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The Art of Noticing
Attention Over Anticipation Call it gratitude or acceptance. But the idea is noticing what exists rather than what could. I realize life offers infinite value, not always associated with joy. More is not always more. In Everywhere and Nowhere, I explain home as internal, carried, not located. The following continues…
Becoming The Traveling Yoga Chef: A Journey of Service, Recovery, and Reinvention
For most of my professional life, service meant welcoming people into restaurants, hotels, kitchens, and shared experiences. It meant preparing food with care, anticipating guests’ needs, supporting teams behind the scenes, and creating moments people would remember long after they left the table. After more than two decades working internationally…
Everywhere And Nowhere
Traveling and the Ambiguity of “Home” So I guess this is life. A constant stream of people and places, entered and exited. But maybe it’s not so much about who as what they leave behind. What they reflect or expose about us. The wounds we’ve neglected to properly heal that…
We Attract What We Are
Alignment, intention and doing the (inner) work trade first “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – C.G. Jung So much of life is cyclical and repetitive. Art is stolen, thoughts are borrowed and behavior is influenced. We move through…
Infinite Learning & The Soulful Kind
Infinite Learning, Divine Playfulness and Yoga as a Tool I craved meaning, so I chased understanding. I wanted purpose and demanded explanations. I believed success was external until I discovered self-knowledge. Depth built slowly through experience. A willingness to remain in constant evolution. Our time here is equally too short…
The Fear of Staying The Same
And Why We Mistake Change for Loss Imagine how frustrating it would be to try to hold air or running water; compositions not designed for containment. Humans are no different. We say we’re afraid of change. But maybe we’re afraid of loss; of what happens when the things we rely…
A New Year for Yoga Teachers
Growth, Community, and the Practice of Staying Open The end of a year has a particular weight that (seemingly) immediately dissipates overnight as the calendar turns. Reflection and remembrances arrive welcomed or intrusive. For yoga teachers, this moment often surfaces familiar questions that shape new intentions: Am I still growing?…
Discipline Versus Reality
Intention, illness, and letting go + my (almost) Vipassana experience I’d temporarily forgotten how to slow down or switch off. Busy by my own doing, and a screen time to remind me. So I signed up for Vipassana. To recalibrate and refocus. I’ve wanted to since my 200-hour teacher training…
Na Selva: Oca Yary and The Cacao Coast
“Aqui na Oca Yary, somos diariamente lembrados de que não somos separados da natureza. Somos natureza.” We are not separate from nature. We are nature. As I write this, I’m eating açaí and thinking about two things. The first is the dilemma of sharing a place so special while wanting…
The Digital Sangha: Yoga Community
Find Community in Yoga Trade’s Welcome Circle An online community can feel counterintuitive. We tend to associate real community with intimacy, something experienced in person. Yet preserving that sense of belonging today requires adaptation rather than resistance. Connection doesn’t dissolve online; it reforms. Yoga Trade facilitates expansion beyond local and…
The Lost Art of Getting Lost
Bahia’s wild coast & a weekend at Unah Piracanga Imagine a place before time. Before overconsumption and unnecessary development. When we built treehouses, not compounds, and kids grew up wild, freely roaming in nature. Locally grown food, products without preservatives, homes without locks, existing quietly in the jungle. Accessible only…
What To Do When Travel Goes Wrong
Finding grace in unraveling and self in loneliness In an ideal world, everything goes according to plan. Connections, promises, and people remain as we knew them, and the romanticized roadmap we mentally configure becomes our reality. However, most of us confront the truth of human existence as universal pawns and…
On Following Yoga, Surf, & Travel Dreams
Three years ago, I went on a retreat to the Yoga Farm in Southern Costa Rica that dramatically changed the course of my life. In May 2022, I graduated with dual master’s degrees in Environmental Science and Public Administration. Instead of walking at graduation, I submitted the final copy of…
Best Yoga Teacher Training in Bali 2025
Yoga teacher training in Bali is one of the best and most transformative things you can do for your personal growth and your practice. The island holds a unique blend of spiritual energy, natural beauty, and welcoming culture that creates the perfect setting to slow down, tune in, and fully…
Yoga Trades for Global Celebrations
Seasonal and Cultural Wellness Work Yoga trades for global immersion, celebration and rituals. I’ve always been chronically organized with thoughts and things. If the controllables had their place, I could assess figurative and literal bandwidth and determine what additions were worth allocating energy to. I always travelled on a whim…
The Yoga of Living Fully
Embracing life’s dualities through travel How sad a life would be to not let yourself feel everything. To repel emotion and instead move from one moment to the next. To be numb to the world is a disservice to yourself. The mundanities that evoke the emotion and energies of life….
The Yin and Yang of Yoga Trade
Navigating new – literal and figurative – space I often receive questions about being a full-time travelling yoga instructor and writer. The common thread in my DMs has inspired the following honest response of the highs and lows of travel work trades. Firstly, I’m a big fan of bad days;…
Yoga Therapy for PTSD & C-PTSD
More people are seeking yoga for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & Complex (C)-PTSD than ever before. Due to a growing body of research and the pioneering work of leaders within the field of trauma, many clinicians and trauma survivors are beginning to appreciate how therapeutic yoga can support healing….
Why We Teach and Travel
Curiosity and a search for wilder people “This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with…
Finding OM in Paradhis
A transformative festival experience in the magical land of Cornwall Featured Image: Ceremony at Paradhis Festival led by Abbey Lakshmi Astara There are only two places in the world where I have felt the vibration of the primordial sound of OM. Southern Costa Rica and Cornwall, England. I am drafting…
Feel the Love at Bhakti Fest!
Bhakti Fest is a beloved annual gathering in Joshua Tree, California. The positive ripple effects this festival creates are immeasurable. This year’s festival will return to the beautiful Joshua Lake & Campground, September 27-29, 2024. In 2011, I was a newish yoga teacher and attended Bhakti Fest for the first time…
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