With my new fitness program, I was getting back into shape for sure, but out of all the different types of yoga, kundalini yoga was calling me the most. I realize now, although I didn’t know it then, that this was a date with destiny. Kundalini Yoga was actually working to move my energy and mind to better states. I'd never experienced posiitve change so fast. I had read lots of self help books trying to change my habits and gain greater prosperity and improve my life. The same pattern would emerge over and again. I’d get a new book promising some new result and it was very exciting. Then after a few weeks I was back where I started. I felt a little more aware, but nothing materially changed. Once I started doing Kundalini Yoga regularly, I could actually see my life changing for the better in real time. It works fast. Kundalini Yoga gives you the real energy, in real time, to have the actual experience of change; whereas the self help books just promise you change with mere words and information. That was the big “ah-ha moment.”

Information doesn't move the mind out of habitual thought patterns but kundalini energy does. You can’t think yourself into change from reading a book. You have to change the frequency of energy and you have to have a practice to move the mind through meditation. Then the mind can access a new stream of thoughts. Alot like changing the channel. You switch to a whole new program. To me, kundalini yoga was magical because for the first time, things were actually changing in real time and I could see the results. I started practicing kundalini yoga more and more. Then something amazing happened. I met my teacher.

There’s a saying, “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” When I met my teacher everything really started to change. In the old days of this tradition, you would have to find a teacher, which was very difficult to begin with. Once you found a good teacher and he accepted you, which didn’t always happen, you would be with that teacher for many, many years. It was a journey of hard work, practice and many trials with the goal of getting the transfer of wisdom energy that only the master carries. The deep transformational wisdom that comes from going deeper and deeper with meditation can only be achieved through receiving teachings transmitted from a master. Again, this is overwhelmingly lost in the west. Even with yoga now on every corner. I am very grateful to have had the great good fortune to find a real teacher and despite all the pitfalls, to hang on as best I could, and to take the teachings for many years now.

I have been teaching since 2005. I’ve taught many, many classes, workshops and teacher trainings worldwide and the same is true as it’s always been: A student comes to you because they want to gain some sort of self mastery and to experience the energy of change, of going higher, of transformation. A student comes because they want to experience their own infinite energy. That can only be achieved by a student who practices regularly, with devotion, and has the guidance of a teacher who has experienced the path themselves. One teacher training certificate isn’t going to give you that. Which I conclude is why Yoga is so bastardized in the west these days.