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11/26/2023

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

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...

11/26/2023

Hot new ghostwriting project: a book on the range of issues showing up in today’s political scene.

Great client. Deep analysis. A lot of research!

These are kinds opportunities that get me rushing out of bed in the morning!

10/04/2022

Those of you who watch this space know I put out a book recently: Sacred Thread: A Complete Yoga Timeline: 2000 Events that Shaped Yoga History.

J. Brown talked with me about it the other day.

Love to have you give it a listen. It's here:

https://www.jbrownyoga.com/yoga-talks-podcast/2022/10/eric-Eric Shaw

08/12/2022

My latest on Medium:

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07/26/2022

Sacred Thread: A Comprehensive Yoga Timeline: 2000 Events that Shaped Yoga History

02/04/2022

http://voyagedallas.com/interview/check-out-eric-shaws-story/

Today we’d like to introduce you to Eric Shaw. Hi Eric, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today? After a rash of careers—as a fine art painter, Art History professor, a...

12/19/2021

My latest review . . .

Eric Shaw on the work of artist William Atkinson, which is currently on view at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas.

11/26/2021

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.

12/29/2020

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!

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

12/09/2020

Oh. Great word of the day.

12/01/2020

If it’s boring work, I want it to be easy.

If it’s interesting work, I want it to be hard.

10/08/2020

I'm writing a lot of fun essays and books these days

I was contacted by advocates for the great illustrator, Violeta Dabija, to help with her U.S. immigration application.

Her team was competent and smart, and I was gratified to do helping work for a fine maker of books.

I'm now moving into my 5th month of work with the anonymous author of a sci-fi, neuroscience novel.

We're close to 300 pages, and this book continues to thrill me every day I sit down to it.

And tonight, I published my second art review with Glasstire.

I love working with GT's editor-in-chief, Christina Rees, and there's few things I enjoy more than helping the public think with depth about art--especially for the galleries here on the local Dallas scene.

I write for you, my readers.

I think you'll be richly informed and entertained by this essay. Please give it a read.

https://glasstire.com/2020/10/07/battening-down-time-death-and-a-few-other-things-theodora-allen-at-12-26-dallas/
https://glasstire.com/2020/10/07/battening-down-time-death-and-a-few-other-things-theodora-allen-at-12-26-dallas/I

The walls of most galleries are white, and Theodora Allen’s paintings marry themselves to the tone. It’s not that you find patches of plain white peppering the new canvases she’s…