The well-known Buddhist meditation teacher and author, Jack Kornfield, once said, “Enlightenment is intimacy with everything.” In other words, the path of the heart is about turning toward the self, moving deeper into relationship with ourselves, others, and all that is. For this to happen we must face our fears.   Tantra , which means loom (as in a weaver’s loom), to pull or tie together, also means intimacy . A great question for us as practicing yogis is, how well are we w

Yoga teaches that life is a journey of self-awareness. We are here to find the place in the middle, between the instinctive self and the conscious self. We need both, but when we get stuck in one or the other, we get out of balance.

Yoga teaches us that we are already whole and complete, just as we are. Ganesha helps us remove the obstacles to this understanding.