Forgiveness of self and others will set you free.

Sometimes, I let my pain make my decisions for me. This time, I’m going to make a paradigm shift and be inspired by friends and neighbors.

To Uplift; to lift up; raise; elevate; to improve socially, morally, culturally; to exalt emotionally or spiritually.

Kindness is responsible for releasing serotonin in the brain of the giver, receiver and of those people watching the Act of Kindness.

Draw it in. The darkness, the beauty, the glory, the fear, the loudness, the subtleties, the joys, the depths, the nothing-ness...

Am I focusing on what I want it to look like? No, not typically. Normally, I am focused on all the ways in which I wish it were different. And so, what do you suppose this creates? It creates more of what I do not want.

Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world.

I see people in my classes who are hell bent on achieving a certain a pose, a certain bind, a certain level — some achievement that will allow them to prove to themselves or someone else that they are “enough”.

Whether you are dealing with an animal, a plant or a person (large or small), life is energy and energy should be revered and appreciated – not controlled, or changed, or morphed into something else but rather, loved and appreciated for exactly the way it is.

I hate it — the sound of her pain. I can feel it. Her shrieks permeate my skin and stab my very soul...

I did something random and weird today. I did something I never thought, in a million years, that I would do....

You are destined for greatness, prodigiousness, trajectory without bounds. When you smile, the room smiles. When you cry, we buckle. Own it. Lean into it. Step into it.

There is little accountability in life if there if someone else willing to own your pain. It makes you weak to the ways of the world. It prevents you from recognizing the consequences of your actions.

We humans, as a species, are not meant to carry tragedy for long. We're just not built to haul around baggage.

While it may not fit the stereotype of the yoga teacher, I take the "feeling" piece a bit deeper, by eating to live, rather than living to eat.

"Our feelings about ourselves are actually the most important barometer for determining the condition of our lives."

"It is up to our generation to dismantle the paradigm of economics that is based on dynamics that are no longer a part of human culture. We can create careers that yield righteous abundance while simultaneously generating life rather than taking from it."