Exploring the Most Influential Yoga Teachers in History
Delve into the transformative legacy of influential yoga teachers past and present. Explore their philosophies, impact, and contributions to the yoga community.
Honoring Yoga’s Roots: Cultural Appreciation and Respect For Yoga
Explore the significance of acknowledging and appreciating the cultural origins of yoga through insights from practitioners and teachers worldwide. From Kosovo to New Zealand, discover why embracing yoga’s heritage is essential for a meaningful practice in our diverse and globalized world.
The Heart of Yoga: Connection Community and Support
Dive into the wisdom of yoga teachers from around the world as they share profound insights on community building within the yoga realm. From supporting and uplifting one another to defining the essence of community in the yoga world, discover practical tips and heartfelt experiences that illuminate the transformative power of shared practice.
Aromatherapy Secrets
Aromatherapy Secrets to Extend Your Yoga Practice Off The Mat: After completing a yoga asana, meditation, or pranayama practice, we all know how easy it is to lose that sense of calm and groundedness that we gained through our practice. Life happens!
From Mat to Mind: How Yoga Transforms Mental Health
Discover the power of yoga for effective stress management and anxiety relief. Elevate your wellness journey through the transformative practice of yoga!
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Through Yoga: Honoring Roots and Embracing Inclusion
Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage has greatly enriched the world, with yoga serving as a profound bridge between cultures. By embracing this heritage and celebrating its contributions, we foster a more inclusive and interconnected global community.
How to Find a Good Yoga Teacher
Wondering how to find a good yoga teacher? Whether you are just getting started on your yoga path, or have been practicing for a long time – finding a good yoga teacher is key.
Finding Calm in Chaos: How Yoga Can Help You Manage Stress
Stressed out? Learn how yoga can help you find peace amidst chaos and create a more relaxed state of being.
The Earth Beneath Our Mats: How Yoga Can Inspire Environmental Consciousness
There are many ways to align your yoga practice with environmentalism. Let’s explore how yoga and environmentalism intersect, diving into yoga teachers from around the world’s perspectives, advice, and tips for becoming a more environmentally conscious yoga teacher or practitioner.
Full Moon Yoga
The impact of the full moon on one’s yoga practice is unique to each individual. Whether you choose to engage in journaling, reflection, or more gentle full moon yoga practice, the full moon can be a powerful time for self-exploration.
Women in Yoga of Great Impact
As it is women’s history month, we here at the Wild Yoga Tribe wanted to continue to shine a light on the incredible women on the path of yoga. While yoga is a deeply intimate, personal journey, it’s not often that we walk the path alone. A yoga student needs a...
Women’s History Month and Yoga: A Look at Female Yoga Practitioners and Teachers Throughout History
Women have fought to have their presence respected in yoga spaces for thousands of years. To celebrate Women’s History Month, we wanted to highlight women in yoga who pioneered the practice in America! We hope their contributions will continue to be recognized throughout the community.
My Yoga Teachers in India
Meet my yoga teachers in India! Ever wondered what it’s like to study yoga in India? You’re in the right place.
How to Meditate for One Hour
HOW TO MEDITATE FOR ONE HOUR? Step By Step Guide for Meditating for 1-hour If you have been wondering how meditating for a whole hour is possible, you're in the right spot. While you can work towards sitting completely still for an hour, here is a step-by-step guide...
What is Reiki?
The word Reiki can be broken down into two parts, Rei and Ki. Rei means universal or cosmic and ki means energy. Reiki is learning how to grab the universe energy and transfer it.
Nepal Yoga Home
Welcome to Nepal Yoga Home! Hear a bit about my journey there in 2017 doing my yoga teacher training.
What is Raja Yoga?
Raja Yoga is known as the Royal Path. It incorperates Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Jnana Yoga as well as Patajali’s Eight Limbed Path as described in his Yoga Sutras.
What is Jnana Yoga?
Jnana Yoga is one of the paths to liberation and salvation as described in the Bhagavad Gita. It is the Path of Wisdom or the Path of Knowledge.
What Is Bhakti Yoga?
What is Bhakti Yoga? Bhakti Yoga is the Path of Devotion, the path of surrendering to the source. Through unconditional spiritual love, a path to enlightenment and liberation emerges.
