A Chant For Peace

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may my thoughts, words and actions contribute in some way to that happiness and freedom for all.

Private Yoga Classes

Yoga and Meditation Retreats

PHILOSOPHY

“On this path no effort is ever wasted, no gain is ever reversed;
even a little of this practice will shelter you from great sorrow.”

Bhagavad Gita, 2.40

UPCOMING RETREAT

New Year Retreat Topanga Canyon

January 7- 9, 2022
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RE-EMERGE. RE-CONNECT.
REMEMBER. RECEIVE.

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This room, # 108, is my actual office at USC. I ne

This room, # 108, is my actual office at USC. I nearly dropped when I saw it.

Spiritual traditions say there are signs everywhere. The more we pay attention, the more we see. The deeper our practice, the wider our vision. Sometimes the signs confirm - like a small cairn tower of pebbles marking the way - that we are on the right path, even when we think we’re lost.

This semester a student asked “Why did you have to leave your job in fashion to do this?”
‘Because it called me,’ didn’t seem enough of a reason. Because it was my own tiny rebellion to disrupt a culture of harm and bend an impossible arc towards what matters most. Foolish perhaps.

It’s said 108 is a sacred number. It’s the number of beads on a rosary or a prayer mala, the number of steps on a Buddhist temple, there are 108 postures in Tai Chi. In the Bible the words “Truth” and “to forgive” are used 108 times. Stonehenge is 108 feet in diameter. In Islam the number 108 refers to God. The distance between The Earth and The Sun is 108 times the diameter of The Sun. The distance between The Earth and The Moon is 108 times the diameter of The Moon. The diameter of The Sun is 108 times the diameter of The Earth.

I know they are shooting our children and ripping away our rights. And I also know there is still hope. My students at USC reveal that every day they show up. This is the last week of our semester; back in person after 18 months of trauma. They tell me:

“My experiences in this class have allowed me to realize that life is NOT inherently bad, and bad experiences are not us failing at getting through the system, they are an opportunity to learn more about ourselves and how strong, resilient, and impressive we are as people.”

Do the impossible. Plant seeds for trees we will never see. They will be magnificent.

#keepgoing
#uscyoga #uscmeditation #dontstopbelieving

It’s the thing that changed the course of my lif

It’s the thing that changed the course of my life. The trip where I discovered who I was, what mattered most, how I wanted to live, and work.

Yoga Teacher Training is when I really fell in love - with the practice, the people and myself.

It’s a whole journey. A way of making meaningful change. Towards the greatest good. For you. For your people. The planet.

And THIS 200 Hr training with THESE BRILLIANT TEACHERS is the highest quality and caliber around. Truly.

I am honored to join @kulayogaproject again for their immersive #200hrytt along with @schuylergrantyoga @mattphippen @nikkivilella @ketchumyoga @nikki_costello
@freetoorising @biggerthankevin @naidaspy @nezam_ardalan @megan.mook

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE is almost here. This 10 Week Program starts Feb 2022💥

It’s a hybrid of on-line (weekdays) and in person (weekends) in LA or NY - plus an all remote option from the comfort of your own home.

Scholarships are available. All details, dates, prices & info are available @kulayogaproject

Take this epic road trip on the journey of life - to make friends, find yourself and grow bigger in the most amazing ways. Unlike any other adventure out there. It’s the way home.

#yogateachertraining #love

New Year Retreat: Topanga Yoga✨Meditation✨Kar

New Year Retreat: Topanga
Yoga✨Meditation✨Karaoke
January 7-9, 2022

🧡 After way too long, the time feels right to re-emerge, reconnect, listen deeply, laugh heartily and celebrate life.

🧡 Come sing your song on the mountain top. Come ground, uplift and center yourself. A New Year weekend set to reflect on health, wellness and whatever the heart loves most. Together we’ll practice gaining greater clarity and self-compassion. In community, we’ll create space for our soul-centered intentions to lead us into the new year ahead.

🧡 Our destination is a Spanish-style 1920’s private estate, perched atop 10 acres of sacred land, with breathtaking views. Ample opportunities between sessions to dip into the hot tub, sweat in the cedar sauna, swim in the lap pool or dunk in the cold plunge. A dedicated chef will create delicious, fresh, vegetarian meals each day.

🧡 I so hope you’ll join us for an intimate and special retreat (my first in over 2 years!) Space is limited. But our small group is infinite - with endless energy to rekindle hope, replenish vital resources and re-invigorate happiness.
Especially because, we can.

❤️💜💗

DM me your email address to receive all the details.

We 3 been together for more than a decade. ✨ The

We 3 been together for more than a decade. ✨
They’ve always been teachers who inspired me. People who sparked joy and spread smiles. Everywhere. We grew up together in a magic box of a studio #InYoga 🧡 and after way too long, we’re finally home, teaching under the same roof again. Thank you @centerforyogala ❣️ for this most excellent & happy reunion.

