There are two schools of thought when it comes to photography, “discover” versus “create”.
Some photographers thrive on capturing the world as they find it, “discovering” beautifu...
2021-05-17 01:04:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Sweet, there is nothing left to say
But this, that love is never lost,
Keen winter stabs the breasts of May
Whose crimson roses burst his frost,
Ships tempest-tossed
Will find a harb...
PHOTO: Cheyenne was not an advance yogi, or a highly trained dancer. But she is a published model.
When she was visiting Los Angeles she emailed me. She loved my Body as Temple photographs an...
2021-05-12 02:22:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Evening arrives, glowing with color
Shimmering clouds hover on the horizon
Constantly moving, like jewels draped on a dancer’s body
Why lament the end of day?
Why not celebrate ins...
Ballerinas are usually very slender and appear to be frail and soft. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ballerinas are some of the strongest athletes I have worked with. It takes incredible s...
2021-05-12 02:07:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems the American culture has a tendency to obsess over large breasts or chiseled abs. But it is often a strong beautiful back that catches my eye.
In yoga we realize how much of a body...
2021-05-12 02:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
There is a section on Santa Monica beach, in California, known as the "Green". It is a place where acro yogis, dancers and circus people gather together and perform every weekend.
One d...
2021-05-08 02:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post
When in the morning’s misty hour,
When the sun beams gently o’er each flower;
When thou dost cease to smile benign,
And think each heart responds with thine,
When seeking rest among...
PINUP ART:
World War II was responsible for a lot of young US men going overseas to fight.
Being away from wives and girl friends was not good for morale. Surprisingly the US army decid...
2021-04-30 03:43:23 +0000 UTC View Post
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
If ou...
2021-04-28 01:49:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Above the ponds, beyond the valleys,
The woods, the mountains, the clouds, the seas,
Farther than the sun, the distant breeze,
The spheres that wilt to infinity
The one whose tho...
2021-04-28 01:28:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Maria’s strength as an Ashtanga yogi is legendary. We have done dozens of advertising shoots together but the photos I love the most are the art images we created, free of commercial constraints....
2021-04-21 04:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” –– Buddha
PHOTO: Caroline sho...
2021-04-19 21:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post
“Pull the thorns from your heart. Then you will see the rose gardens within you.” — Rumi, Ghazal
2021-04-19 21:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post
From the wreck of the past, which hath perish’d,
Thus much I at least may recall,
It hath taught me that what I most cherish’d
Deserved to be dearest of all:
In the desert a ...
It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
– Maya Ang...
2021-04-19 21:36:59 +0000 UTC View Post
THOUGH the day of my destiny’s over,
And the star of my fate hath declined,
Thy soft heart refused to discover
The faults which so many could find.
Though thy soul with my grie...
2021-04-19 21:35:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The forest, letting me walk amongst its naked
limbs, had me on my knees again in silence
shouting – yes, yes my holy friend, let your
splendour devour me.
–– Hafez, translated ...
2021-04-19 21:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
When You and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,
Which of our Coming and Departure heeds
As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
–...
2021-04-19 21:31:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah dream too bright to last!
Ah starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
And all my days are trances
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances
And where...
Alexis and Jacqui dancing together. One of the early shoots when I first built the Venice studio. The second photo shows what it’s really like doing a shoot like this.
2021-04-19 21:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Sancta Maria! turn thine eyes
Upon the sinner's sacrifice
Of fervent prayer and humble love,
From thy holy throne above.
At morn, at noon, at twilight dim
Maria! thou hast heard m...
Allow ourself
to sink into this moment
Fill our lungs with this instant
Live fully in the now
All else is illusion
conjured by our mind
–– Pardesi Pyara
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2021-04-19 21:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
No matter how hard the road
how steep the obstacles
Each day we unentangle ourselves
from our hesitations
from our doubts
and rise up
– Pardesi Pyara
2021-04-11 04:59:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Memories! A print from my first art show for “The Body as Temple” that introduced this series of yoga nudes.
2021-04-11 04:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The beauty of a woman
isn’t in the clothes she wears,
The figure that she carries,
or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman
must be seen from in her eyes;
Because th...
Fear not the world
Show them your vulnerable creation
Emerge, discard the cocoon
Its time for the butterfly to take wing
–– Pardesi Pyara
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2021-04-11 04:54:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
...
2021-04-11 04:52:50 +0000 UTC View Post
"Don't curse the darkness, light a candle." – Confucius
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PHOTO: My dear friend Leah is an amazing dancer and one of the best Pilates teachers in Southern Ca...
2021-04-11 04:51:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
And all my days are trances
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances
And where thy footstep gleams --
In wh...