Light comes into the studio I wrote this as an experimental collaboration with ChatGPT. You’ll see its input in the margin notes. At Kundalini Yoga in Detroit, we teach Kundalini Yoga in the KYATBYB* lineage—and we teach it like it’s 2026, with 15 years of practice and a lot of earned discernment behind us. Meaning: we keep what’s real and coherent… and we drop the parts that confuse intensity with wisdom. This page is here for the people who want to know what kind of room th

In this post, I respond to a common idea in the self-development space: that inner work “fails” because something remains hidden. There’

https://youtu.be/oiosqtFLBBA?si=uhbpsPfHrgO6CYPC ☝🏼 Here's the link to the song this blog is about. This should have been enough. There’s a particular kind of honesty in “You Can Go Your Own Way” by Fleetwood Mac. Not the clean, noble kind. The messy kind. The kind that slips out sideways when someone is hurt and doesn’t quite know how to say it straight. The story, as it’s often told, is this: Lindsey Buckingham writes the song about Stevie Nicks as their relationship is f

I was at Eastern Market on a Friday afternoon. Early enough that it wasn’t packed, but busy enough to feel like something. I got my corned beef. Walked past a few people. I kept my head up, searching for some brief contact, the upward head nod we do in Detroit. Nobody really made eye contact. I'm not complaining, just observing. We’ve all gotten a little… self-contained. A kid on a scooter almost bumped into me. I said, “Good morning.” He said, “Morning.” It was 2 pm. So—okay

Most people come to yoga because something has shifted. Perhaps we are dealing with weight loss or gain. We have more aches and pains. We have just given up drinking, or meat. Our doctors have told us we need to start some kind of exercise program. We need to process grief, and while talk therapy is helping, our bodies are keeping score and, well, the L column is racking up more points than the W column lately. I get this. I started taking yoga classes for at least one of the

Most of us have had the experience of watching ourselves do something we didn't quite choose — snapping at someone we love, shutting down when we meant to stay open, performing confidence we didn't feel, or apologizing for something we weren't sorry about. We notice it happening, sometimes even while it's happening, and we still can't seem to stop. Then comes the familiar aftermath: what is wrong with me? IFS offers a different question: what is this part of me trying to do?

We ask each other, quietly, with kindness, and uncertainty. We, who are not feeling that the current administration and Congress, the courts and the political climate care for us. It feels like one gut punch every 10–20 minutes living through this presidency. You don’t know when it’s coming. You don’t know what it will be. You just know—something is going to get said or done that makes you stop, blink, and go, what are they doing? We’re only about fifteen months in. There’s

A new rhythm for lighter days 🌼 Sat nam, welcome in... Beginning in May and continuing through September 2026, Mike and I are adjusting the schedule for the spring and summer months. Here's what to look for: Monday Satsang/Meditaiton 5:30 — 6:30 pm We will follow the meditation practice with a Gong Immersion at 7 pm every other week. On the off week, I will hold Yin Yoga or Yoga Nidra in the same slot, 7 pm-8:30 pm. Tuesday—Thursday and Sunday We are closed, except for P

Turn! Turn! Turn! Music has always informed me. I listened, as a very young child, to songs written by young adults struggling with the world in the 1960s and 1970s—songs that sometimes made me feel alienated and cold, like I was peeking into a room I didn’t belong in yet. My parents left records out like shoes. And just because they didn’t fit didn’t mean I didn’t try them on and walk around in them for hours and hours at a time. And through my life, the wisdom in those albu

https://youtu.be/80s3warB_c0?si=VHIQmKSbBsVvzj_e 👆🏼 Listen to the original Chicago recording here (Parts I and II, about 8 minutes). Chicago V Are you optimistic ’bout the way that things are goin’? No, I never, ever think of it at all. Don’t you ever worry when you see what’s goin’ down? Well, I try to mind my business, that is –– no business at all. Two voices. One country. One table. “Dialogue” was written by Robert Lamm , and on Chicago V it’s literally staged as a con

