The Cultural Importance of the Season of Thanks; Project Peace, Harmony and Coexistence Where the mind goes is where energy goes and where energy goes there is growth, expansion and proliferation. The more we center our thinking around what we appreciate and ardently seek to  completely love our lives and the whole of the human experience, we will find that …

Choices and Change: Helpful vs. Pleasant-Padma Peace“When you make a choice, you change the future.”Deepak ChopraLife is a series of choices and each choice we make determines the quality of our life.  This includes the choice not to decide as well as living in vacillation and indecisiveness.  Are we thriving and living in passion or are we distressed and pulled …

Embracing Change for Deliberate Transition-Padma Peace Life is either a daring and great adventure or nothing. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. Helen KellerOne thing for certain is CHANGE, everything changes. …

Who IS the Yoga Teacher Anyway? I have been teaching yoga for a long time and practicing with a teacher even longer. I am the next generation of wildly experienced yoga teachers, fully embodying all aspects of yogini, householder, avid student, entrepreneur, community leader, teacher and lover of of life!  I find myself, as I greet many new-comers to yoga joyfully anticipating …

Mom IS Always Right! A Tribute to the Beloved Mother.From this day forward, my Mom’s birthday will always be the kick off to her legacy, my eldest granddaughter, Skylor Hoyler’s birth week! Today I sadly AND joyfully celebrate the life of a great woman. Lessons from Mother (Mom really is always right) Barbara Sue “Budgie” My Mother My Mom was …

“A human being is an island of excellence. We are born to excel”.-Pandit Rajamni Tigunait Are you a being of excellence? Do you live your life as though you were born to excel? What is the hidden driver of excellence and how do you learn to live as an island of excellence? What is the purpose of excellence? We live …

Dissolving Judgement; Beyond Prejudice and Separation Emotions are the human technology to fuel the willpower in each of us. The experience of emotion, the by-product of thought is common to each of us. Rasa Yoga is the mastery of emotion, a human’s quintessential superpower and with proper development of our physical adeptness we are enabled to develop emotional intelligence, the …

Hurt is the Lesson; Wisdom is the Blessing As human beings, we are a microcosm of the macrocosm of the universe. To live this life experience from that scientific and spiritual truth, we begin to realize the process of living is an encounter of the light and the dark, the sacred and profane, organization and chaos. These apparent conflicts occur in the external reality, and …

The Essence of Higher Education Walking the Yoga path and choosing a yogic lifestyle is a courageous decision for the brave, those truly committed to learning how to live the best quality of life available! Yoga is the science of physical health, the art of fearlessness and the philosophy for ethical character. Yoga coupled with Ayurveda, when  studied, practiced and practiced more, will offer …