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, I’ve 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 sādhana is simple and yet not easy. I watch my judgments rise and do my best not to feed them....
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, I’ve 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...
It happened slowly, so quietly, I almost didn’t 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, “I...
Sometimes, healing arrives like thunder—loud, 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 what’s...
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 graceful—but when we’re 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 people—eye-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...
We are being asked as a collective community to pause. Time has altered, routines have changed. Our constant need to be somewhere out there is now limited to the boundaries of our house. In this time where we mostly withdraw from the external ventures, we are...
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...
Many people live pretty stressful life-styles these days, never taking the time to stop. Every one is running all the time. Everyone is busy. They take very little time to truly relax and just cannot stop being busy. When they do stop, it is for...
For many of my students the best part of my yoga class is the practice of Yoga Nidra or psychic sleep. Yoga Nidra a very deep relaxation. At the beginning of this practice, yogis and yoginis are given the opportunity to make a resolve....
As we get ready to begin another new year, let us take a moment to ponder on how balanced our life has been in 2012. Have we been able to commit sufficient energy to both work and personal life? Do we have special memories of...
I had once the visit at my studio of an Indonesian woman, originally from Flores, who was the wife of a Balinese man. She had a Christian background, and was having difficulties adjusting to Balinese Hinduism and culture. When she entered my yoga studio, she...
Dear all, I am currently in the middle of leading a Teacher Training “Yoga Pranala Intensive 2012” and I feel so honored to witness the transformative process of the teacher trainees unfolding, each one at their own pace, according the to divine timing for the good...
Dear all, I am currently in the middle of leading a Teacher Training “Yoga Pranala Intensive 2012” and I feel so honored to witness the transformative process of the teacher trainees unfolding, each one at their own pace, according the to divine timing for the good...
Broken heart I can help, heart broken go to the hospital. ~Tjokorda Gede Rai Many years ago, when I got diagnosed with a cyst on my ovary, the doctor recommended that have surgery. I was fortunate to have consulted an open-minded doctor because when I told him...
During my last holiday, while I was traveling in India, I had the great pleasure of reading a fabulous novel called Shantaram, written by Gregory David Roberts. The opening paragraph of that book had a powerful effect on me. “It took me a long time...
“I am not my body, my sexuality, my money, my profession, my material possessions, my social status, my emotions, my relationships, my thoughts, my intellect, my mind, etc.” I am consciousness. I am a unity of spirit; I am a unity of light.” I have you...