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Recently, Philip Goldberg had me on his Spirit Matters podcast.

We discussed the state of modern yoga, and the making of my new book: Sacred Thread: 2000 Events that Shaped Yoga History.

Please listen in here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zDEOxirzWevBAXWTRrRXx?si=o9BH91rxRpmtIbHDmXcK3w

Tracing the History and Impact of Yoga with Eric Shaw Listen to this episode from Spirit Matters on Spotify. Yoga teacher and teacher trainer Eric Shaw joins us to discuss his exhaustively researched book, Sacred Thread, A Comprehensive Yoga Timeline: 2000 Dates That Shaped Yoga History. The subject, and our conversation, goes well beyond just the deve...

My latest on Medium:

The Artist Otis Jones: 13 Notes 1.

I’ve been induced to consume turkey or ham. I lived this life innocently, hoping for the best. Sometimes, I was blessed, other times sensations fell on me unbidden—from every kind of animal I ate. Mostly pig, as you suggest, and the much-wished-for red-wattled bird. Who in this nation has been so abnormal as to not enjoy each taste? For the ham, the religious, uh-huh, but turkey is only resisted by those who fear birds’ deaths. But if I am to be complete—about myself—I will confess to so many things that weren’t plants dispatched to my throat by fate. There was a moth, one time, in a soup—in Rangoon. A spider by mistake when I was teaching school. Very small fish of a name I don’t recall in tiny Lesotho. (Yes, that’s Africa.) Hearts of a lamb, domestically, and, in Taipei, blood from snakes. Visiting Quebec’s Lake Ojibwe among the natives named Anishinabek, bear got offered on a plate.

Over the past year, I've begun to write art reviews for Texas' biggest art magazine: Glasstire.

I've got terrific responses from the local art community on these.

Take a look!

Eric Shaw, Author at Glasstire Review Shredding Cartoon, Comic, and Canon: Ruben Nieto at Cris Worley, Dallas by Eric Shaw December 27, 2020December 28, 2020 by Eric Shaw December 27, 2020December 28, 2020 In this solo exhibition, Ruben Nieto mashes high art and low. FacebookTwitterEmail