I recently shared a blog post about finding joy after grief - it’s possible.

Which begs the question: HOW?

• How do we move forward after getting our hearts broken?

• How do we find abundance again after losing it all?

• How do we feel happiness when life feels so unfair?

Have you ever made the om sound in a yoga class?

In yoga, we refer to om as “the sacred sound,” rather than a word. As we vibrate through the syllable together, we all feel the same vibration pulsing through our hearts at the same time.

Instead of explaining the divine, we experience it.

Intuition is the same -

Grief is the second-greatest love I have ever known.

Grief is love looking for a place to go. It’s love that kisses our heart twice - an offering of the soul that makes a u-turn… and pierces the bullseye of the heart. Grief is love that can’t be diluted through reciprocity. So, instead, we drown in our own sweetness.

I have always geeked out on language and writing. Thus my bachelor’s degrees in both Communication Studies and Spanish. How cool that there is an energetic human experience… and using language, we can bond over the madness, beauty, and ecstasy that is life.

The men in our Pa’lante community recently came together for International Men’s Day, creating an Instagram campaign to raise awareness for mental health. This 38-second video prompted many deep, challenging, and transformative conversations. Ultimately, this was the intention of the campaign -

As I get older, it’s easier to believe that it’s not my first time on this earth. It’s a feeling of peace that I’ve been here before. (That we’ve all been here before.)

I call it my “remembering.”

We grow wiser each year that we add new countries to our list of retreat destinations. Here’s a pro-tip from each of the last ten (10) countries we have visited together:

1. Guatemala: Many villages in Guatemala speak a Mayan dialect first. With Spanish as the second language.

What a difference seven (7) years makes. The first time we visited the small fishing village of Lobitos, WAVES was a small, single-building program.

Today, it's a robust after-school program with eleven staff members, specializing in surf, skate, and Jiu-Jitsu. Each with a holistic approach and a focus on mental health.

While my life is rather humble, I rarely stress about money. When people ask me how I travel the world and still live within my means, I accredit financial stability + abundance to my yoga practice.

Here are the 5 ways yoga makes us more financially free:

Our center of self-worth lives primarily in the Solar Plexus Chakra. But there are ways to boost your self-worth within each of the chakras. Try one (or all) of these pick-me-up tips when you’re feeling down: