Yoga Family

I am a Yogini. I teach Yoga at Hamsa Yogashala. My students are my family. Just as, no matter where I go - visiting another city, another state, another country - when I take a Yoga class there, I find a group of likeminded souls engaged in a physical practice with a deep spiritual root. They too are my family.

How can this be? Because I, like all of them - some 17 millions of them - are working to be the best self I can be.

When you take a Yoga class, a meditation workshop, a vegetarian cooking class, or have Yoga Therapy, you become part of a greater community that extends around the world.

In South America or Russia, in Africa or Alaska, in China or India .. you will find an kindred spirit that marks no boundary lines, that knows no laws or restrictions, that extends back tens of thousands of years, that everyone on the planet can do and benefit from.

Yoga is not new, so its not a fad. Yoga does not belong to India alone, so its not a 'Hindu practice'. Yoga is not another exericise routine, but a body and mind lifestyle.

Nor is Yoga a religion .. which seems to be suffering world wide. Jews are worried about intermarriage, liberal Protestants are concerned about lowered attendance, Catholics are marshalling the masses, and the Episcopal church has been rocked with change. Unlike all of these, Yoga is not a religion .. so is neither limite or restricted by narrow religious traditions in a multicultural age.

Yoga means "union". The union of body and mind .. the union of warring groups to find peaceful solutions .. the union of ethinic factions to celebrate their diversity .. in short, people the world over are hungry for a real and lasting union of harmony and balance that actually addresses the physical and mental-emotional conditions of their lives.