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...
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,...
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 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....
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...
Music can elevate our vibration very quickly and transport us beyond time and space. At our new sister-school Nalanda in Ubud, Bali, we want to bring more and more spiritual events and spiritual music. Some of the best teachers are coming to us this year. One of...
Audrey Forbes, a Yoga Pranala graduate from the United States, has shared her success story with us. From being passionate about Yoga, she pursued her dream to become a Yoga teacher. Audrey, born and raised in New York, moved to the Seattle area right out...
I come across articles from time-to-time on social media describing the reasons why people stop practicing yoga, or simply criticizing some different aspects of yoga. It seems to me that many yoga practitioners do not have the correct understanding of what yoga truly means. Yoga...
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...
The discipline of yoga is very wide and has a large number of practices but they all have communality. In the end, they all lead back to the source, which is our ultimate teacher. The goal of yoga is union of the individual consciousness with...
Dear Yoga Student, Before you decide how to inspire others through the mastery of yoga at our acclaimed 22-day program let me take you on a wonderful journey of those that have walked the path before you. Remember these new yogis were new just like you, they...
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...
When I review the last 25 years of my life, I mostly remember blissful years. I must admit that until now I have had an amazing life. I have done everything I always wanted to do. Nevertheless, they were episodes, now and then, that were...
Have you received last month a newsletter from Dr Masaru Emoto inviting you to send healing energy to the Fukushima plant, on the 31st of March, at 12:00? Chances are you have as the message was forwarded via Internet throughout the world and touched millions...
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...