In September of 2012 I began my days with a sankalpa. I experienced a deep heartbreak and my world as I knew it shattered. I sought guidance from my teacher and she suggested, among many Ayurvedic practices, to start applying my sankalpa as part of my dinacharya, my daily ritual. Healing myself was my first […]
This holiday season I am surrounded by so many interesting and mysterious blessings. They may seem like challenges instead of blessings but I have chosen to perceive them positively. I have been consciously choosing to surrender to “the will of the universe” for about 6 months and I have had direct experiences with the truth […]
This past weekend a group of beautiful souls dear to my heart and close to my soul gathered together to receive their first degree of Reiki from my teacher John Latz. Since I am apprenticing under him to become a Reiki teacher, I got to observe the training from a different perspective. The experience was […]
When I first did yoga, it slapped me in the face. It knocked me down, spun me around and picked me back up, just to knock me down again. It tasted both sweet and sour. I knew I knew nothing but I knew I wanted to learn more. I didn’t know what I was getting […]
I have recently been introduced to the video below titled Alice Herz-Sommer. It is one of the most profound and beautiful videos I have seen in awhile. I’m sure it will be one that stays with me my whole life. Unfortunately it only has 124,000 right now and it was posted at the beginning of this […]
It’s hard for me to pinpoint one exact moment in my life where I felt was the most impactful transformation of all. This is due to the feeling that every little breath and every little action I take is impactful in its own way. Although this article is meant to show a transformation through yoga, […]
“No special practice is necessary for God Realization, I see God everywhere. If God is not there, how do so many things happen?” “My contention is that sickness is sin… Don’t kill other animals, don’t make the belly as a burial ground. I teach hatha yoga, but I don’t subscribe to the idea that hatha […]
During every yoga training I teach, there is always a confrontation with a very lucky or unlucky cockroach. We periodically meet in a room where it seems there is a colony of roaches within the walls that on occasion come out to say hi or to scare the crap out of us. And each year […]
Every time I practice asanas I connect to a deeper place. With each breath, each movement, each taste, each smell and each sensation, I make love. Yoga has taught me to love myself first as I am, with all my imperfections. So as I practice yoga on my mat, I make love with myself and […]
A couple weeks ago I had the “F&*k-it! I-gotta-get-out-of-here” moment and the first place I thought of, or rather my intuition connected with, was New York City. In fact, it felt like I was being called by Mr. NYC himself and he was sounding like an angry boss saying, “Where the heck are you? You’re supposed to […]