The yoga world still seems to be buzzing with excitement as, according to a report in the Huffington Post May 8th 2013, the number of people practicing yoga is on the increase. A whopping 30% in the past 4 years, by all accounts, according to a survey by the ‘Yoga Journal’ magazine. This means that the number of Americans practicing is somewhere in the order of 20 million! I suspect that it is much higher than this however, since many seniors practicing would probably not hav

​ Earlier this year, beloved teacher Goswami Kriyananda left his physical body. No longer are there opportunities to sit at his feet and have a dialogue about the science of yoga and mysticism, face-to-face. For decades, he has taught what he had embodied by his guru Sri Shelly Trimmer at his tiny ashram in Pennsylvania. Shelly never wrote a book but shared what he had learned with Kriyananda from his guru Yogananda in the oral tradition. Kriyananda used to joke about leavin

​​ Teaching prenatal yoga and being a mother can absolutely improve our spiritual progress if we use the experience as a playground for the soul. My wise paramguru Goswami Kriyananda thought that motherhood and parenting in general is a super way of maturing, if we have a series of techniques to help us along the way. Yoga is more than anyhting a living oral tradition that is about lifestyle and should not be rigid. At its core as many yogis know are the yamas and niyamas, wh

For the experienced yoga teacher. To have a student with some bias is an absolute delight. It means that we can bring forth all of our invested study and understanding of how to help a specific population to help an individual. For the prenatal yoga student.... well they may be completely unaware of what that means, and the study hours, money and practice involved. After investing way more than a decade in formal study, not only of asana but esoteric yoga, I recognize that ma

Dear Hearts, Now is officially the day after the Valentine's, and the physical heart as well as it's mind can get back to 'normal'. Don't get me wrong, I loved the flowers, the chocolates, the CD.......but not the anticipation of receiving something,anything that preceded those blessings. I remember as a school girl in England counting how many valentine's I got, and then comparing that with how many the other girls got. It seems such a shallow waste of time and energy. My