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Reading is a very important practice. It is the greatest form of connection to ideas and thoughts formed miles, hours, and millennia before. Think about the words you’re reading now. Can you imagine what I am doing while I write this? Where am I writing this? What motivated me? Reading is very important for self-development.…
All of us want to be happier. This is a universal truth. Thus many of us have turned to yoga. But in turning to yoga and meditation, we have fallen short of attaining that final rung on the ladder to happiness. Why? When confronted by any of the obstacles along the path, we tend to…
I’ve been teaching yoga for over 25 years. To my surprise, in that amount of time, the number of men doing yoga hasn’t really increased. I’ve seen incredible transformations with the men that I have taught. I’ve seen men break through self-limiting beliefs. I have seen them open their hearts in ways they never thought…
So many of us crave inner peace, but few of us know how to get there. Every year at Blue Osa, we receive hundreds of seekers looking for guidance on how to find inner peace. One of my most favorite practices to offer these sincere seekers is called, “The Cave Of The Heart” meditation. “The…
Have you ever thought about why you drink? I never have. For my entire life that question never came up. That is until recently. So I decided to do a 100 day wine fast. I remember the moment I began drinking. It was in 2008. Until that moment, I had never really drunk that much…
The need to have a spiritual guide is not new. Evidence for as long as man has roamed the earth, there have been people putting themselves in the role of teacher, religious leader, master, or guru. Perhaps it comes from this constant quest to figure out what our humanity is all about. So what is…
It’s no secret that the moon is the ultimate puppet master behind the flow of our oceans. When the moon is full or new, the moon and sun are aligned with the earth to create an exceptionally strong force on the ocean’s tides. These tides are known as spring tides and vary from extremely high…
Opening a yoga retreat center is the new black. Everyone wants one. Every aspiring yogi or yoga teacher I talk to these days asks me the same question: “How did you do it? How did you open a successful yoga retreat center in paradise (aka Costa Rica)?” The truth is, unlike many aspiring yogis, opening…
It’s happened quite a bit. Too many times to count actually. I’ll be introduced to someone new; we’ll exchange platitudes for a short while before the individual will lean in close, as if letting me in on a big secret, and whisper “You know…I’ve been thinking of holding a yoga retreat of my own one…
We all experience suffering and in our life. This suffering can usually be traced back to disturbances that exist deep within our mind. Retracing our steps back to our most inner sanctuary becomes difficult and challenging. But where do our disturbances come from? The source of all our disturbances in life can be traced back…