11/27/2025
YOGA, TRUTH, COMMUNITY ETHICS and GRATITUDE 🙏
Yoga asks us to hold compassion and also to hold truth. Both are necessary for a healing community to exist.
It is easy for the mind to move toward dishonesty, to deflect from transparency, the very truth that yoga asks us to cultivate in order to dissolve what keeps us from meeting the Divine. It is effortless to avoid accountability, rearrange the story, and defend an identity built on illusion.
The untrained mind would rather protect its own narrative than sit in the discomfort of awareness and truth. It drains others for attention, validation, or control, then disguises its harm through blame and distortion. This is Avidyā, spiritual blindness.
There is a deeper level of spiritual harm that occurs when truth is intentionally hidden, and support is used as a shield for dishonesty. When kindness becomes a tool for avoidance rather than growth, it distorts a very trust that was offered in good faith. This is a misuse of energy in a departure from Satya, truth.
It is a distortion of Satya, truth, and Ahimsa, non harm, so profound that it weaponizes trust. The harm is not just in the lie itself, but in how it hijacks the compassion of others and asks them to protect what is false while appaulding them for believing the very own deception they created to lock them in an illusion and deflect from their true actions. It is important to be conscious of this, not to judge, but to protect integrity, truth, and basic ethics and morals that we stand by in Yoga.
Moha, delusion, is the internal poison that clouds clear seeing. It keeps the mind attached to illusion, comfort, and self deception. Instead of meeting truth, the mind chooses distortion not out of strength, but out of fear. This delusion is one of the greatest obstacles in spiritual practice because it convinces us that the false is safer than the real.
Yoga calls us to inner alchemy, not to become someone new, but to see clearly and live freely. It purifies the mind of Moha by dissolving the stories we hide behind, the masks we wear, and the identity we defend. When the clouds of confusion fall away, we are no longer bound by deception nor driven by fear. We begin to meet life with transparency, integrity, and openness to the Divine.
Yoga teaches something vital:
-People see according to their consciousness.
-A mind ruled by fear will believe a comforting lie.
-A heart without discernment will defend what harms it.
-Trying to expose truth to someone who is not ready will only pull you out of alignment.
So let people see what they choose to see, not out of apathy or bitterness, but out of wisdom.
***The greatest power is not in exposing deception but in refusing to feed it. Truth requires no exploitation. When it is asked for, it can be given without force. What is real stands on its own.***
One eventually learns not to chase misunderstanding. Every soul must move through its own journey in its own timing. Clarity cannot be forced on those not ready to see. We do not drag others toward awareness.
Instead, remain in Satya so fully that whatever is false simply collapses on its own. Protect your energy, honor your integrity, and trust the Divine to reveal what needs to be seen. Hold compassion, and pray for those who cannot yet see the truth, knowing that awareness will come when the soul is ready.
There are lines that should never be crossed in a healing community, because crossing them injures the very people who come to be restored. A space meant for truth, compassion, and transformation cannot become a place of manipulation, control, or deceit. When someone brings harm into a healing space, even silently or behind closed doors, it is not just an offense against one person. It is a wound to the collective. It damages trust, disturbs unity, and fractures the energetic field we all share.
This is why ethics in yoga are not optional, but they are foundational. The physical postures are only one small branch of yoga. They were never meant to exist without living in truth, non-harm, and responsibility. Satya and Ahimsa are not ideas to admire, they are boundaries that protect a sangha. Without them, kindness becomes performance, compassion becomes a disguise, and people who are suffering become vulnerable to harm. Deception, manipulation, misuse of resources, and disrespect toward others cannot be tolerated in a healing space. These behaviors contradict the purpose of community itself.
Support is not silence. Silence may appear peaceful, but it protects the behavior that causes harm. Real support is rooted in Satya and Ahimsa and speaks truth with integrity, sets boundaries with compassion, and refuses to enable what injures the healing.
Over the years, and with things I've witnessed I stayed silent, and many have asked me why. It has been both a refuge and a responsibility. It can protect peace and give others room to grow. But silence can also be misunderstood as acceptance. I've learned when quiet replaces presence, misunderstanding grows, and what needs correction quietly continues.
When you stand in your truth, you don’t need to defend yourself. You know your actions are right, so other people’s projections no longer carry weight. They speak from their own perception, not your reality. Once you understand this, you stop giving energy to misunderstandings or trying to convince people who don’t seek clarity.
I can handle what’s directed at me because I know my truth. But when integrity is crossed and others are affected, I have a responsibility to step in, both in my personal life and in the community I’ve created.
