Private Lessons

“Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience.  We don’t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind and find something better.”

“Whatever your practice is, what makes the activity yoga is your intention.”

“Yoga asks you to make peace with the deepest, most terrifying parts of yourself and then make that same peace with the external world.”

“Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.”

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

“When you stop and really look, you see that you are supported continuously in countless ways.  This is the highest wisdom of yoga, the truth of interbeing, of no separation.”

“The key is to not resist or rebel against emotions or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks; but to accept them directly, as they are.”

“It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.”

“Yoga will never ask more of you than you have the possibility of becoming.”

“Yoga can give us the strength and insight we need to navigate the most radical forms of change.”