Today I launched my Love Your Core yoga series. The month-long course includes 3 weekly practices, a 30-minute yoga practice, a 10-minute sculpt workout, and a 5-minute breathing practice. I priced the course very affordably and made discounts available to Be You Yoga Hub members and anyone with financial need. I was so pleased with the response and seeing so many folks join the first livestream!
Read MoreHow many times can I say I’ve sat with tears in my eyes? Is every time I write too many? Such is the life of a highly sensitive person. I tried desperately for years to stop the tears. Lately I’ve stopped caring about the tears. They come. I let them.
In just the last 24 hours alone I cried at least a handful of times.
Read MoreWithin the past two years notable voices in the yoga world have risen to highlight and put a call to action to address cultural appropriation, spiritual bypassing, and the numerous communities of people who were left behind in the lululemon model of western yoga.
Aside from having long ago sworn off lululemon, from street view I’m very much the epitome of the white yoga girl image challenged an an imposter.
Imposter syndrome is a construct of a white male dominated society. It says you aren’t good enough because you aren’t us. It says you are a fraud. It says no matter how hard you try you will not succeed.
Yikes. The moment spoke directly to my insecure self’s reminder that I was indeed the imposter I feared. How could I possibly represent yoga, a tradition and wisdom from India. I was not that. I wanted to crawl into a shame hole, shed my yoga self, and emerge as something different.
But what? And why?
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