#backtogether #yogafriends #sangha #reunited

Come feel the love
Tuesdays & Thursdays @10:30am with me
or catch a class with amazing
@joekarayoga or magnificent @yogigracie almost every other day of the week

🧘🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♂️🙏🏽

Buddha’s bff, Ananda, said: “It seems to me, friendship is about 50% of the spiritual path.”
“No Ananda,” said Buddha. “Friendship is the entire spiritual path. 100%” 💥💥💥

#circleyourself #goodpeople #goodfriends #goodteachers #goodyoga #goodtimes

PS old school shout out to @juliebuckner for originally putting these pieces together
💛💛💛 #gratitude

Friends - for months I’ve been moving through th

Friends - for months I’ve been moving through the living and the dying. All roads led to love.

Thru 10,000 joys and sorrows, practice always brings me home.

Feeling out a NEW YEAR RETREAT in Topanga Canyon with you. To re-emerge with connection and remember what matters most.

Jan 7 -9, 2022. Yoga and meditation. Hot tub. Hikes. Happiness. In the circle. Together again.

DM me if you’re in.

It’s not official. Yet. but we just might make this thing happen. 🌄🌳🧡

Never underestimate the power of love. Gandhi call

Never underestimate the power of love. Gandhi called this deep care for others “the greatest and most activist force in the world. A force more positive than electricity, more powerful than ether.”

#voteNo #votetomorrow #womensrights #humanrights #protectourplanet #loveeachother #dotherightthing #showup #care #yogainaction #weareeachotherskeepers

11th grade. Licensed to drive. First job @santamo

11th grade. Licensed to drive. First job @santamonicaproper
#justgettingstarted #iloveyou

Please Join Me Tomorrow 1pm Opening Day Initiation

Please Join Me Tomorrow 1pm
Opening Day Initiation !!!

It’s impossible to express what this means to me.
How much this means to me.
How grateful and honored I am.

Please come to support this real deal community based studio - or just come to reconnect in real life again. 🧡

Sign up on the @centerforyogala app for this FREEYoga love fest or any of the other awesome classes throughout the day.

Let’s make the magic happen again

✨ ✨ ✨

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

#praying #maryoliver #yogalove #moving #breathing #being #listeningtogether

USC Mindfulness & Yoga. Day 1. Forget About Enlig

USC Mindfulness & Yoga. Day 1.
Forget About Enlightenment

Sit down wherever you are
And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, right now,
Not who you would like to be,
Not the saint you are striving to become,
But the being right here before you, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You are already more and less
Than whatever you can know.
Breathe out,
Touch in,
Let go.

✨

#backtoschool #rememberwhoyoureallyare
#JohnWelwoodpoetry #uscyoga #uscmindfulness #youalreadyare

I landed there when I first moved to LA in 1999. L

I landed there when I first moved to LA in 1999. Like a grand temple, you could feel the thousands of people, practices, and prayers laid bare on its floors. It was a sacred, magical, space, soaked in lineage and love. When it’s doors closed “permanently” in the pandemic— @centerforyogala the oldest studio in LA, an epi-center of soul and sweat in the city —a piece of my heart shattered.

Then just as magically, like we learn in this tradition, between the gapping cracks, was the exact place where shimmers of light shine through. Gratefully. So it is.

Brought back to life by connected community/sangha, and helmed my the most brilliant, beautiful, and kindest teacher I have ever known, @lisa.walford it is my huge and genuine honor to join the circle of esteemed and magnificent faculty and dear friends @joekarayoga @andreamarcum @dervkellyla @carolinagoldbergyoga @ashleyrideaux @yogigracie @becks_yoga_x @jeanneheilemanyoga @daniibarrayoga @cosmicvitch

As the curtains part and we start to step out onto open stage of a new world, still a little broken but beaming with hope, we’ll begin to co-create a new center of inspiration for who and what we can all be now.

I hope you’ll join me on OpeningDay, Tuesday 8/24 for a complete come together with classes and celebrations.

Have confidence in your intuitive intelligence, faith that your cellular memory knows the way, and let the deep water currents carry you home. #BeginAgain

#liveyoga #layogalove #communityclasses #soulsessions #YogaIsBack #reallifeyoga #iloveyogapeople

My work is loving the world. Are my boots old? Is

My work is loving the world.

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still half-perfect?

Let me keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,

which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.

Which is mostly rejoicing, since all the ingredients are here,

which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy

telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.

#maryoliver #odetosummer #love #liveforever

Tomorrow let’s release the cocoon and return to

Tomorrow let’s release the cocoon and return to the community. My first public class in 19 months. Masks on, mental noise off. #SoulSessions #ComposeYourself #ComeTogether

Drop into the body and join us
to breath beneath the waves
This, and every, Sunday
@equinox Westwood 10am
✨✨✨

I know you never intended to be in this world
But you’re in it all the same.

so why not get started immediately.

I mean, belonging to it.

There is so much to admire, and to weep over.

And to write music or poems about.

Bless the feet that take you to and fro.
Bless the eyes and the listening ears.
Bless the tongue, and the marvel of taste.
Bless touching.

#maryoliver #yogalove #seeyoutomorrowonthemat

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