For a long time, I felt guilty that I stepped away from teaching. I needed to step away from teaching to truly become a student. For the first time in my life, I am deeply devoted to my personal and collective practice. Yoga has expanded vast and alive through me.

My palm pressed against the bark of the cedar; the boundary between us dissolved. I slipped out of my identity and into something primal.The essence of Kali came for me with teeth and truth.

Integration is the unfolding that arrives after the insight. It’s not the ceremony, the breakthrough, or the moment of clarity on the mat. It’s what happens after - when the world stays the same, but you don’t.

This year taught me how to be both wholeandformless. I asked for freedom and the Universe provided - not as a gentle gift, but as an overwhelming expansion.