The Ruby Inside

The Ruby Inside

When the unlimited source contracts into the form of an individual, into each of us, we as individuals experience ourselves as incomplete or imperfect, and therefore we yearn for whatever we think we need for completion. Rāga and is said to be the non-specific sense...
Spaciousness of Being

Spaciousness of Being

From the Kashmir Shaivite philosophy of yoga we are each seen as being unique expressions of the one, the divine, the source. As such we, as individuals, experience cloakings that have us feel limited and the tradition outlines 5 ways in which we experience limitation...
Expanding our sense of time

Expanding our sense of time

Gurupurnima happens every year on the full moon in July and is and a time to honour and celebrate the guru principle. The guru principle is anything that connects us with an experience of that which is bigger than our limited sense of ourselves. The word guru  is...
A Pause

A Pause

As the year comes to an end at the studio, things wrap up, schools break for the holidays the pace picks up and there is a lot of stress in the air. Taking the time to pause is invaluable. The Kanchukas in yoga philosophy are the cloaks obscuring the truth of who we...