The path of Higher Self Yoga encourages us to connect with our Higher Selves for the purpose of enhancing our own self-awareness, promoting peace for all peoples, and creating positive change within our community. In recent years, the waves of crises facing the United States and the world have illuminated systemic injustices and sparked new conversations about how to engage…
The goal of Higher Self Yoga is to reach our highest potential by living a fulfilling, self-aware, purpose-driven life. Unsurprisingly, reaching our highest potential can require making major life changes. Learning new skills, working towards our vocation, and spending more time on meditation and spiritual studies all take a significant investment of time and energy, and you will likely have…
Of all the negative emotions and habits we’ll learn to overcome, it’s hard to think of one more toxic, more volatile, and more capable of causing harm to yourself and others than the emotion of anger.
Listening to your heart’s wisdom is essential to progressing in your spiritual journey. We all know the feeling of having a moment with a friend or family member where we wish we could have had more strength to speak from the heart. When the heart is open, we become capable of the compassion, kindness, openness, and honesty we long to…
There are times when I look at my face in my little Zoom box, and see something I know was not there five years ago! A line, a sag, I look closer, and shake my head, and say, “Well, good thing I am not this body!” And then sometimes, I sing, because that is how the man who taught me…
The coronavirus pandemic continues to illustrate the inherent structural inequalities of our economy. In addition to mass unemployment, the closing of local store-fronts and restaurants threatens the existence of small businesses, and whole industries like travel and hospitality have ground to a halt. Millions of Americans are too financially vulnerable and unstable to participate in the economy that is disproportionately…
These days, it’s nearly impossible to read or watch the news without feeling angry, and for good reason. Economic, social, and racial injustice are running rampant in the world. You would have to have a heart made of stone to not feel your temperature rise when reading about police brutality, wealth disparity, and political oppression. Traditionally, anger is seen as…
If 2020 had a catch-phrase, it could easily be, “in these uncertain times.” While the year has so far been punctuated by a staggering stream of destabilizing events including everything from the Australian Bush Fires to Brexit, to a Global Pandemic and a Rally for Justice in the face of unchecked police brutality, in many ways, these moments are simply…
Times of stress and uncertainty can leave us feeling adrift — lost in a sea of unfamiliar patterns and conflicting emotions. For many of us, disruptions such as this shine a light on how attuned, or unattuned, we are to our interior world. The Coronavirus pandemic certainly qualifies as such a disruption. Many of us are sequestered at home, alone…