I think that was part of why he gave me that name, but I certainly was annoyed about it. I think it's really a part of our work to be these new role models and show what that looks like. In terms of how I became a guru, it's really about my mission as a teacher.Įverything is changing now, and I think that's part of all of our jobs- to show what it looks like when a woman is a spiritual leader, or a woman is a political leader, or a business leader. It's really more about the spirit of a teacher and the spirit of someone who brings the light into the darkest areas of our minds and our hearts and our lives, and that's certainly my mission. Guru doesn't mean what we would classically think of like. I think he really groomed me in a way to be that.
I think he very much knew what was going to be happening with women, the rise of the feminine, and he knew that we needed women leaders. Gurus classically in the time that we came from, were men. I think that part of what he was doing, one, it's part of the destiny, but two, Guru Jagat is more normally used in India, and it's always men. gave me that name when I was very young. They're up and at it, doing it, doing what they love as much as they can. All the people who are the most successful have a very strong work ethic. I think it's important for everyone to know that I feel one of the keys to real, true success is a work ethic. It looks like it's an overnight success, and of course, if you're good at something, you should be making it look like it's easy. I think a lot of times people think that these things are overnight. Now it's en vogue, but when I moved from New York to LA, people were like, "What is wrong with you?" I moved after meeting Yogi Bhajan, and I did teacher training and got as much transmission from him as I could.įive months before he died, he asked me to teach at his school in Los Angeles, which I then taught at almost every day for a decade. I want to take you there." It was all orchestrated perfectly. He was like, "Let's go back to California. One of them was doing teacher training and moving to Los Angeles where the seat of his throne was.Īt the time I was like, "Why am I moving to LA?" I had fallen in love with a guy who was a California boy. He pointed me in the direction of a lot of things in the last couple years of his life. At the time, Yogi Bhajan was still alive. I was like, "This girl is cool." The moment I started, I knew that I had entered the right space. That was when I stumbled into my first kundalini yoga class, and some girl was teaching here in New York. I knew that there was something deeper, so I was looking in my heart of hearts for a spiritual teacher. The new lie that's happening is if you have a really good career, you'll be happy, and that's not true, either. I certainly didn't feel connected to some of the promises of the American dream, and cultural promises like, "You're a woman, and you can get married and have children, and somehow that's going to make you happy," which we all know is a falsity and a lie. I also knew that I didn't want to just live the work, slave, society life. I both saw the pitfalls of the spiritual path, and just a lot of the strange things that were going on in the New Age world of the '80s and '90s. She raised us as spiritual, and to be connected to ourselves, which I think is really all you can do with your children. She was actually one of the first dance and movement therapists that ever existed in America, she was super ahead of her time. Well, I had a really cool mom, which I think is the beginning of any good journey. She was very open-minded, and just amazingly strong. Will you share with us your journey? How did you become the woman and thought-leader you are today? Afterward, we had the opportunity to sit with her and dive into her thoughts on interstellar life, the myths about enlightenment, the power that lies within every woman, and what the next 26,000 years might look like. It's sharp, punchy, transformative and filled with light. She calls LA home, so when she was in the New York City for a few days this summer, we snagged a mat in one of her classes in the Lower East Side to experience her flavor of Kundalini. She offers workshops on aligning chakras entering the Aquarian age with grace discovering opulence, vitality, and chiseling out your authentic destiny mastering our own breath and more. She is a Kundalini teacher, chill-inducing public speaker, and founder of the RA MA institute- the spiritual oasis with locations in LA, NYC and Mallorca.
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