It's easier to sit for meditation, chant, or step onto our mat when life is smooth. The breath feels steady, the mind is lighter, everything flows. But life isn't always like that. Sometimes grief hits us, our plans collapse, leaving us feeling unsure of how...
Last week, I visited the Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts de Québec with a friend. Her art is powerful, raw, and luminous all at once. One part of the show was a video that touched me so profoundly. Niki...
As we progress in life, we all experience different seasons, some requiring action, and others contemplation. In one of those long seasons over the last few years, Iâve found myself in a slower, more tranquil space, where the drive to push is easing, making room...
As we progress in life, we all experience different seasons, some requiring action, and others contemplation. In one of those long seasons over the last few years, I've found myself in a slower, more tranquil space, where the drive to push is easing, making room...
Like mist rising off the water, judgment dissolves when we meet it with presence, not force. Just breath. Just noticing. Just letting go. These days, my sÄdhana is simple and yet not easy. I watch my judgments rise and do my best not to feed them....
This is where the real yoga beginsânot on the mat, but at the feet of silence.. My first introduction to yoga was in Montreal, sometime in the late 1970s, when I walked into the Sivananda Centre and was met with something that felt ancient, solemn, and...
There is a quiet moment, right between our inhale and exhale, where we are asked to trust not only in the breath but in life itself. That slight pause can feel like the scariest place to be. We hear it all the time in yoga: surrender,...
These days feel heavy for so many of us. There's a sense that things are shifting in ways we can't quite put our finger on, a quiet unravelling beneath the surface. Whether it's something personal we're facing, the sadness of what's happening in the world,...
Lately, Iâve been reflecting on what it truly means to be a modern yogini. For me, it's not the kind of yoga we scroll past online, the curated asana photos or aesthetic lifestyles. It's the kind of yoga that meets us at home, on the...
Students of yoga often react when I tell them that yoga is about controlling the mind. It challenges their understanding. The mind cannot be controlled. But the mind is at the heart of the yogic path. Interestingly, neuroscience is also beginning to echo what yogis have...
It happened slowly, so quietly, I almost didnât notice. No fireworks, no dramatic turning point. Just a gentle shift. I was sitting in a little restaurant in a very vegetarian area of India, sharing a meal with a friend. At one point, she said, âI...
Sometimes, healing arrives like thunderâloud, wild, and unstoppable. And sometimes, it comes so quietly that we almost miss it. This is a story about one of those quiet moments that changed the way I understand release and taught me to listen not only to whatâs...
Learning to let go requires quiet strength, softness, and great courage. It is one of the most tender and powerful aspects of being human. It sounds simple, even gracefulâbut when weâre deeply attached to someone we love, a version of ourselves, or a dream we...
Dear friends, When I was in my mid-thirties, I was diagnosed with a cyst on my ovary. That experience sent me on a healing journey that changed my life. Along the way, I discovered something surprising....
I taught at the Bali Spirit festival this year and had some truly interesting conversations with younger peopleâeye-opening, actually. They spoke of non-lineage yoga, non-binary yoga, queer tantra⊠a whole new language and approach to the practice....
We just experienced The Great Conjunction constellation and Winter Solstice - which represent a reset, a transition to a new era, and a time to shift our way of viewing the world. The new year of 2021 - is a renewed opportunity to align ourselves with...
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Happy International Yoga Day! We are celebrating the day by diving deeper into the essence of Yoga Yajnavalkya. YÄjñavalkya is an essential treaty of Yoga that is not widely known amongst yogis in the West. Though many historians believe that its origin can be traced...
On June 01, I am turning 60. Most of us don't like to talk about ageing. I found it very interesting as we are all ageing. We cannot avoid it, and why not ageing with Grace? Why not make it the best time of our lives? Ageism is everywhere...
Your outer world of form and experience is a reflection of your inner world of thoughts and feelings. As above, so below. As within, so without. That is the Law. The greater your awareness of the Presence of God within you, the more that Presence fills...
I have been living in Asia for almost twenty years and every time I go back to the west, as a yoga therapist, I am concerned by the number of people who have health problems due to weight issues. I once read that in the...
Yoga therapy aims at cleansing and purifying the body and mind but more importantly at connecting us with our higher self. Yoga therapy teaches us to regard the experience of illness as a challenge not to be feared and as an important teacher for the...
The body is our greatest teacher and sometimes pain is necessary to put us on the right track. We need to listen to our body by paying attention to the areas that are sore or stiff, without judgment. The practice below is designed to relieve you...
We all have been wounded emotionally at one point or another and most of us hold the memory of our past wound in our body. Theses wounds are imprinted in our emotional body and cause us to repeat the same patterns over and over. If...
Most people upon being diagnosed with a Herniated Disc are dreadfully concerned because the prospects of recovery are known to be infamously slim. They think: âOh! I am in for a long haul of discomfort and suffering.â They often believe they are condemned to a...
Surrendering your pain is an excellent exercise however; it is pain that teach us to be compassionate. What is important is to not hold onto past experiences. Living in the present sometimes means to feel our pain deeply and to stay connected to it in order...