I left India without a guru but came home with something infinitely more powerful: confidence, clarity, and compassion. Whether they knew it or not, the teachers I met gave me what I had prayed for most of my adult life — the confidence to heed my body’s wisdom, the clarity to trust my intuition, and the compassion to love without exception. I felt love for the whole world, for the bitter, beautiful, glorious, tragic, and wondrous mystery of it all, and, for the first time, I knew without a doubt that the “heaven” I had been seeking was right here all along — everywhere I look and wherever I
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