Top 5 Reasons People Haven’t Tried Yoga… Yet

As a yoga teacher I know I have a bit of a bias when I say that every one should try yoga. While celebrities have helped to make yoga fashionable, most people know at least one person who swears by it. From lean muscles to peace of mind, yoga offers people a way to be [...]

Teacher Training: From A Trainers Perspective

I first fell in love with yoga 14 years ago after I walked out of my first yoga class blissed-out and completely at peace. The next time I fell in love with yoga was during savasana in the first class I taught. After guiding the students to relax, I took my first deep breath of [...]

Mantra- Asatoma Invocation

Om Asatomaa sad gamaya
Tamaso maa jyotir gamaya
Mrityormaa amritaam gamaya
Om shanti shanti shantihi
Lead me from the unreal to the real
Lead me from darkness to light
Lead me from death to immortality
Om peace, peace, peace

Empowering Yourself Through Yoga

“Yoga is existential, experimental, experiential. No belief required, no faith is needed- only the courage to experience, to experiment, to take the jump into the unknown. Patanjali does not say, “Believe and then you will experience.” He says, “Experience and then you will believe.” And he has made a structure how to proceed step by [...]

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle

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I exist as I am, that is enough.
If no other in the world be aware, I sit content
And if each and all be aware, I sit content
One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million [...]

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“Here in this body are the sacred rivers. Here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. You will not encounter another temple as beautiful as your own body.” -Sahara Bushman

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“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of fear of the unknown. They prefer suffering that is familiar.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Relationships are the real test of whether we actually understand ourselves better.” -T.K.V. Desikachar

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“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness. The reason you are so exhausted is that much of what you are doing you have no affection for. You’re doing it because you have an abstract idea that this is what you ’should’ be doing.” -David Whyte

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