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 a gap between the past and future. There is a gap between yesterday and tomorrow. There is a gap between breaths. That gap is...