It seems like everywhere I turn lately, people, including myself, are in a constant state of fear. For some it's the fear of loosing their home and other valuables. For others it is the fear of not being able to do their life's work and pay the bills. The list goes on and on. Deep down inside all of these fears of insecurity are fears of disappointment and not being "enough".

Fear has a primal purpose to protect us. It lives in our cell tissue and tells us when to run, fight or freeze. It's our job to learn to use it.

The sacred energetic work that I do has taught me that our emotions leave chemical trails, and fear chemicals make it easy for other hunters to find us.

Realize that hunters are not just big scary animals we see in the wild. Hunters can also be overly aggressive toxic people in our lives who prey on our vulnerability. Take a moment to think about who or what is your hunter/predator? Who senses your fear and preys on it? READ MORE

Monday is Memorial Day. My intent at this time is to sit with our honored dead. Our warriors who died with a very big mission. They died attempting to do what they thought was right and it reinforces my own pledge of doing what I can to support our people on active duty as well as our veterans. I am grateful for them because I know that I can partly sit peacefully and in freedom because of their willingness to put their lives on the line.

In the Native American tradition, we have a place for the soldiers and the warriors. This includes what we call the "dog soldiers," who keep the laws of the people, like tribal law, like our police force. There are practices and ceremonies for each of these kinds of "keepers of the people" to help them cleanse and re-center on a regular basis as part of their career and Spirit-chosen job. Within "Forrest Yoga," I created practices and ceremonies to cleanse and re-center, and to connect with what matters most to you.

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It was a warm sunny morning in a yoga studio on the West side of Manhattan. I was grateful to take a class while I was in town. We were doing some inversions and arm balances against the wall, a personal favorite of mine, when all of a sudden I found myself out of my practice and fixed on some one else's; a common strategy for struggle is vacating your body and fixating on something or someone else. It was one of those practices that felt impossible to focus.

As everyone else was practicing their sequence of handstand splits to scissors pose or some variation of it, I sat there with my jaw wide open staring at a woman masterfully moving from the inversion to the arm balance. Immediately I went into my story, justifying to myself why I am still not able to do the sequence: " my hips are to tight" " my core is not strong enough", "I can't bend my elbows like that". The list kept growing.  READ MORE