In both my business and my life, I lead with trust and empowerment. I choose to see the best in people, and sometimes that trust is respected, sometimes it is not. When it’s not, the same pattern repeats itself. At that point, I know it’s no longer a mistake, it’s a choice. And I choose to protect peace and values.
I have never made a decision regarding my space without deep consideration, honest reflection, or respectful communication. It is never based on one isolated incident. There is a clear difference between mistakes and repeated intentional deception. I have valid reasons for every decision I make to protect my community and my family, business and personal life, I do not take that lightly.
Some say this isn’t how you run a business. But I don’t do this for financial gain, and I don’t see it as just a business. It’s my heart and my home. Some people respect that, and some people run over it. That is exactly why I stand by my values and protect what I’ve built with integrity, not ego; with clarity, not control.
I choose what is right, not what is easy. For myself, for the people I care for, and for the space we build together.
We know why we stay still, not because we are wrong but because the situation is between us and God and the external opinions and false accusations just don't even touch that Divine presence you have within yourself.
Stillness protects your peace when speaking would only feed the noise. You don’t lose yourself in other people’s stories about you. You simply stay aligned with what you know is true.
Silence or genuine face to face conversation (not social media thread or texts) can both offer a chance to realign. Both have value, especially in a world where hiding from truth allows avoidance and misunderstanding to grow into untruth and division instead of guiding us toward what is right. Do you not think asking what happened in situations before forming an opinion is nesseary if your going to expel and perpetuate it in a negative way to harm others? Or is somewhat needed to gain clarity? We need presence, not avoidance. We need clarity, not confusion.
***Still, silence only supports healing when it supports truth. There is a difference between empathy and enabling. Compassion supports growth. Enabling allows harmful patterns to continue.***
To stand firm in truth is to dissolve what does not serve, to interrupt the patterns that lead to hate, division, accusations, and untruth. Even in simple ways, this strengthens the spaces we share.
It takes a strong soul to interrupt harmful cycles with integrity, to choose understanding instead of judgment without knowing, presence instead of emotional reaction, and accountability instead of avoidance, to take time to understand rather than be misled by emotion.
This is how we protect peace.
This is how we live our yoga.
Realignment is not failure. Growth often arrives through discomfort, and every return to truth strengthens you. When rooted in the Divine, there is a natural protection and redirection that reveals itself over time.
Let compassion guide you, but let wisdom shape you. Yoga becomes lived wisdom, not just practice.
By choosing truth, respect, and alignment again and again, the path does not just continue, it becomes a part of you.
Gratitude to those who continue to realign with core values. Gratitude for the ones who choose honesty over image, accountability over performance, and genuine compassion over manipulation.
A community of healing should stand strong in truth, not truth based on gossip, opinion, or sides, but truth that comes from integrity and accountability.
Real yoga is not about looking good or being perfect. It is about doing no harm, even when no one is watching, and practicing self-correction when we fall out of alignment.
In yoga, this is the foundation of practice...
*Yamas guide us to do no harm, to be honest, to respect others, and to never take what is not ours, whether it is trust, time, attention, or energy.
*Niyamas call us to inner discipline, to purify our intentions, and to be humble enough to correct ourselves when we fall out of alignment.
These ethics are not abstract. They are how we protect one another in a healing community. A space rooted in truth, respect, and self accountability does not just offer yoga, it embodies yoga. From that embodiment, healing becomes not only possible, but inevitable.
I’m grateful for a community that stands in truth rather than opinion, that values clarity over gossip, and integrity over noise. It takes a lot of energy to spread hate or create false narratives; that same energy could be used to heal and help make the world a better place.
I’m thankful for those that choose not to perpetuate harm, but instead does the courageous work of healing themselves. Because of that, my heart stays full, and no hate enters through me, there is simply too much gratitude that resides within me. ❤️
Tonight marks eight years since Brian and I built this space with our hands, our hearts, and every ounce of love we had, to bring this practice to the community. We made a vow back then, to always treat people with kindness and respect, even when situations become difficult. That vow has never changed.
The same love that built this space is still at the center of it today. This studio continues to realign itself through the energy, integrity, and vibration of those who choose to show up with honesty and heart.
If you’ve ever felt misled through the years, I’m truly sorry. You deserve clarity and truth, even when it’s not given by others. Thank you for being a part of this community, for trusting this space, and for helping keep its foundation strong and sacred. 🙏❤️ 🕊
