Ayurveda Yoga Academy

Several times today, there was a small fly near food I planned to eat, a drink, or a personal item. I heard words of hate toward the little insect in my head. Then another thought arose. It is just one part of existence. What humans have called, in English, a fruit fly. I am the one judging it, naming it a fly, and putting a negative feeling onto it. It just is. Like the air around me—I don’t name it or judge it. This made me laugh. How true. Everything is simply existing whe

I arrived in Korea in 2008 to teach English for a year through the EPIK program. Little did I know that, in less than a month, I would discover Ayurveda Yoga Academy and embark on a healing journey through yoga and various therapies that would transform my life, inside and out, for almost two decades. When I landed in Seoul in August 2008, everything felt lushly green, humid, and buzzing with life. I carried with me 23 years of personal experiences, my family’s culture, Ameri

There is no success and no failure. These concepts of success and failure are based on the idea that some result is good, and another...

Beautiful words about tangerines in winter, and being conscious

How are you going to live? I live in a place where I am the happiest. But it hasn't always been this way, even here. From the moment I...

Inner joy comes up naturally as we heal, then there's the chance to share the seeds and keep flowering

Spring arrives. Life feels beautiful and new! There is a saying that people don't change. Just look around you, how can there not but be...

Everything in life is relationship. There are the relationships with our family and workplace, and there are the relationships we have...

"Interlace your hands in front of your chest and reach your palms up towards the sky." ​ Almost every class begins with this instruction....