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...
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Happy International Yoga Day! We are celebrating the day by diving deeper into the essence of Yoga Yajnavalkya. Yājñavalkya 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...
Within the midst of the slowdown, I find myself having time and space daily to listen, observe, reflect, try to learn and understand what we as a global community are currently experiencing. One of the things that I have observed during our Covid-19 “retreat” was an...
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...
WHAT IS THE CORONAVIRUS REALLY TEACHING US? Many of you may be feeling overwhelmed due to the rapid unfolding of the past few weeks. We've gone from perceived-to-be social freedom to restriction and lockdown and the ripple effect continues to expand across all areas of life. Retreat...
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...
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...
Greetings from India! This is the time of the year when I go to India and resource myself and take my exploration of yoga a little deeper. There is a vast ocean of yogic knowledge that is inexhaustible and available to us and I love...
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...
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...
Dear all, Embracing a yogic lifestyle and a meditation practice doesn’t mean that your will be happy ever after… Sadly there are some modern yogis and seekers who cling to their practice to provide them with a false sense of security, a guarantee that they will...
“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...