The following comes from a conversation with a friend about place and alignment. I keep returning to emotions. We talk about choice, manifestation and intention, but rarely about sensation as a way to determine place. For many, it’s the reason to travel or move. See somewhere new. Break old patterns and habits. Experience that belonging,…
Attention Over Anticipation Call it gratitude or acceptance. But the idea is noticing what exists rather than what could. I realize life offers infinite value, not always associated with joy. More is not always more. In Everywhere and Nowhere, I explain home as internal, carried, not located. The following continues that conversation. Because after accepting…
For most of my professional life, service meant welcoming people into restaurants, hotels, kitchens, and shared experiences. It meant preparing food with care, anticipating guests’ needs, supporting teams behind the scenes, and creating moments people would remember long after they left the table. After more than two decades working internationally across hospitality, restaurants, hotels, food…
After the passing of International Yoga Day in June, it is a chance to reflect on how far the practice of yoga has evolved, and one of the biggest changes has been where we choose to go deeper. Over the recent years, yoga has gradually moved from something we practice in studios nearby or at…
Traveling and the Ambiguity of “Home” So I guess this is life. A constant stream of people and places, entered and exited. But maybe it’s not so much about who as what they leave behind. What they reflect or expose about us. The wounds we’ve neglected to properly heal that keep opening. A void we…
Imsouane, Morocco “Don’t overthink it. Don’t wait for the perfect timing or match. Those things don’t really exist…Be open. To give as much as to receive. Begin anyway.” I recently completed my second YTT in the little Brazilian town I call home. Training for me is reset. I need challenge and value dedicated time with…
Alignment, intention and doing the (inner) work trade first “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – C.G. Jung So much of life is cyclical and repetitive. Art is stolen, thoughts are borrowed and behavior is influenced. We move through the same patterns wearing different…
Infinite Learning, Divine Playfulness and Yoga as a Tool I craved meaning, so I chased understanding. I wanted purpose and demanded explanations. I believed success was external until I discovered self-knowledge. Depth built slowly through experience. A willingness to remain in constant evolution. Our time here is equally too short and too long to live…
And Why We Mistake Change for Loss Imagine how frustrating it would be to try to hold air or running water; compositions not designed for containment. Humans are no different. We say we’re afraid of change. But maybe we’re afraid of loss; of what happens when the things we rely on disappear, or being told…
Growth, Community, and the Practice of Staying Open The end of a year has a particular weight that (seemingly) immediately dissipates overnight as the calendar turns. Reflection and remembrances arrive welcomed or intrusive. For yoga teachers, this moment often surfaces familiar questions that shape new intentions: Am I still growing? Am I still connected? Am…
