The word 'Yoga' is derived from the Sanskrit root 'Yuj', meaning 'to join' or 'to yoke' or 'to unite'. As I was taught during my teacher training, the highly physical forms of yoga such as Vinyasa (asana/posture practice), are actually considered the ‘lowest’ form of yoga. The ‘highest’ form of yoga is actually meditation. It is in preparation for meditation - to sit still and focus the mind - that the highly physical disciplines of yoga come into play.

After the release of Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘Eat Pray Love’, the little jungle town of Ubud, Bali became a tourist mecca for those seeking to journey back to their core and heal from their childhood wounds, broken relationships, insecurities, shadows, you name it - Ubud, and more recently Canggu, have the cure. Once a thing of magic and wonder, healing just like yoga and more recently, breathwork - has become a trendy, profit driven business.

The reality of our world in the present day is that most of us are vastly unconscious of who we are and the subtle and powerful mechanics of how our bodies, minds and this universe operate. Because we are malinformed, we like to hang the responsibility for our own feelings and emotions onto each other.

Most of us, however happy and free, live our lives in service of our egos. Your ego is the part of your mind which mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for your sense of personal identity.