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Yoga and Ayurveda are both ancient and thoroughly modern. This can be confusing. There is nothing inherently right, true, or healing about a thing just because it is old. But there is nothing terribly powerful to falling in with the latest fads or the ways in which indigenous practices have been re-branded or co-opted to dominant culture, either.

I was taught to avoid both dogmatism and superficiality. I was taught to practice and teach the principles of yoga and Ayurveda, those things that hold true through the centuries and are therefore timeless and universal. I was taught to call out and avoid snake oil.

One of the most important principles of Yoga and Ayurveda is relationship. This is a radical orientation to teaching yoga. It’s radical in the sense of going back to the roots and principles, the essential. But it’s also radical in that, in acknowledging the primacy of the student in student teacher relationship, this methodology deconstructs and challenges dominant narrative, capitalism glossed with a spiritual veneer, and the ways social ills are embedded into the Yoga industry.

Traditionally, yoga was a years long relationship between teacher and student. What the teacher taught was directly crafted for the student, rather than standardized attempts to make the student fit the yoga. Over the course of time, a student is guided and supported in the process of discovering their own truth and living a meaningful life. Along the way, the student has help navigating change, questions, and addressing what comes up.

I’ve been taught that every student (and yoga teacher) needs to have a mentor. A mentor can provide practices and a slow drip of teaching and direction over time. Regular meetings with a mentor help us to stay on the path, to process as we go along, and ultimately to see ourselves. In time, the student teacher relationship itself takes on the aspect of 'yoga practice’ or ‘sadhana’: it is a commitment that ends up being liberating and enlightening; it’s a mirror; it’s both refuge and a catalyst.

I am willing to work with anyone on a 1:1 basis. I suggest you get a practice journal to take notes and record your questions or concerns. I will curate a personalized practice for you, based on your interest, needs, questions and situation. You then take this practice into your own life for a month. After a month we’ll talk again. What you discovered, felt, experienced, or learned through the lens of personal practice will then create the context for our next conversation. The practices may be adapted, changed, modified, or added to. Sometimes I recommend a chant. Sometimes a physical sequence. Sometimes an action in the world.

This relationship is important for professionalized yoga teachers. It’s important because as we professionalize we often muddy the waters between ‘teaching’ and ‘personal path’. Furthermore the environment of the yoga industry can be difficult to navigate. No one should try to do it on their own.

I ask $108 per session for this work, and recommend that you have a session 1x a month.