Sanskrit Tips
Ever wanted some handy dandy sanskrit tips to make learning the yoga pose names as easy as pie? Let’s cover some Sanskrit tips together!
The Sacral Chakra
The second chakra is the sacral chakra, called Svadhisthana in sanskrit. This chakra is responsbile for our emotional identity and for our sexuality. Explore Svadhisthana and what a balanced, imbalanced, and blocked second chakra looks like! We’ll also dive into some healing techniques and yoga tips!
The Root Chakra: Muladhara
Muladhara is the first chakra in our system, located at the base of the spine. As it is the foundation for the other chakras to build upon, it also deals with the foundation of being and body. Ready for more?
What Are The Chakras?
First documented and described over 4,000 years ago, the chakras are an energetic system that influence and exist inside our bodies. These seven spinning wheels reveal truths and patterns about who we are and provide information on how we can orient ourselves towards that which we seek!
Yoga 101: The Basics
Sometimes, it’s good to go back to the basics. Here I will cover some of the frequently asked questions, or rather the frequently unasked questions, that everyone seems to be wondering about! Let’s cover when to eat before practicing, what to wear, when to shower, etc! Let’s go!
The Gunas: Sattvic, Tamasic, and Rajasic Diet
There are three gunas in the ancient ayurvedic philosophies: sattva, tamas, and rajas. These three subtle essences can inform us on how to have a proper and healthy diet!
What Is Drishti In Yoga?
Have you heard of the word drishti tossed around during a yoga class? Were you confused about what drishti is or maybe why it’s important? Find our more about what drishti is here!
How To Solo Backpack In India: India Your Way
Wondering if you’re up to solo backpacking in India? I know it can sound intimidating, so let’s break down how you can do India your way!
Kopan Monastery
Kopan Monastery, a Buddhist monastery in the Mahayana tradition is located on a hilltop in Kathmandu. I did a weeklong meditation retreat there in May 2019. Read about my experiences here!
Returning to Nepal
Returning to Nepal makes my heart jump for joy, especially when stepping right into a wonderful volunteer opportunity in Nagarkot at the beautiful Hotel At The End Of The Universe.
Lunch with a Homeopath
In Rishikesh, you truly never know who you’ll meet and who you’ll end up having a conversation with. Rishikesh draws travellers from around the world who are curious about the world and who usually have unique and special passions in the fields of spirituality and wellness. I was lucky enough to have lunch with a homeopath Quigong practioner from Belgium. Read on to learn more about what I learned from him!
The Meaning of Namaste
There are many different interpretations and translations of the ancient and sacred sanskrit word: Namaste. Let’s explore further what this word means today.
Seek the Treasure of a Mind at Rest
The words of the ancient Persian poet, Hafiz, has trickled into my life over the years. I wanted to give his poetry a real try and picked up one of his books on my travels.
Ashtanga in Rishikesh
There are hundreds of yoga schools in Rishikesh that teach Ashtanga. I am happy to share with you my experience taking an ashtanga class from Guruji Prashant at Vidya Yoga School in Rishikesh.
Hatha Yoga in Rishikesh
Hatha Yoga Class with Surinder Singh at Swasti Yoga in Rishikesh was a profoundly grounding experience – a reconnection of what Hatha Yoga truly is.
Peace Is Every Breath
Peace is Every Breath is written by celebrated Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, Thich Nhat Hanh. This delightful and easily digestible short book is all about how to take mindfulness practices directly into the busyness of your daily life!
Empty Like A Bowl
Revisiting this poem made me think of yoga. It illustrates my desire to be one with the world, and as the Rumi saying goes, to be not a drop in the ocean but the entire ocean in a drop. I wanted to share it with you all, in case it sparks a little love for yoga or poetry, or yoga poetry in you all.
Reiki Benefits, Principles, and Laws
Rei means spiritual or universal. Ki means energy or life force. Reiki is learning how to grab the universal energy and transfer it. Reiki can be both curative and preventative, cleansing the body of negative energy and of energy blockages. A Reiki healer is a healer...
Vegan Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
Vegan cookies are always a win! Always love making up my own recipes and playing around in the kitchen. Especially when they can be vegan, low-carb, and refined sugar free (if you go the agave route!). Give it a try yourself and let me know how it goes! Easy, Breezy...
