Something was missing and I felt powerless to address the suffering in my world. Finally, I was blessed with a serious spinal injury. How was it a blessing? Because if I wanted to help myself and others, something had to change.

That's when I decided to listen to my own intuition and to deepen my yoga practice. Academia, politics and doctors weren’t helping. But following the teachings of yoga and looking within, I was able to tap into my own innate potential and to begin uncovering my true self!

Every step on the path of yoga revealed more clarity. I began to see how yoga was available all the time, everywhere, in every moment of the here and now. I could also see that if it was accessible to me, it was also accessible to anyone and everyone. 

I also learned that yoga was not simply a physical practice, with physical benefits. By working through the body, we are actually training our energetic body and mind!

As a result, I was able to use the tools of yoga to heal not only my physical body, but to find peace and happiness available in every moment!

This led to even more transformation in my life, inside and out. This is because with steady and proper practice, prana flows into the center, completely shifting our perception of ourselves and our world: we see our true nature, even if only one powerful glimpse at a time.

Soon, I was helping not only myself, but many others. There was a sense of interconnection - indeed, my full potential is no different than everyone’s full potential.
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I was realizing that the secret to helping others was the secret to helping myself, and vice versa. The more I listened to my body and worked with where I was in each and every moment, the more I could be of service to others. So my plan began to unfold. I wanted to share yoga with as many people as possible so that others could experience freedom and love like I did. So, I began sharing yoga internationally.

Soon, my international reach began to expand - I was teaching in dozens of countries, connecting with a global community, and together our ability to share grew exponentially. We then founded Seeds of Joy Yoga Association and started the vision of Karuna Seeds Yoga to ensure that the teachings would spread and endure.
With these in place, we were sharing with more and more people seeking to transform their lives.

But there was still a limitation. Often, I noticed that students were very inspired and looking for freedom, but simply didn’t have a holistic view, or full understanding of what yoga offers.

“If only they had a proper foundation!” I thought. “Then I could show them that yoga was not just physical exercise, but a way of removing suffering, a wish-fulfilling jewel! Not only that, but they would see that this jewel is already inside of them, just waiting to be recognized!”

After years of sharing yoga, we decided to design a series of programs that would offer foundational training that anyone and everyone could access in order to realize their full potential and transform their lives and the world around them - because yoga is for all!

We created a 66-Day Self-Transformational Journey to help people establish an authentic yoga foundation and to empower them to walk the path with a community of like-minded individuals, and make the world a better place together.

So after years of collecting the teachings, sharing the teachings, and pouring my entire life into yoga, this journey and other programs as well, are becoming available for more and more people.

We offered a way to lay a solid foundation in yoga that works. People could go through the Laying The Foundation Journey and find time-tested tools designed to help them discover their true nature, tapping into their full potential and manifesting the life of their dreams! They could then continue with the Walking The Path Journey, and have a chance to more fully integrate those tools into their practice as well as move into more advanced practices.

We are launching our Laying the Foundation Yoga Journey in English and Spanish!!!
I’m so happy to be able to serve you in this way, to share the full power of yoga with people who really seek to find their full potential and transform their lives. I’m so happy that I can be surrounded by people who understand yoga is not simply stretching or exercise, but a path to freedom that we can all share! The community of like-minded yoga practitioners who are all working for a better world is growing all around me! I hope you’ll be a part of it too!