Recently I came across an interview about self forgiveness and untangling the energy of conflict on the website Buddha at the Gas Pump with guest, Mary Reed - an “accidental” mystic.

Personally, I applied what she said in my life the day I heard her interview and every day since about authentic self forgiveness. I even dedicated my Ashtanga Mysore yoga practice solely to self-forgiveness the next morning and it felt amazing...

Imagine waking up to the expansive view of terraced, morning sun lit green rice patties from your lanai in Ubud Bali, where the sound of a running stream down below you welcomes you to a fresh new morning as the birds chirp happily. This was my morning every day of this past week. Heavenly.

At first I was mesmerized by the beauty and culture of Ubud that flooded my day to day experience...

Last Monday we explored the metaphor of a lotus flower blossoming and the layers of an onion peeling away, in order to shed the superficial layers of self, revealing the deeper inner Self.

But, what does this really mean? What are the layers anyway? And what is the need to shed them at all...