"Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, Lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times. Come, come yet again."
~ Rumi

Welcome!

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Dear friends and fellow yoga students, Welcome to my website and thank you for coming. This is clearly a powerful time of change in the world and in our lives respectively. It seems that we have been building towards this coming climax for many years, and now the times of deep transformation are unfolding before our eyes. I feel we are well placed and prepared for this change through the practices of yoga, contemplation and self inquiry. Clearly, we have developed a sense of ease being in our bodies, and a flexibility of mind and spirit through the practices of meditation, pranayama and asana. It's seems apparent that our practices will continue to ground us and guide us safely through this time of radical collapse and change. We take refuge in our practices, as a way of finding our center in the midst of the storm. The practices of dharina and dhrushti feel very important now as we focus our awareness and help to create the most beneficial outcome of this change. I feel grateful to be leading and coordinating many retreats as this is a super healthy way of going on vacation and giving ourselves a deep rest and a reprieve from the stress of the many changes going on around us.

Most of all, I thank you for your spiritual practices of yoga, meditation, conscious breathing, chanting, journal writing, and therapy, and all the things we do to own our shadow issues and free ourselves, and to integrate our identity with Supreme Consciousness.

My support and many blessings to you,

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