Inner mastery must be cultivated for you to live it fully
in your relationships and in your life.
- Swami Nirmalananda

We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.   - Thomas MertonDear Ones, We are more than just the body we inhabit, we are more than what we “think” we are.   Our being is [...]

You are the whole of
Shiva
yet existing within
 Shiva.
- Swami Nirmalananda

Do you “go with the flow”?    Swami Nirmalananda tells us that “control is an illusion”.  Have you noticed in your life what happens when you don’t  go with the flow?    My experience with refusing to go with the flow has given me several lessons, and at times…these lessons turn into very painful experiences - sometimes physically [...]

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
- Lao Tzu

- Memorial Day Weekend Schedule -
   -   CLASS CANCELLATION NOTICE  -   NO CLASSES on SUNDAY MAY 30th and  MONDAY, MAY 31st  for the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend.
***   Attention Students ***      
 It is with sadness that I close the doors of Gateway Yoga Studio soon.   Classes will continue through Tuesday, June 29th, 2010.   I plan to move to Madison, [...]

 
This is how you become free of ego:  by losing your sense of limitation and contractedness, and by discovering your own divinity.  
 - Swami Nirmalananda

Yoga practices draw grace to you, 
like a lightening rod draws lightening.
- Swami Nirmalananda

 All the practices of yoga turn your attention inward,  specifically for you to find and experience your own presence within yourself.  - Swami Nirmalananda
When I began my yogic journey, I didn’t know really how much that it would affect my life.  Initially, I was curious and began reading Yoga Journal Magazine.  The beautifully photographed models on the [...]

I am a hole in a flute
That the Christ’s breath moves through -
Listen to this music.
I am the concert from the mouth of every creature
Singing with the myriad chords.
- Hafiz
Listen to the music of your own breath… let it sing out to you!   Lataa