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Stories share emotions and experiences with deep, profound, and powerful knowing. Stories are data with your soul. Comments make you a part of the story.
What the heart needs
Two women came in and sat in front of my class at the Santa Fe Spa. It was around 1990 and I was teaching 2-3 classes a week. On this day I was working with a warm-up set. Instead of using a fixed kriya, a warm-up set allow the teacher to work with the needs of the...
She’s so Fein
Not a misspelling. One of the greatest teachers I have ever met and am grateful to call a friend is a Jewish girl from NY? Judie Fein. She and her husband Paul Ross are travel writers, adventurers, healers, connectors, and bring a whole lot of chutzpah to everything...
Meeting Famous People
Okay, this may seem like a strange blog, and perhaps it is. There is an undeniable attraction and fascination with famous people. Underneath I believe it is our desire to recognize our own greatness, so we project this onto others. These experiences helped me better...
Advice to a Fallen Yogi
A student wrote to me about being consumed by old addictions and destructive eating habits. They asked for guidance. Here is my response. Reply: The courage it took to write to me, is the same courage you can use to make the changes you desire. Key it to really want...
The Upstairs Phone
I appreciate riding the trains in Germany. They take me over Europe to teach and all over Frankfurt on business and pleasure. It was late summer 1996 and the air was chilly and everyone was wearing light coats. I was on my way to the computer store to have them fix my...
Punk police & my bike lock
It was 1996, not long after I arrived in Germany I went for a hike with my friend Helga. I took my bike by train to meet her with the plan to ride 25 km back to Frankfurt. Much of it was downhill so it would be an easy ride. After our walk, I went to the front of the...
Ben – the dog
Ben was a gift, in many ways, but in the most simple terms, he was given to me by a dear friend. I have always been a dog person, so this was a good fit. Ben was easy going and pretty relaxed about most everything. For a time, we went everywhere together and enjoyed...
Married for life?
Fourteen years, then poof. That is how long my marriage lasted. It was a great shock. I really thought I would get married once and that would be it until the end. Technically, I have been married only once, but you understand my meaning. My wife was a multi-talented...
A Lesson in Humility
In 1999, I began teaching a yoga class 10.45 every Saturday at the Santa Fe Spa. It was a great room to do yoga at the end of the building with a padded floor and windows along one wall facing the mountains. Over the six years I taught that class, the weekly...
Spiritual room cleaning
I learned this technique from my work with the Living School and Reshad Feild. It is a remarkable tool for energetically cleaning a room. We use this in our teacher training programs and before all the workshops I teach. The students, even beginners, can notice the...
I broke the key!
Yogi Bhajan visited Miami each year before going to the winter solstice in central Florida. This is the big gathering of kundalini yogis to come together, do lots of yoga, chop lots of veggies, and participate in White Tantric Yoga. One of his secretaries, Sat Simran...
Teacher training & the accordion
After teaching Level 1 teacher training for ten years, many past students were ready for the next level. I had almost no idea how to manage a Level 2 teacher training but felt the students were ready and waiting. I looked around for a model of a successful program...
Making a Soul Greeting Card
A simple, fun, profound, unique, appreciated and a special process that no money can buy. NOTE: This blog is more of a how-to on making a card for another person. The card can be for any occasion. Birthdays, anniversaries, births, or any of life's big events. It is...
Hotel Grandparents
Most people remember those special times visiting their grandparents. The smells, old photos hanging on the walls, nick-nacks of useless stuff, fresh-baked cookies, sleep-overs, and a coziness that comes from being with the parents of your parents. This did not exist...
Curandera
In 1986 I developed an annoying health issue. hemorrhoids. I did some research and discovered this was connected to a weakness in the liver. I'm a yogi, I know how to heal my liver. So I began some exercises and added specific foods to my diet and eliminated other...
Stories Told to Me
On a dangerous road in Kenya, two buses were approaching the same narrow bridge from opposite sides, neither yields and they crash. Many people were killed. A man was spotted taking the mobile phones from the dead passengers. A Maasai man tells him to leave the phones...
An Amazing Family
I got a call from a young woman asking if it would be okay if she joined my class. She explained as a child, she was injured in a fire that left limited movement in one leg. I told her she would be most welcome to join the class and explained our emphasis was not on...
The Hopp Way
Michael Hopp showed up in my yoga class in Santa Fe around 1990. Each yoga style has a type and Michael did not look like a Kundalini Yoga type. During the class he struggled but did his best to keep up. After the class he shared his true mission. He was interested in...
Yogi Radar
To me, this is a real thing. What is yogi radar? It has something to do with intuition, destiny, need, attraction and trust in the unlimited possibilities available in every moment. One time in a store I wanted to buy an item, but they were out. I was told they could...
Magdalena Oracle
The Magdalena Oracle has 45 beautiful hand-drawn cards. A small book has a description for each card. It was a gift from a student many years ago. Something like a tarot deck but for me, much better as I had a strange experience with a tarot deck and swore not to use...
“Oh, Swami”
Wearing a turban produced many and varied reactions over the years. I never felt offended since I understood peoples reaction was based on their own confusion or fear. Mostly I felt amused. The first reaction I remember came from my father. I was working at one of our...
Pride is a deep hole of mud
The first days of my retreat in the Scottish Highlands, as I look out the window of my remote cabin, a beautiful deer was in the field eating the grass. I often see deer in the woods behind my house in Germany but they are mostly far away or moving quickly. I got to...
Lorenzo Sandoval
Lorenzo Sandoval was an unlikely healer. His chiropractic practice was a room in his house. He only charged one price for everyone. Some sessions took 20 minutes, some 45 minutes and some almost an hour. It did not matter. He had only the one rate. His manipulation...
Rattlesnakes like me
The only place to find rattlesnakes in South Florida was at the famous Miami Serpentarium. It was famous for the work done by Bill Haast who had a thing for snakes. He had developed the anti-venom serum that was needed to not die from the bite of a poisonous snake. He...
Living in heaven & hell
Its official name was Ram Das Puri. It was the location for the annual 3HO summer gathering known simply as Summer Solstice. It was a celebration of yoga, meditation, and all things related to Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Previously it was sacred land to...
Gurumarka Khalsa
Kundalini Yoga trainer, coach and spiritual guide.
Sharing stories is the foundation of a life worth living .
Lives in Ober-Hambach, Germany