This fall, I have been studying and exploring the tantric origins of my Hatha yoga practice and teaching. It is incredible to recall that my yoga practice began fourteen years ago when I found a translation of a classical Tantric text sitting in a box on the street in the East Village of New York City and I began to soak in these new yet strangely familiar Sanskrit terms and concepts. Now my practice has returned full circle into a deeper study of this text and related ones. Recently I have been inspired by a text called the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, which is written as a conversation between Bhairava or Shiva, who symbolizes divine consciousness and Devi or Shakti who symbolizes divine energy or creativity. This text offers one hundred and twelve practices that support an experience of our true nature through meditation on the most fundamental aspects of our life in a body. 
    Through these practices, we connect with our inherent interdependence with all life in its infinte expressions. I had the blessed opportunity recently to immerse in the study of Kashmir Shaivism with Paul Muller Ortega, a visiting scholar from New York. In this path, our practices of yoga, self-study, and meditation are for the purpose of refining our physical and energetic systems so that we can express our innate divine qualities more fully. From this perspective, Yoga practices and other forms of healing and personal growth serve to uncover and magnify our inherent wholeness, our inherent wisdom, our in inherent beauty. Slowly, I am beginning to weave the rasa  or essence of these teachings into my classes as I continue this amazing journey everyday that fills me with utter awe.  

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