What is alive in me today is gratitude. As I work on this little website project (finally, after a very long time of talking about it) I'm grateful that I'm finally able to put all these activities on the yoga path into one place. And the first thing I want to publish in this one place is my enormous debt to my teachers.

Teachers have appeared so plentifully and generously in my life that I don't actually have the Bandwidth to thank all of them. But then, that's the point of this post. Each of us has benefitted so much from the knowledge, work, creativity and service of so many others, that the debt is insurmountable. There is no way I can be here without the fact that others were there --in multiple arenas of my life-- for me to learn from.

Beginning with my participation in a meditation program in India in 1988, and continuing through the present day, I'm blessed by the amazing people who make serving others through teaching sadana (practice) their priority. At their best, yoga teachers help us turn the lens of our awareness inward. They help relieve our pain and show us our gifts, our inherent goodness, our unique light. They help us polish and hone our light through the physical, emotional, spiritual, practical and esoteric practices of yoga- as we are ready for them.

The teachers I'd like to personally acknowledge in this post for their continuing influence on my work are:

Karen Sprute-Francovich

John Friend

Paul-Muller Ortega

Christina Sell

Jeri Hudak

Carol Carnes

Mr. BKS Iyengar

Truly, when someone is willing to engage with you at the level of Yoga, with only your best interest at heart, there's no way you're ever going to be even. And truly, for the yoga teacher, the only option for paying back her teachers is to pass it on to others with the same generosity. Most of what I teach was given to me by another teacher. I just hope to have enough energy, skill, integrity and time to do it all justice.

All the Best Wishes and Namaste,

Karen