“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”  – Adyashanti The path of Yoga is no different, it is believed to be a path by many that

The moment we become open, either in the mind or the heart, the world around us takes on a different form. As I chatted with one of my dear friends recently, we spoke of what it was that we received while being in each other’s presence. There was a force of an open mind meeting the force of an open

The sound of our own voice can be something that we don’t really like the sound of, like when you record it and replay it, the sound that we hear is not the sound we hear from within. Why is it that we don’t like this outer voice? Our relationship with our voice can be insightful when it comes to

Today, I’m calling in Love, for the sake of discovering the Truth within this life and to see clearly where I stand in this world.  As I’m seeing in my experience old fears trying to hold me back, I have been diving deeper, looking into this at a collective level, understanding that we are all feeling similar in some kind

Beginnings and endings are moments that are creating fullness for our experience in life. We are constantly expanding and retracting, learning deeper layers of our own life. The awareness of these moments support us in opening and closing ourselves on and off our yoga matt. Within each and every single moment of life there is the beginning and ending which

“I have a body and I am more than my body. I have emotions and I am more than my emotions. I have a mind and I am more than my mind. I am a center of pure consciousness and energy.”  -Kabbalah  I found this quote to be speaking a lot about what’s present in my life right now. Each

The teaching of Seva has been bittersweet, as my 7 months of practicing in a contained space has now come to an end. Seva is the sanskrit word for selfless service, a practice of not attaching to the results or outcome of actions. There are many ways to try to understand what it means to be in a state of

There is a beautiful metaphor about the mother and child relationship that has been presented to me in many different shapes and forms recently. The mother is the care taker and support system while the child is pure and transparent. The mother is committed to talking care of the baby, supporting the baby in every moment humanly possible. The baby

How can we do inquiries into the Self off the yoga mat? Of course, we may find that the mat is the best place for our personal practice, and we may also begin to notice an overflow of this connection into events in our life. How do we continually do self inquiry while still actively living in the modern world

What does it mean to becoming the witness? Why is it that we, as humans, engage in questioning? I couldn’t possibly answer those questions but I’ll play with them a bit for fun, but first let’s look into the Yogic philosophy of existence… In short, we are all having an individual experience, which is made up from two things referred to