02/14/2026
Happy Valentine’s Day 💗
As I am preparing for classes this week, I’ve been reflecting on yogic principle of ahimsa (nonviolence) not just as how we treat others, but how we treat ourselves.
In The Yamas & Niyamas, Deborah Adele writes about what happened when she experimented falling in love with herself. Not in an ego way. But in a steady, compassionate, honest way. And how that love naturally ripples outward.
Because the way we love ourselves
is the way we love others.
If we judge ourselves, we judge others.
If we soften toward ourselves… that softness becomes available to the world.
Self-love isn’t indulgent.
It’s ahimsa in action.
It’s choosing inner non-violence.
Today, may you fall a little more in love with the person you are.
May you speak to yourself like someone worthy of tenderness.
And may that love overflow. 💗