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…

I have been meditating for about two decades now. I keep going with the practice because it keeps me centered, calm, and helps me process everything I experience in life. I honestly don’t know what kind of a person I’d be without meditation in my life. I practice pretty much everyday. When I miss because life happens (like my sweet 5 year old daughter crawling in bed with me early in the morning or I just need more sleep), I am easy on myself. Then I sit down later that day or the next. I no longer let little hiccups…

We are on the cusp of a new decade. The 20s are sure to bring highs and lows for each of us individually and collectively. As thought leaders and consciousness activators, it is important that we are prepared for the opportunities, evolutions and transformations to come.  Which is why it's more important now than ever to establish, reconnect or deepen your meditation practice in 2020.  Today I'm writing about how anyone can go about strengthening their foundation to hold and flow with life with greater ease and deeper connection. A lot of us meditate only when we need it. Feeling too…

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…