When I was eight years old we took a fabulous summer long road trip across the U.S. Mom, Dad and the four of us kids loaded into the station wagon with the pop-up camper in tow behind us. Seat belts weren’t a requirement back then so we all just floated, rustled and played all over the back of that car. We would drive for a while, sometimes for a long while and then stop at a selected Continue Reading
Profound Peace from Within
Many talk about this topic and offer great insight on how to find profound peace from within. Some find it through church, community, study, action and service. I like countless others have found it through yoga. Yoga gives us a roadmap, an action plan with lots of options to find and return to love. It is through the sacred word and instructions of life affirming text; it is through and in Continue Reading
Change based on fear only works for so long…
Fear is not a positive motivator for positive change. Positive change comes from a perspective of self-love. “I love myself and want more joy, more presence, more peace in my life.” Now that is a motivator! Suffering definitely leads to change – for sure. When suffering becomes too great, change is inevitable. And, the depth of suffering can propel a soul and inspire an individual to move 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
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