Wellnessland Vegan Cafe
Wellnessland Vegan Cafe in Cebu, Philippines, is a delight! They keep yogis and healthy eaters well-fed with plant powered whole food!
Wellnessland Health Institute and Wholeness Center
In August 2018 I was the Visiting Healing Arts Practitioner at Wellnessland Health Institute and Wholeness Center. What a rewarding month this would be!
Put a Ring on It
A Ted Talk from Tracy McMillian that gave me a lot to think about! Let’s put a little focus on self-love and self-empowerment!
Mellow Yoga
Mellow Hostel in Sri Lanka is a gem. I was lucky enough to teach yoga to spend the month of June there teaching yoga and enjoying the palm trees, puppies, and ocean waves!
Vipassana
Learn about what a Vipassana meditation retreat is and what to expect from your time spending 100 hours in silent mediation.
Yoga in an Art Gallery in Rishikesh
You never know where your lessons will come from. Sometimes it’s in the most surprising places that you will learn something new. And I love being surprised. I keep my heart and eyes open for opportunities to learn. I feel that the universe is always teaching me...
We Are Already Perfect
I walked into a jewelry store in Rishikesh on a whim, Inter World Gems and Handicrafts. The owner was laying down on a couch and I asked him if I could see a ring in the case he had put outside. He handed me the keys to the cases and said, “Make yourself at home.” I...
Rishikesh
Arriving in Rishikesh, it’s readily apparent that you’re stepping into the yoga capital of the world. Rishikesh is home to what feels like hundreds of yoga studios and thousands of yogis and yoginis. Rishikesh is an oasis for all that is yoga. As a sacred city, it is...
Anchalii Wantha Aphiwaat
Anchalii, Wantha, Aphiwaat is a Buddhist prayer. At Wat Pa Tam Wua Forest Monastery, we closed every meditation practice with this short form of prayer and respect. The monks said it was an a way to illustrate the practice of mindfulness. I...
Meditation Techniques: Samadhi and Vipassana
There are two main types of mindfulness meditation, Samadhi (also referred to as Samatha) and Vipassana. These two types of meditation work in conjunction with one and other to bring the individual towards tranquility and the highest, absolute wisdom. Samadhi is...
Lessons in Buddhism: Wat Pa Tam Wua
What I appreciate the most about Buddhism is that its pillars are kindness, humanity, and equality. It is completely tolerant as it excludes absolutely no one. It also does not seek converts and never expects blind belief. A confidence in the Buddha as a guide on the...
Wat Pa Tam Wua Forest Monastery
I spent eight days at the Wat Pa Tam Wua Forest Monastery in Northern Thailand. My time there was spent in meditation, practicing and learning about Vipassana and Samadhi meditation techniques and about Buddhism.
When A Yoga Class Is Perfect
Nobody and nothing is perfect, alright, you caught me. But sometimes, somethings come pretty close. I'm am grateful to be at the point of my yoga teaching journey, when I can lead a class based on the energy in the room. I can feel which asanas are needed,...
When A Gecko Joins In
As with all things in life, it’s easy to fall into a routine. When in a routine, it’s easy to forget important things. I don’t mean forgetting your car keys or forgetting to pick up milk, I mean things of real worth: your commitment to certain values, morals, or ways...
Yoga Transcends Language
Yoga transcends boundaries, borders, and barriers. Sharing the same language doesn’t even matter when it comes to yoga.
Bloom Wherever Planted
As cliché as it sounds, growing and thriving in new environments is something I’m learning a lot about! Check out this post for my meditation and rumination on this little cliché, but powerful, concept.
Yoga to the Sounds of the Ocean
Practicing and teaching yoga to the sound of the ocean is something I never thought I’d do. There is unequivocally something uniquely special about doing yoga to the sound of the ocean’s waves.
Huba Huba
All about life on the wonderful island of Koh Rong Samloem off the Gulf of Thailand in Cambodia. I worked as a yoga instructor at Huba Huba for a couple months at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018.
How To Choose Your Yoga Teacher Training Certification Program
Choosing a yoga teacher training program is an important decision and I’m glad you’re considering it. Check out some of the variables I considered when making my decision. I hope they may help you make yours!
