Dear YogaDownload Students: I’m honored to be teacher of the month and so grateful to be a part of the YogaDownload community. Thank you for taking my classes and sharing your thoughts. I’m always open to feedback and I love to find more opportunities for growth. I strongly believe that yoga should be accessible for everyone. If you can practice yoga in your home, on vacation, or at work, then YogaDownload.com makes it easier to incorporate yoga into your everyday life. There are so many talented teachers on YogaDownload.com. I encourage you to try all styles of yoga and find the ones that speak to you so that your commitment to yoga lasts. It’s a beautiful journey, and each day your body will need something a little different.

A message to your YogaDownload students: Thank you to all the YogaDownload students for your positive AND constructive feedback. It is my joy to inspire you and theme on subjects that make you process and go a little deeper within. And when you offer suggestions for improvement, I receive them as I'm always looking to grow as a yoga teacher. I love YDL because of the diversity of teachers on the site. Not everyone will identify with my style of vinyasa yoga or with my combination yoga and sculpting classes, but there will be another great teacher on the site that speaks to them! I encourage you to try styles that may be new to you as they could speak to you in different seasons of life.

How does yoga make you a better person?: One of the biggest misconceptions on the spiritual path is that yoga is going to somehow going to improve you or make you a happier person. The problem with this equation is that we come to yoga with something we want to improve ourselves with. If we come to it from a place of feeling broken or i’m not already a good person. I’m lacking something. I’m screwed up somehow and I need the external thing to make me complete. This mode, this way of operation is doomed to fail, right. If you come to yoga or any spiritual practice from a place of deeply aligned, plugged in, wholeness, fullness and then yoga seems to call you to as a practice to enrich or enliven or illuminate that practice or that deep connection, that seems sustainable. You don’t become a better person. You become a more aligned, connected, authentic person, perhaps, through practice. That’s all it is.

A message to my YogaDownload students: It is a thrill and an honor to teach for YDL. I love creating classes for you to practice at home or on the road--when and where it works for you. I am grateful to be part of a community that fosters accessibility, discipline and a rich and varied practice. Consistency is key--even a few minutes of day will keep you on your yogic path.

A message to my YogaDownload students: I am so grateful for all of my YogaDownload students. Thank you to everyone who has ever done yoga with me in their living room, basement or on vacation. I am so fortunate to be able to do what I do as a career and a large part of that is due to your support.

A message to my YogaDownload students: Thank you for coming to your mat day after day and practicing yoga with me. When I teach these online classes I picture you in your living room, bedroom, or home, and do my best to connect with you even though we are not in the same place or time. Know that I am always talking to YOU when I teach. Know that I believe in you, and that even though I cannot see you, I am rooting for you. It has been my complete honor to be your teacher. Please continue to share your feedback in your reviews, and feel free to reach out to me. From the bottom of my heart, Namaste.

A message to my YogaDownload students: I regularly imagine YDL students practicing yoga in their living rooms, hotel rooms, and on vacation and it immediately brings a sense of awe and gratitude to me. I have been so blessed to have yoga in my life and to know that all over the world people are opening their hearts, minds and bodies to the practice covers me in chills. I know that the quality of my life and everyone I come in contact with is made better because of my yoga work. Consequently I know that there are countless people making their lives better not only for themselves but for everyone they touch. I would call this a revolution and I am honored to even play a small part in it.

A message to my YogaDownload students: My dear students, thank you so much for your enthusiasm and loyalty over the past few years that I’ve taught for this site. I absolutely love knowing that you are enjoying my classes from all around the world. My hope to is to keep my classes accessible and fun, while provoking curiosity and the drive to learn more about working with your body and mind. Please remember to have fun in your yoga practice, and not take it too seriously. Life is serious enough, right? Enjoy!

A message to my YogaDownload.com students: Master the basics. Do not be seduced by fancy shapes and complex movements. Slow down. There is unimaginable depth to the simplest of yoga gestures, and rushing - both the rushing to more "advanced" practices, and the rushing through each individual gesture - always results in delaying our progress and stunting our growth. If you observe beginning qigong practitioners, they perform large physical gestures to move vital energy through the body and through space; however, if you watch the great masters, they hardly move at all - but the result is infinitely profound. It is just so with yoga - the more advanced the practice, the more subtle; and the deeper one's realization, the more simple it reveals itself to be, and to have always been. So refrain from succumbing to the temptation of the external - dive deeply into each gesture and every single breath, and realization will surely come more quickly.

A message to my YogaDownload students: Thank you to everyone who has ever done yoga with me in their living room, basement or on vacation. I am so grateful to all of you. I am so fortunate to be able to do what I do as a career and a large part of that is due to your support.