Healthy Mama Magazine Issue 1 - July 2014 | Page 49

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o, performance became a kind of therapy for you. Was it enough?

The time came when acting out our lives became monotonous and rote. I had deep subconscious scars to face and
understand. I needed REAL medicine something that would help me heal. Once, while stage managing a one woman
show at a library, I came across a small book titled ‘Yoga’. The picture on the cover of a woman vibrating with health and
serenity resonated with me. Since the book was in a closed section of the library that was not being used I justified taking
the book and put it in my pocket. For months I followed the sequences and although I felt physically better anger, sadness, depression and confusion lingered. Eventually, I ventured out looking for a yoga center that would contribute to this
path and I found the Sivananda Yoga center on 24th Street in New York City. The smell of incense and vegetables mixed
together was one I always attributed with purity and the mystical practice that took place there. I was hooked. Taking time
every week to practice yoga asana and meditation along with a healthy vegetarian/vegan diet contributed greatly to my
recovery. Then the lesson became on how to be patient with myself. I wanted and expected results quite fast but that
wasn’t the case. I learned that healing was going to require delving deep into myself and allowing time to take care of the
rest. In other words ‘Letting go and letting God’.

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our journey has taken you on transformative path. Can
you share some of the key things you have learned along
the way?

I honestly do not know if I’d be alive today if it were not for this practice. Though there are days when I feel off balance
and I struggle to stay grounded and steady I simply remind myself, ‘You’ve made it through before, you’ll make it through
again.’ I look forward to demonstrating and witnessing the Grace of God’s love through me. I realize that this practice is
not so much about how much one gains but instead how open one becomes to letting Divine flow happen. What makes
me wake up every day is the challenge of being and doing the best that I can to contribute in some way to the happiness
and freedom of another through my words, thoughts and actions. Waking up to a new day is the greatest gift one could
ever receive regardless of pain and suffering. Our teachers Sharon Gannon and David Life remind us that ‘Magic is a shift
in perception.’ This is so very true and confirms that there is more to life than meets the eye, that magic is real, inside
of us. Everyone at some point in their lives has to undergo the initiation of pain so I say this, if you are going through a
crucifixion, stick around for the