Dear YogaDownload students, It brings me so much happiness to share Iyengar Yoga with you through YogaDownload.com. While I can’t see you in person, I do my best to create a class that will benefit as many people as possible!

Hey there, YogaDownload students! Today, I just want to commend you and offer you my respect. Why? For centuries humans have told stories about leaving home and then returning... because it's very human to forget and then remember. To change and then change again. To come back around to the same spot different from who you were when you left. If you're like me... You may disengage from taking care of your body at times. You may disengage from feeling love—for your partner or family or even yourself—at times. You may forget to breathe. You may forget to act according to your morals. You may forget to put down your phone. You may forget to change your sweatpants. This is all human and it happens. But hopefully we remember and return. We atone for those mistakes. We change those pants. So I commend you and offer you respect for all the times you come back to the things that are important to you, hopefully a bit wiser for your wandering. Cheers.

I love connecting with all of you even though I may not know you personally; yoga connects us. Thank you for taking the time to roll out your mat, to connect with yourself and the divine that is flowing through us, and to click on my link. I enjoy sharing what I love and connecting with you through movement, breath, and meditation.

Dear YogaDownload Students, I’m so grateful to be highlighted as the teacher of the month. I feel so excited and enthusiastic when given the opportunity to film for Yoga Download and it has been a privilege to be a part of this community. Not only have I been able to connect with so many students from around the world, but I’ve really enjoyed maintaining relationships with the people behind the scenes! For me, yoga brings me home to myself and I’m so thrilled to help facilitate that for others.

Hi sweet humans, with so much change and unrest surrounding it can be hard to find your footing. Most of the things we hope are stable are not inherently stable at all. I've always found the most relief and solid footing in things that are True rather than things that sound good or feel good in the moment. The times that I have found those Truths were when I was the most devastated... whether that was because of relational pain, monetary stress or overpowering grief. The vulnerability can make us more interested in a spiritual pathway. One of the spiritual teachers that I turn to when I need a strong dose of the Truth is Pema Chödrön. Perhaps these words from her book The Wisdom of No Escape will strike you as they did me when a student shared them with me recently, as a no B.S. reminder that my footing is slippery unless it is placed wisely in the inner ground of my perception.

To my YogaDownload students, Hi beautiful people, thank you for being here, present. Thank you for allowing yourself to experience something new, thank you for that fluidity. I want you to know that if you have any questions/suggestions, I would love to hear from you. Thank you for choosing to practice with the YDL fam!

Dear YogaDownload students, Hi y’all and Happy August, wherever in the world you are reading this from. We’ve been back in the USA for about 18 months and the practice of yoga has been instrumental for grounding and navigating change and aging gracefully. While practicing asana, my commitment to the Yamas, Niyamas and the 5th and 6th limbs of yoga has been incredibly powerful. 5 and 6 are Pratyahara and Dharana, withdrawal of senses and focusing without interruption. So challenging, but so calming to the nervous system, the asanas and life in general.

Hello from San Diego, California lovely students! When I first began teaching for YogaDownload back in January 2015, I had no idea how transformative becoming part of our online community would be on my entire life. I love having the honor and opportunity to share yoga with you wherever you are in the world. These days, we are all at home more. Being able to practice together, to foster connection, resilience, strength, and lightness is more important than ever. Thank you all so much for choosing to breathe, move, and smile with me. And you Nothing But Core fans––every minute of those planks is to make you stronger––promise!

Dear YogaDownload students, I would like to thank all of my students, and all of the students of YogaDownload. First for making yoga a part of your lives. As a teacher it is humbling and a great privilege to share yoga with you. We all come to our mats for different reasons, but, each of us steps off that mat a bit changed. A bit more of our true selves. So to you and for you, thank you for making your wellbeing a priority and for sharing your yoga journey with those of us at YogaDownload.

Hello, YogaDownload students and friends, I’m writing today to say thank you for 14 great years with YogaDownload! You may not know this but I was the first YogaDownload teacher on this platform and when we first began, we did so with audio-only classes. This is how the slogan “take yoga anywhere” was formed. The idea was for me to teach the yoga classes I was teaching at the time for CorePower Yoga and put them online for people to do outside the yoga studio. YogaDownload gave them the freedom to practice wherever they wanted. The year was 2006 when YogaDownload was launched and it did so before the days of social media. YogaDownload was yoga before yoga exploded into every major city in America and it was the first of its kind. I am forever honored to be the first person to say yes to the best idea ever and I wish to say thank you to the students, who over the years, have allowed me to grow and expand as a teacher. I came in as a studio yoga teacher, who taught to 40+ people in each class, and had to quickly learn how to teach the same kind of classes to an empty room while sitting in front of a sound studio recording mic.