Rachel Bonifacio

Happy June to everyone! How time has flown by — we're already in the middle of the year! We introduced this year as our year of skillful living. Our themes have been revolving around concepts from Yoga Philosophy, in no particular formal order, but there is a reason we laid it out like that, and maybe this month is the perfect time to share with you how they all connect to each other. We began the year with Svadharma, with a question, "What is appropriate for me right now?" It was an...

How has your week been? I am writing this at the airport, heading back home after an eventful first 3 months and a half of 2026. Finally feeling my guard relaxing a bit, my nervous system resetting. There's this particular kind of quiet that gradually happened this month as we ended something meaningful: the Yoga Teacher Training. Most of you know how busy it has been for me and the rest of the teachers involved in the YTT. Not just for the faculty, but also for the rest of the team who...

The more I studied, the more I realized that the path was not leading toward having all the answers, but toward becoming less attached to needing them. This is where the teaching of Vairagya started to make sense to me, not as a philosophical concept, but as a lived experience.