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Yoga has been around for thousands of years, and the most ancient scripts that were found during the Vedic period (1500 BCE) were dedicated to ritualistic practices, meditation, chanting, mythology and the importance of being attuned to nature. It’s only in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, which dates between the 11th and 15th centuries CE that more postures were described as part of the yogic cosmovision for self-expansion and self awareness. And then with Krishnamacharya around th

Every now and then, I sit with myself and ask: Why am I doing this? Does this path have my heart? It’s a question I’ve learned to return to, as we can get so easily distracted and confused by the speed at which the world moves. We’re constantly encouraged to do more, move faster, and accumulate more. So pausing to listen feels essential to me. And every time I ask myself this question in relation to teaching, I arrive at the same answer… YES. Because there is something deeply

Remember who you are I believe that one of the main purposes in Yoga is to remember who we are. To remember our Divine Nature. But what does this actually mean? Is recognizing that: - We are not only our thoughts, roles, or identities - We are not separate from life, others, or experience - There is an underlying awareness, spacious, alive, interconnected, that we are part of (and not apart from) There’s a word for this in the Tantric tradition, which is Samāveśa. And it refe

It is very easy to fall in the trap of overdoing so as to make things happen. I tend to overload myself and so much suffering comes when I attempt to control outcomes, relationships, time. Paradoxically the harder I try, the less it unfolds as I want. My body feels stiff, very heavy and compacted. But when I actively release the grip of control, and I allow the unfolding of life while interfering just enough, things flow and living feels lighter and more connected. My body ex

These past two weeks in class, we have been reflecting on this concept and the potential it has to help us live more fully. Bert Hellinger said that suffering in humanity comes from not accepting life as it is, from wanting things to be different than they are or were. Of course there's nothing wrong with wanting to change or wanting to make things better or different. But what happens when we deny or resist WHAT IS? Something gets stuck and cannot flow. We can't see the vas