An Integrated TCM + Vedic Lens for Yoga Practice & Teaching This framework is not about gender. It is about energetic qualities that live within every human body. Yoga is the art of recognizing imbalance and guiding ourselves back into harmony. The left and right sides of the body offer a living, somatic map for this work. The Left Side (ladies first ;) Yin • Lunar • Receptive • Shakti • Feminine Principle The left side represents the inner world. It governs receiving, feelin

I didn’t wake up one day suddenly confident in who I am. I got tired. Tired of explaining myself.Tired of being misread.Tired of holding my breath in rooms where love felt conditional.Tired of editing my truth so it wouldn’t make someone else uncomfortable. I learned early that fitting in was currency. If I stayed agreeable, kind, understanding, I could belong. If I didn’t make waves, I’d be safe. So I became good at being liked. Not because it felt good, but because it felt

Healing is not something we do alone, even though many of us try to convince ourselves otherwise. For a long time, I believed healing meant retreating inward. Reading the books. Doing the practices. Becoming more regulated, more aware, more whole. I thought that if I could heal enough, I would stop needing anything from anyone else. That independence would equal safety. But life did not work that way. We are shaped in relationship, and so much of what hurts in us was formed t

For a long time, I believed regulation was something I needed to reach: A calm nervous system, a steady inner state, a feeling that I was finally “doing it right”, the feeling that I was liked by all. But life, and the ocean taught me otherwise. If you have ever stood at the edge of the sea, you already know this: The water is never still for long. Waves rise, crash, settle, and move again. Our nervous system works the same way - by design, it was never meant to be in a state

Defensiveness is not a flaw. It is not a sign that you are closed off, immature, or unwilling to grow. It is something much more human than that. Defensiveness begins in the brain, long before logic or language get involved. When we feel criticized, misunderstood, judged, or even subtly unsafe, a very old part of the brain steps in to protect us. The brain’s job is survival. It is constantly scanning for threat, and threat does not have to mean physical danger. Emotional thre

Let’s look at my foundational tool, The 7 Bodies Method. This tool explains that each of us have 7 bodies, being our physical body, our thinking mind, our emotions, our energy, our spirit, our soul and our intellect - which is our ability to learn. Now with this in mind, having 7 parts, each with it’s organic make-up, how is it possible that we could follow a step by step process in order to achieve our goals of healing or enlightenment or peace or whatever it is we are afte

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