We don’t have to wait until the global pandemic and economic crisis ends in order to relax. In fact, attending to the natural cycles of activation and de-act...

Last week, as I was waiting for my mother-in-law to die of COVID-19, watching the mounting death toll around the world, and holding space for others to exper...

The Vedas tell us that the Soul is born with four desires – Dharma (purpose), Artha (the means to fulfill our purpose), Kama (the desire for pleasure and enj...

Tantra is as misunderstood in the West, where it’s become synonymous with sexual rituals, as in the East, where it’s considered magic alchemy. But Tantra is ...

The systematic practice of raja yoga, the “royal” path, consists of three components: tapas (austerity, or going against the grain of our conditioning), svad...

Link to course on OMstars, the yoga network. Trauma field luminaries such as Peter Levine, PhD and Bessel van der Kolk, MD, among others, concur that trauma ...

Once we engage on a spiritual path, and connect with the lofty ideal of enlightenment, it is easy to interpret our human emotions as representative of our low...

In the last decade, the medical community has begun incorporating trauma-informed medical care by administering something called the ACE test. ACE stands for...

What is Stress? Stress is primarily a physical response, although most of our stress today comes from stressful mental states (imagined vs. real threats) tha...

The Vedas tell us that the Soul is born with four desires – Dharma (purpose), Artha (the means to fulfill our purpose), Kama (the desire for pleasure and enj...

Have you ever wondered why most New Year's resolutions go by the wayside before January is over? Most of us are unaware of the resistance we face when we att...

Research evidence suggests that interoception, the internal perception of bodily states, is linked positively to physical and mental health. Low interoceptio...

I grew up thinking. I was going to say, I grew up thinking that thinking was my identity, but I may as well stop at "I grew up thinking..." I certainly remem...

Even as large portions of the world’s population are starving, people in wealthy industrialized nations are either eating to excess or furiously dieting to e...

Interoception is the perception of body sensations as they relate to physical or emotional cues that inform and form our internal sense of self. Dissociation...

EMBODY. If the warfare of unmet needs, disowned emotions and disenfranchisement from cultural norms is waged in the body, and if low interoception is associa...