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Desirée Pais has been teaching Yoga throughout New York City for the last seven years. In 2010, she completed her first training with Yoga to the People, followed by an advanced certification deeply rooted in the Hatha Yoga + Tibetan Buddhist lineages. As she became more and more fascinated with the body-mind connection, she decided to pursue a Master’s Degree in Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine after meeting Daoist Grandmaster Sung Baek with whom she briefly studied with.
After five years of teaching Vinyasa Yoga throughout New York, she felt something was missing from her classes and her own personal practice, which led her to begin studying Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. In 2016, she completed her third yoga Teacher Training, Level 1 Kundalini Yoga + Meditation with Harijiwan, Tej, Guru Jagat, and Gurujas in Los Angeles. She currently teaches Kundalini Yoga + Meditation classes and workshops around the city where she aims to make these ancient practices available to anyone who is interested in using this profound practice to create the life they want to experience.
Are you interested in spirituality, yoga, and new age philosophy, but are concerned that you'll lose your edge, end up living a sexless, monastic life in a cave? Or perhaps you have avoided exploring the metaphysical side of life because you think that everyone in that scene is a flakey woo-woo nut job?
In this episode, I sit down with Desiree Pais, one of NYC's favorite Kundalini yoga teachers and thought leaders on the local scene. And guess what? She lives a conscious, spiritually-centered life but still creates great art, loves boys, Instagram, fashion, rap music, and (almost) ever other earthly pleasure just like the rest of us ordinary folk.
We talked about so many random, yet fascinating topics that I struggle to write an adequate description of this episode. In the interest of simplicity, I'll tease some of the general territories we covered: Enjoying material success and possessions without letting them possess you, overcoming your ego by doing embarrassing shit, curing acne with Chinese medicine, how being a raw vegan almost killed her, why cockroaches are a superfood in some Taoist traditions, the power of mantras, and how to get over feeling awkward when you sing them.
The overall takeaway from this raw and intimate talk with Desiree is that you can live a healthy, spiritual life in the big city, yet have fun, thrive, and continue to pursue your enlightenment at the same time. Desiree proves that you can fully immerse yourself in the spirit world while keeping your two designer-clad feet firmly planted on the ground. As long as you keep a sense of humor about it all, you can help other seekers on the path do the same along the way.
Please pass this episode along to someone you know who could use a little spiritual boost, but needs that boost powered by down-to-earth realness.
To your path,
Luke
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