We have been working on this new offering for the past year and we are now rolling it out for the first time. Through Deep Soul Rest, we aim to elevate your yogic experience to a new level.

I am deeply immersed in graduate studies, getting closer to finishing classes, and starting to write my thesis. I scaled back my in-person teaching by more than half to make room for the multitude of research, writing assignments, and tests.

A new beginning is upon us. Opportunities to grow and prosper beyond our wildest dreams. Shed the old and embrace the new as we embark together on this amazing journey!

I hope this month’s newsletter finds you healthy and happy. If you wonder how one can be happy with so much misery, uncertainty, and anxiety going on around us, I say just breathe.

Wishing you a happy new year despite the challenging beginning 2021 has already greeted us with.

This year, I gave myself a gift. I waited for it to arrive before sending this BLOG out. I wanted to make sure my gratitude and my joy are expressed in these lines.

I write this note after a long absence to update you on my life and my latest projects.

The year 2020 has been a strange and historic year, for all of us, all over the world. No one would have thought that this pandemic, the sheltering in place and an almost total paralysis of life as we knew it, was coming.

Today, I gave an interview to a journalist from the Middle East newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat about the role of women in newscasts.

That's how Nadeer lured me into yoga. I'm not sure if it was the “free” class or the “yoga,” which I've always revered in principle, or Nadeer's creative energy that enticed me to go. All I know is that I went; and it was in the basement of a yoga teacher's tiny studio that I had a brush with pure consciousness for the first time in my life.

Three weeks with yourself can drive you nuts.. Thoughts from all periods of your existence keep popping up. How this happened.. Why it happened and could this have been prevented? I miss this person, can’t stand that one and where the heck is such and such? How sweet is this memory.. and that memory.. I wish I can relive it over and again! Oh the pain I felt when that happened.. No wonder this person gives me the creeps, he must be a reincarnation of the awful “neighborhood fool”.. Where did that come from? I never thought I’ll remember it so vividly.

It isn’t a secret that I love to love and be loved. I think Love is the most noble of the human emotions and the most complex. Why we love, how we fall in love, why is it that some of us love the idea of being in love and are willing to go through much suffering for its sake, remain mysteries to me. But, let’s just say that I am someone who appreciates love and cherishes it. I’m loyal to the blissful feeling that accompanies it and wouldn’t mind living it over and over again with the people already in my life and new ones I have yet to meet along the path.

So wonderful to be back at the ashram and find all the wonderful faces happy to see me just as I am to see them. Their warm hugs and genuine smiles are heartwarming and infectious.

There is something about India that’s hard to explain in words. It’s a feeling, a passion.. A fire within.. Sometimes it’s a breeze or a wave gently caressing me from inside. Cleansing my spirit with love and compassion.. India to me is joy and peace.

When I planned my trip to India, little did I know that I’d be here in the most auspicious of times according to Hindu tradition. I must say, you can feel this celestial energy, a blessed feeling of sorts, an overwhelming sense of peace and possibilities.