My life has been a mysterious journey into the unknown, where I dwell now content in knowing that I do not know anything other than where, what and who I am. This knowing has been facilitated by everything that has ever happened to me, everybody that I have ever met, and so much more besides. Amongst the great gifts that I have been given is an insatiable appetite for the subtle.
This has brought me, slowly and unwittingly, to no longer need to struggle with life, however unpalatable it often can be. It has always been my natural impulse to share with others the bounty I have received. So it is that I started to teach yoga in 1979. Ten years later I was a full time 'professional' Yoga Teacher. By the time I had become a famous and celebrated one, I had found shelter and guidance at the hands of Zen Masters. Soon after I found the same from Tantric and Advaita Masters, and was teaching meditation and tantra alongside yoga.
My impatience with wishful thinking and speculation made it impossible for me to accept the transcendental, manipulative teachings of yoga, meditation and tantra. I found myself instead looking to the implications of my own direct, immediate experience. Here I found the Natural Intelligence underlying all knowledge, methodologies and techniques. Regular intimacy with Somatic Intelligence transformed my practice and teaching and exposed me deeply to the Spiritual Intelligence of Consciousness. This has allowed me to refine my practice and teaching into systematic methodologies of Somatic Intimacy, within which the non-duality of spirit and matter, body and mind, self and other are revealed experientially.
I offer the methodologies of Dynamic Yoga, Somatic Meditation, Somatic Tantra and Radical Ecology as a love-song to the world, and every living being that lives and dies within its inextricable singularity. May you feel more deeply, see more clearly and give more freely with every breath you are breathed by.
This has brought me, slowly and unwittingly, to no longer need to struggle with life, however unpalatable it often can be. It has always been my natural impulse to share with others the bounty I have received. So it is that I started to teach yoga in 1979. Ten years later I was a full time 'professional' Yoga Teacher. By the time I had become a famous and celebrated one, I had found shelter and guidance at the hands of Zen Masters. Soon after I found the same from Tantric and Advaita Masters, and was teaching meditation and tantra alongside yoga.
My impatience with wishful thinking and speculation made it impossible for me to accept the transcendental, manipulative teachings of yoga, meditation and tantra. I found myself instead looking to the implications of my own direct, immediate experience. Here I found the Natural Intelligence underlying all knowledge, methodologies and techniques. Regular intimacy with Somatic Intelligence transformed my practice and teaching and exposed me deeply to the Spiritual Intelligence of Consciousness. This has allowed me to refine my practice and teaching into systematic methodologies of Somatic Intimacy, within which the non-duality of spirit and matter, body and mind, self and other are revealed experientially.
I offer the methodologies of Dynamic Yoga, Somatic Meditation, Somatic Tantra and Radical Ecology as a love-song to the world, and every living being that lives and dies within its inextricable singularity. May you feel more deeply, see more clearly and give more freely with every breath you are breathed by.