August 7th, 2018 When you don’t know who you are, you believe what you see reflected in the mirror of the others, whether it’s the one before you now, or the internalized parent, or the programmed mass consciousness of your culture. So, let’s say that you are blessed by Grace to discover, to know through your own direct experience, the …

Do you sometimes wonder… Why am I here? What am I doing? Who am I? What am I? I had just finished my Yoga Teacher Training, later in life, after raising a family and finding myself at a crossroads of yet another relationship ending. Our Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras teacher was offering something I had never heard of before: a self-inquiry retreat …

Come, come whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of living. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come. -RUMI-   When you or I commit to self-inquiry work on an Enlightenment Intensive Retreat, we are giving ourselves the opportunity to release the …

When taking or Mastering an Enlightenment Intensive Retreat, or going into meditation with a Master Teacher like Gurudev, I can actually feel the vibratory shifts occurring when one moves into deeper altered states and direct experience. I’ve often thought that if we were somehow monitored during the self-inquiry work, we would see the movement through different brain wave patterns on our journey of …