As a yoga teacher for 20 years I have always believed the best kind of yoga has been attending a class in person. And that just ain't happening these days. So, what has taking yoga online from your own home taught us? 1. It's just as easy for me to show up for myself as it is for me to not show up for myself. Notice if you find all kinds of excuses not to attend your online class or if you actually own your worth and step onto your mat when you want to do it. A great way to help you show…

When your energy is feeling off, everything feels off. Your chakras hold so much energy and can bee a pathway to healing the wounds of the past. I have been working with, teaching about and healing clients with the chakras. There are so many dimensions to them and in this practice I keep it simple for anyone to utilize and deep enough for those of you who have a deep understanding of their energy bodies. In this video I share with you a practice to both cleanse and activate your energy centers and the Divine feminine energy within. This is a wonderful daily practice…

My whole life has been a search for love and a journey to my spirit. I started my search with my family and friendships. My journey led me to an engineering university and a year abroad by myself. Yoga found me when I was just 20. My heart told me I had to share it as a teacher – that it would be selfish to keep this goodness all to myself. My spirit led me to open two beautiful yoga studios over the past two decades. In them I developed relationships with so many beautiful souls. Our community has always astonished…

The Yoga Sutras is an ancient book outlining the practice of yoga. It shares with us the basis of how yoga has been practiced throughout history. Some people may claim that the Sutras have little to do with how we practice and teach yoga in today’s world where we focus primarily on the body. I beg to differ. Without even realizing it most of us are utilizing the wisdom and practices taught in the Yoga Sutras. Studying this book brings conscious awareness to how we choose to live our lives. That awareness empowers us to be more embodied on this…

Most people who study the Yoga Sutras get their first taste of them in their Yoga Teacher Trainings. I love that teachers start seeing the wholeness of yoga from the beginning of their training. Unfortunately, most yoga schools only give a little nibble of the Sutras in their trainings. Rarely do they spend more than a couple hours on the topic and they usually only give a glimpse of a few sutras, far from the entire book. Why? Does Body Oriented Yoga Need the Yoga Sutras? I think it is because there are a lot of schools out there that are very…

In my previous post I gave you a brief history of the yoga sutras and who wrote them, Sri Patanjali. Most people are introduced to the Yoga Sutras through their Yoga Teacher Training. Today, I want to provide clarity around how I believe YTT’s are not giving a complete look at this book.  They are giving a disservice to their students.  So many students leave their YTTs with confusion around the sutras instead of clarity. Here’s why. How I Was First Introduced to the Yoga Sutras Like many people who study the Yoga Sutras in the West, I originally did so with…