As part of bee folklore, there was a practice that involved telling bees about important life events—births, marriages, deaths, and other life transitions. It is believed that this practice of telling the bees is connected with bees being psychopomps, beings who could guide souls to the afterlife and other realms. This tradition uplifts the importance of ceremony, storytelling, and ritual as it relates to engaging with the bees and natural world to support us in our mourning and grief process.

The world is spinning fast, and in the spinning, it can feel difficult to remember the truth of who we are at times.
Join me for a practice based on my latest book, Illuminating Our True Nature: Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing. The practice will include meditation, pranayama, mudra, mantra, and movement practice to come back to who you are as an individual and who we are as a collective.

Show up as you are.

Illuminating Our True Nature: Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing is a guide for turning towards instead of moving away from our suffering, not only to better understand why we suffer but also to also open up pathways to freedom.

In this book club, we will read and study Illuminating Our True Nature, reflect on it, and engage with many of the concepts and practices it outlines.

We all get stuck in hurtful patterns that continue to create more suffering in our lives and the collective. In yoga philosophy, these patterns are known as the five kleshas. Each klesha leads us to create tendencies and karma that move us away from realizing and remembering our true nature and seeing ourselves as separate from one another and the planet. In yogic terms, this perpetuates a constant cycle of pain for us all.