Do you want to Feel Better In and About your Body?

What is your relationship to your physical body? Parts you hate, parts you like? Parts you love? What prevents you from loving it all and continuing to embrace all aspects of it? Reflecting upon my own history of not embracing my body, through injury / trauma, and the...
Is Yoga ‘Therapy’?   If so, how? How not?

Is Yoga ‘Therapy’? If so, how? How not?

Therapy means ‘self-care’! So at the most fundamental level, all yoga is self-care. And yoga, when practiced as a lifestyle, nourishes your greatest potential for optimal health and well-being. However, yoga, as practiced in mainstream America, is not a panacea for...
The Chakra System:  Yoga to Promote Subtle Awareness

The Chakra System: Yoga to Promote Subtle Awareness

In various circumstances, you have surely felt the ‘pang’ in the heart, an ‘unease’ in the gut, the legs go weak or an instantaneous vision of what will come into manifestation.  These are all examples of subtle energy experiences. According to Yoga Theory, humans...
Astrology and Yoga?       There’s a Connection?  – part 2

Astrology and Yoga? There’s a Connection? – part 2

     Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about one’s character and potential (natal or birth chart), human affairs (personal and interpersonal) and terrestrial events. In the last...
Yoga and Astrology????

Yoga and Astrology????

     What?      There’s a Connection? In 2014, I attended a retreat with David Frawley, a renowned Vedic scholar and yoga practitioner. I was amazed to discover that yoga and astrology are intimately linked, historically and into the present time. Relationships...
Why Attend a Yoga Retreat – part 2

Why Attend a Yoga Retreat – part 2

Why Attend a Yoga Retreat? – Part 2 Recently I summarized a few important reasons to go on retreat for a week, from why a week length of time is essential, to unplugging from stuck patterns and how the various types of yoga practices create internal awareness...