We all have issues whether it’s about being the oldest child and always feeling responsible for your younger siblings, or because you grew up in a toxic abusive household and have been protecting your whole life. Maybe you’re the rebel, people pleaser, quiet one, or life of the party. Perhaps you felt restricted or controlled; perhaps you are compensating or comforting because you saw how much Continue Reading
“Wake Up Calls”
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
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
Yoga Teacher Training is All About Finding Your Dharma – Your Specific Purpose in This World.
Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to be an Academy Award winning Actress. One of those powerful actresses that spoke to my heart when I was growing up…Natalie Wood, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and later in life…Meryl Streep and Julia Robertson. I loved the deep sense of emotional release I felt at the end of a great movie. I later realized through my acting studies, that what I Continue Reading