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July 28th, 2024 Join the Community → Happy Sunday, Reader ☀️ I’ve returned to San Diego for a month of disciplined work. I plan on completing all 4 of my yoga tutorials by the end of August, at which point I can focus entirely on building out my YouTube channel. Despite there being vast desert surrounding the land I’m at, the property itself has a creek flowing through it, causing an abundance of trees and foliage to keep us cool. It’s quite wonderful. Additionally, my meditation practice is…

July 21st, 2024 Join the Community → Happy Sunday, Reader ☀️ I just got back to my spot in San Diego after twenty days of diving into the Self-Realization Fellowship curriculum. If you’ve been following my work for a while, you know that I’ve struggled immensely with controlling my binge-eating habits: late-night peanut butter scoops, sudden gluten outbursts, eating until my belly felt like exploding. Yes, I ate healthier than 99% of America. No, I was not satisfied with my lustful and…

July 14th, 2024 Join the Community → Happy Sunday, Reader ☀️ It’s now been a full week since finishing my meditation retreat and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how easy integration has been. Normally my entry into the “real world” after a week of perfect silence surrounded by peaceful monks is quite rocky. Apparently, cities filled with smoggy cars, angry pedestrians, and unlimited internet access is overstimulating for the human nervous system – who knew! Like I said, though, this…

Good morning Reader ☀️ I am fresh out of a meditation retreat and am feeling the incredible calm of having unplugged from the world. I had many personal breakthroughs, but this is what I feel called to share: A subtle tug of war has been taking place in my heart over the last few years. On one side, I daily taste the existential peace of meditation, reminding me how simple and wonderful life is. On the other side, I still very much enjoy the sense pleasures of modernity and all the tiny…

Happy Sunday, Reader ☀️ I’m about to head into my 6th, 10-day meditation retreat. In the past, these retreats were in the Vipassana tradition, meaning they focused exclusively on sensations in the body and were devoid of all communicative distraction. I’m taking a different approach this time. The retreat is hosted by the Self-Realization Fellowship, and is entirely self-directed. That means I can technically get on my phone, journal, read ancient texts and talk to the other students. It also…

Happy Sunday, Reader ☀️ I am feeling so incredibly alive and grateful after my 4-day Untethered Summer Camp in Big Bear, California. I laughed a lot, cried a lot, and was more seen than I ever have before. (Apparently, I also went semi-viral on Instagram from this reel a brother posted!) Crowdsurfing, woo! What I found most interesting was how easily my vices and dependencies vanished amongst this community. My tendency to overeat; my compulsion to binge YouTube; my need for validation….

Happy Sunday, Reader ☀️ By the time you’re reading this, I will just be finishing up a 4-day adult summer camp out in Lake Big Bear, CA with a group of ~50 incredible humans (pictures next week). The camp counselors took away all of our phones and laptops, meaning we had the rare opportunity to connect with ourselves and one another for days in a row without distraction. Even better, this summer camp is on the back of an incredible few days in Los Angeles, where – without any planning on my…

Happy Sunday, Reader ☀️ I have been feeling super anxious this last week. I just landed in California today at 2:00am for a month-long adventure where I will again be relying on the favor of others to drive me around, house me and occupy my time. (In contrast, I just spent the last month in Asheville at my own place, with my own car, and endless trails to hike.) I’m actually grateful for these restless moments, as I see them as opportunities to practice what I preach. It’s clear that my life…

Happy Sunday, Reader ☀️ Next week I’m flying out to Los Angeles and San Diego for a few incredible adventures: (1) I’ll be going to an adult summer camp, (2) living and teaching yoga at an Ecovillage, and (3) going to a 10-day meditation retreat in the mountains. It’s really exciting, but I will miss Asheville and my community. The mountains here feel like a soft, nice-smelling hug 🌲🌳🍃🌿 What’s on your mind and heart? Doing alright over there? I hope you enjoy this week’s Body • Mind • Spirit…

Happy Sunday, Reader ☀️ I’ve been working diligently to create some new tutorials for you. Below is a little sneak peek of my Wake the F*ck Up tutorial. It includes 3 rules and 5 different “arousal hacks” to make you feel incredible within just minutes of getting out of bed. Once I finish these tutorials (working on 6 in total, and two of them are already done) then I’ll shift my focus back to creating YouTube videos. Anyways…I hope you enjoy this week’s Body • Mind • Spirit Newsletter and…