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  • You did not create yourself

    I have a few quotes that help keep my mind in line but this one, “you did not create yourself” stands as number one. Living in America has given a lot of people a certain level of self confidence, along with let’s manifest everything with our vision boards, and learn how to create our own Read more

  • Mind your mind

    We live in a time watching wisdom get pushed aside for emotional drama. Everyone feels up in arms about how things are going to hell in a hand basket. These are the worst of times… Until the next round… Realizing that we move through cycles here on big Planet Earth, could help everyone calm down. Read more

  • Speak for yourself

    As a woman of a certain age, we were taught to acquiesce to our fathers, husbands, preacher, teacher, you name it. Our voice was of no concern. We were meant to be agreeable, to “get along” with family and others. While there are still many women who follow this dictate there are also many who Read more

  • Breath of Fire on MAX

    After my own experience of being nearly wrapped up in a yoga cult, I am watching this documentary and it is bringing it all up again. Kundalini is where my spiritual yogic journey began. Guru Jagat or Katie, the subject of the film is another notch on the Yogi Bhajan cult belt. Though she never Read more

  • OOPs…I did it again

    Or is it ugg…anyway, I let an entire year go by without saying a word. No wait, I said many words…I only wrote in my journal and those words were the sound of screaming, words and sentences paragraphs and pages of screaming. Venting has its place but I feel its time to write again, but Read more

  • The world has changed

    I was just in NYC briefly for the weekend. I thought to travel the first weekend in December to get a taste of the city post covid. It’s a city I have loved long before I was really able to know it, like a native. And now I have been traveling back and forth for Read more

  • Staying sane

    There is so much uncertainty in our world right now that trying to keep your head straight gets to being a job. You can’t take for granted that what you once “knew to be true” to be true, it just isn’t anymore. Believing the words of men, a hazard, and yet the higher plane isn’t Read more

  • Cult loyalty

    What a world we live in. After all these years and millennia, humans have not taken the idea of evolving seriously at all. It’s a free for all, this place. Filled with take what you want stepping over whom ever you need to, want more land take that too. We are a waring culture, a Read more

  • The in-between

    I became fixated by the notions of cults when Yogi Bhajan first started getting negative press. A very naive response from me was that it couldn’t be true. He himself had taught us not to mess with your students. All through teacher training was this notion that being a kundalini teacher was a spiritual calling Read more

  • Recognizing cult behavior might be a good idea.

    When I started my path to yoga I was living in the woods of Northern Minnesota living the life of poverty. It was a difficult time filled with horrors of child custody issues, custody payments and a husband that found working at a job oh so hard…and me, I had an art degree so yeah Read more