The Tantra Practice

The Practice is a path of limitless love, compassion, and presence.

It is the deepest form of recognizing one another before dissolving into Sunyata (ultimate reality); a ritual between two or more beings who expand into one another, infinitely powerful and surrendered in eros.

It is not about sensual pleasure or grasping for a momentary release of energy, and has nothing to do with temporary excitement over our ever-fleeting experience of either our self or one another.

I am devoted to guiding individuals, couples, and small groups in The Practice, as I have yet to experience a more powerful path to reality than through this guided pleasure meditation.

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Background…

Ashtanga Yoga

12 years of daily practice and 1800 hours of yoga teacher training including:

Advanced Certification as a Jivamukti Yoga Teacher & Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Certification from Mysore, India.

I began my journey doing Ashtanga Yoga in 2014, as a Jivamukti Yoga teacher living in New York City. I was 21, studying Ancient Tibetan translation by day and waitressing by night. I was an eager yoga student, in pursuit of quieting the chitta vrittis that I first recognized were an obstacle while in high school in India. I begun in the Sivananda Yoga tradition, with the campus teacher, and moved on to study Jivamukti through both their teacher training and apprenticeship program. However, I found Home in the Ashtanga practice.

The moment I walked down the cement steps into the basement of the Avenue B Ashtanga shala of Guy Donahaye, I instantly recognized a sensation of belonging from a deeper place within me. There was humidity in the air as I opened the metal door to a line of Berkenstocks in the hall, the smell of a pot of chai mixed with sweat from the other room. It was silent aside from my arrival and the creaking of floorboards in the room next-door where people were practicing. I am forever grateful for this day and the person who told me, certainly not by any accident, that I should ‘try out Ashtanga’.

Eleven years later, I know my mat to be an island in the turbulent sea of consciousness. An island that also sees it’s storms, but my island. On which I do not control the weather, but can watch it pass and know that I am safe and blessed with this practice. With this life. It is only after all of this time, devoted to a daily practice regardless where I live, how small the corridor, or how cold it is outside. It is only after being asked to teach that I am offering this page and the teachings, reflections, and whatever else you find here. It is with grace and reverence for all of my teachers who have so accurately appeared and shared their practices with me, what I am sharing this with you.

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Tibetan Buddhism

MA in Tibetan Studies from Columbia University and over a decade of deep connection to the land, people, and culture of Ladakh, India.

According to the Tibetan Buddhist teachings of the six Bardo realms, to die each day is to live fully. Through yoga, meditation, pranayama, and dharma talks, my goal is to help us embrace the core of impermanence, both in life and death. True liberation comes through recognizing the nature of the mind amidst all that changes. I feel it is accurate to pair these teachings with the Ashtanga practice, and of course guiding tantra, not only because these are my two passions, but because they serve as echos and mirrors of the subtext sometimes missed in the study of just Ashtanaga yoga or Tibetan Buddhism.

I began to live among Tibetan Buddhists and gravitate to their daily practices after attending high school in India and then returning to work with Tibetan doctors at the Qusar Healing Center, in Norbulinga, India. Here at the foothills of the Himalayas, I was adopted into the first of several Buddhist families who would seamlessly invite me into their homes and therefore their hearts, so devoted to the Mahayana Tradition. Therefore, my background in these subjects began more similarly to that of someone raised in the culture than an academic. However, I went on to study Tibetan Buddhism and the language for my masters at Columbia University. I also lived for years outside of Leh-Ladakh, India. It was here in Stok Village that my understanding that nature, the mind, and the Mahayana Buddhist practice, are one. I have deep reverence for all of those those welcomes me into their homes, communities, and made me eat momos for all these years.