You were born wide open to this new world. You came in ready to love and be loved. So why do you get lonely and feel so disconnected all the time? My guess is you’re believing the greatest myth ever told….

To me, this is Ashaya Yoga®. Welcoming, Loving, Playful, Empowering and Honest.

If you’ve ever tried to start a healthy habit or practice, you know it takes a little work. They don’t just start and get running smoothly without your intention and attention.

It’s New Year’s time. The holidays are winding down and we’re turning our attention towards becoming the person we always thought we could be.

It was one of those magical classes where all the students seemed to breathe as one and I was simply following in the wake of Shakti as she led us where to go next.  

 The universe doesn't make mistakes and so all of your idiosynchrosies, "imperfections", lumps, bumps, scars, and grooves are exactly as they are meant to be.  They make you who you are, and you are Well Made. 

Every day you get to choose the people in your company.  Every day you have the opportunity to become Great company yourself.

As a householder/practitioner the goal is not to try to escape life, or to discipline life in anyway.  The goal instead is to meet Life on Life's terms

An awakened heart is one that lives and breathes.  To awaken your heart means that you can connect with a stream of wisdom that resides inside of you.

Naomi shares what her parents taught her about self-care that helps her keep with it as a mama to two young children.

 As Ashaya Yoga® founder, Todd Norian, often says, “It’s not how far you go, but how you go far” that matters here.

Yoga is a place to experiment, to test, and to let yourself get messy, knowing that it is giving you feedback about what works and what doesn't.  Feedback that you can build your LIFE on if you really listen. 

It is like being a very small boat out on a wide deep ocean.  Like I am this tiny thing trying to navigate the vastness of the ocean of love and healing that I do know is available and is real and is just beneath me, waiting, waiting.  It keeps trying to pierce the shell around my heart.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the craft of teaching yoga.  Not the skills or knowledge I'm hoping to impart to the students, but the craft of how I'm sharing what I know.  The following thoughts came to me and it is something I'd like to fully live into:

I spent the last week in New England as an apprentice in the 200-hr Ashaya Yoga Teacher Training run by my longtime teacher, Todd Norian. I want to end at that sentence because it made my heart, mind, body and spirit so incredibly happy and peaceful to be there, that's all I really have to say.

Only, actually there is more.