-eye. The problem is, your eyes—and your brain—refuse to close. The minutes tick...

1. You should work out because it makes you happy. I don't mean this in an esoteric way. I mean it very literally. You’ll feel awesome after you exercise. Immediately. Intensely. Unequivocally. Study after study confirms the direct relationship between exercise and...

It’s sort of an unwritten rule. If you want to make a high-protein, muscle-building smoothie palatable, you have to mix it with banana or peanut butter—and use chocolate-flavored protein powder, because you can’t trust other flavors to taste good (although, to be...

What is yoga?   At the beginning of every teacher-training program I have my students write an essay on this very question. I ask them to do this before they read any of the manuals or textbooks for the course.  As I’m sure you can imagine, I get many different...