Two songs that reveal the sacred in everyday life Some songs talk about God the way institutions do — large, distant, doctrinal. The songs I’m exploring today do something else entirely. They place the sacred in the middle of ordinary life , where most of us aren’t conditioned to look. The two songs that carry this theme most clearly, for me, are “God Is In” and “The Bus,” both by Billy Jonas. Neither one sounds like church music. Neither one tries to explain theology. Inst

https://youtu.be/fE0RbPsC9uE?si=-cT938HOCzqobmgd 👆🏼This is the symphony version, with choral at the end...it's 8 minutes long There’s a kind of music that doesn’t ask your opinion. It enters the room like weather. Sibelius’s Finlandia is that kind of piece. Even if you don’t know the history—Finland under pressure, a people trying to keep their spine—you can hear it. There are no words in this first iteration. It’s instrumental. First the dark weight, the grinding insis

Thoughts on Darlingside’s song, "The God of Loss", 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28KduHrvCxM There is a quiet layer inside ourselves that rarely gets named. It doesn't always look like grief. It doesn't always feel like sadness. Often it exists so imperceptibly that we do not even notice it's there at all. Yet it is always there: the steady accumulation of losses that accompany us through life. A friendship fades. Work shifts. The body changes. A dream that once felt

There is something nobody teaches you in school: you can do everything “right” and still lose. You can show up, try hard, care deeply, be brave — and life can still go, “Cool story. But not you; not this time.” And then what? That part — the part after the loss — is where people either grow up or get a little sideways for a while. Because winning is easy to metabolize. Losing is where you find out who you really are. We are trained for victory like it is the only storyline th

Sat Nam, and Welcome in! Before we get into what’s changing at KYD, a quick note about a special offering: Snow Moon/Full Moon Gong Immersion • Sunday February 1, 2026 • 7:00–8:30 pm We’ll be holding a full-length gong immersion under the Snow Moon—an evening of deep rest, nervous-system settling, and effortless meditation. This is not an astrology-based event, and no belief system is required. The name simply marks the season we’re in. You’ll lie down on padded cots with bla

Sat Nam, and Welcome in, Most of us are tired in a very specific way. Not “I need a nap” tired. More like, tired-but-wired. Overstimulated. Unable to fully shut down, even when we finally stop moving. And for many people, meditation doesn’t help — not because they’re doing it wrong, but because sitting upright with an active mind can feel like just one more thing to manage. That’s where Yoga Nidra comes in. Yoga Nidra is a guided practice of deep rest. You lie down, get co

Sat Nam, and Welcome in... Yogi Bhajan's story just keeps getting told. And retold. And retold again. The rise. The robes. The empire. The fall. The abuses. The denials. The reckonings. And the exhausted practitioners trying to hold paradox and practice in the same breath. But at some point, we have to ask: **When will we see this as a pattern in ourselves?** The Pattern We find someone who brings light. We let the light blind us. We ignore the shadows-ours and theirs. We bui

There’s a truth I’ve been circling for years, and I’m finally just going to say it: Kundalini Yoga without music is hard. Not enlightening-hard. Not transformative-hard. Just… unnecessarily hard. And there’s a reason for this that has nothing to do with personal preference or teaching style. It’s structural. It's neurological. And it's deeply tied to the framework Yogi Bhajan set up for his students, and what he believed intensity would achieve in his students. Kundalini Yog

If you've been feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or just ready for something that actually shifts your energy instead of adding more to your to-do list, this is your sign: try Kundalini Yoga. Not someday. Not when life gets quieter. This month. Kundalini Yoga is often called the "yoga of awareness," but here's what that really means for someone walking into class for the first time: you don't have to know what you're doing. The practice meets you exactly where you are. Every post

Make a tiny bookmark of the state you’re in right now. Just notice: here you are, reading these words… eyes open, breathing happening on its own, mind doing its thing. Already in motion. Put your hands in your lap, across your belly, or by your sides. Now, inhale — really take it in. Pause. Exhale. Next breath, slow it down a notch:let the belly rise like warm bread, let the ribs widen, let the air lift all the way up to the throat. Suspend the breath — just a soft hold — a