I am glad I was born in the USA, a white guy. I dodged the oppressors and fight to not become one myself. I am very grateful that our states and cities have not seen war, it seems there is so much more happening here than we know or understand. One thing for certain the war machine doesn’t discriminate, fleeing war is always the best choice. Where would you go if there was a war? What would you take? Why? This causes me to pause and think about my life, how it is very cushy in comparison to many. I hope that it stays that way. Life today is easier than its ever been and it continues to get eas ..read more

YTT Final Paper  When tasked with writing this paper, I pushed back and resisted the best I could for the daunting connotation I had attached to it. Taking a step back, however, and taking a moment to realize how far I have come and what walls I have knocked down to get here, I finally understand the purpose is not to stress me out nor scare me into a self-deprecating state of mind. Instead, the purpose in this final assignment is to re-visit the key elements I have learned and embodied throughout my Yoga Teacher Training journey. Presented within this essay is my perception of the three ..read more

For more than 20 years I have been working my own acceptance of life as it happens. Can you believe that?  Twenty years? One could say I should have mastered that feat by now.  Perhaps I am one of the few, unique in my own neurosis that struggles trying to arrange all of the little pieces of theuniverse in a particular order that suits me.  Mind you this order has to be precise and specific to my liking if one little piece is out of place watch out. Can you identify with this idea?  How do you respond to the world when you are threatened or percieve a threat to your persona ..read more

Where have I been?  With the studio opening and the juggling of a full time job, teacher schedules and community building I have neglected to write the words of wisdom that comes from my inner core.  Last weekend I attended the Baptiste Art of Assisting facilitated by Paige Elenson of the Africa Yoga Project and Kiersten Mooney of Bala Vinyasa located in South Florida.  Going to the training my intention was to check the box of assisting, I had been assisting in the classes I teach for a couple of years; what I received was so much more.  With all Baptiste training's we sta ..read more

Today is a day when we let go of all of the past and are open to the possibility of the future in the NOW ..read more

a power yoga class via audio ..read more

IMAGINE MONDAY the day after Easter they lift the quarantine, this all comes back to a new way of living. The People of the World all get along; Iran, Russia, Syria, Yemen and all of the Middle East know peace. In Latin America the drug trade has stopped as throughout the USA people are turning back to nature for healing, the Land Barons and Oligarchs of the world are being identified and the influence they peddle with their MONEY is being stopped by the ones WE Elected to protect our constitutional rights. In Asia peace flows through North Korea, Japan and China all lay down their swords. Peo ..read more

Why is it that at times I am so insecure? I crave to be liked or at best loved. From the deepest part of my heart I want to be accepted, in my desire for acceptance I find myself creating a story about a situation that is not actually true, misperception. Then its like all of my child hood trauma bubbles to the surface and I act from that damaged place, I become the chameleon, changing my camouflage to hide from the truth and to come out of hiding I have to heal the damaged parts and be open to exposing my rawness and being vulnerable to the NOW. It all comes back to the NOW. Through meditati ..read more

Today I am thinking about mental illness, mainly my own inner instabilities. When I look at my instabilities it revolves around anger and through my anger the reactionary words come out that cause injury or actions that are injurious to others causing them to feel hurt; when I drill down into the root of what may be bringing this on, ultimately it is because the world is not going as I desire it to be I am attached to an expectation of an outcome. I am not a psychologist or a psychiatrist, however; I have spent a great deal of time exploring the concept of mental illness, particularly. In the ..read more

When you trust mankind to be kind will they?  I take for granted that people will be kind, I take for granted people won’t steal, I am naïve. So I ask this question; “will a stranger not break into your car and steal your belongings?”  If they do how will you respond?  A few weeks ago I went to the beach, put on my wetsuit, stashed my key in my gas tank cover… only to come out and it not there?  Picture this, wetsuit, sunglasses (thank god) towel and nothing else!  Fortunately I put on sunscreen.   As I walked up and down the beach trying to figure out a plan ..read more