A wake-up call is any energetic event prompting you from one state of consciousness to another. Have you ever been driving late at night and you are so drowsy your eyelids feel like they gained 5 lbs., and all the sudden you get a bolt of energy. Or you are in a rush in the morning on your way to school or work, and a deer, fox, squirrel or other animal darts in front of your car so you slam Continue Reading
Detach From Your Phone
In our effort to connect, we are even more disconnected than ever. As I walked through the airport both on my journey to Costa Rica and coming home, I saw and felt the kleshas in action through one of the most powerful demons of all – our phones. Yes, the smartphone is brilliant. It has cleverly captured the minds, bodies and spirits of our society. Even as we left one of the most profoundly Continue Reading
Practice Kindness
I remember the first time I heard about the cycle of birth and death, known as samsara in Indian philosophy. For those of you unfamiliar, it means that we as humans are destine to death and rebirth of life in the material world, bound by our samskaras (cellular manifested energy created through the false perception of ego, attachment, aversion, fear, ignorance) and vasanas. Liberation is bestowed Continue Reading
Reclaiming “Self” with Yoga
From my journal October 12, 2016 Bit by bit, we reclaim ourselves – the lost pieces that were discarded, stuffed, repressed, hidden and denied. We find and reclaim the parts we didn’t know existed, the ones we are deathly afraid of, feel guilty about or ashamed of. When we begin our practice, we embrace, empathize and forgive the inner child. We find the truth – the real, raw, energetic Continue Reading
Chakras Communicate Important Messages: Yoga, The Path to Divine Self
Does your teacher trigger you? How about your mother, father, husband, wife, friend, neighbor or sibling? Emotional triggers are energetic communication. They are based on a sensation – feeling – emotion that is attached to our subtle body (spiritual consciousness). These are charged messages from your spiritual body fueling emotion to be unlocked, let out and set free. Charged responses have a Continue Reading
How ego helps and hinders progress.
Self-Study and Journaling to help you on your path. Ego often gets a bad rap. When we talk about ego (asmita) in yoga, we are referring to the ‘I’ that driven by ignorance, and usually lacks self-worth. It is the “I” that has to be better than, prove itself or thinks it stands above all others. This identity of ego is ingrained into our culture and is wrapped tightly into the American dream. I Continue Reading