According to the Yoga Sutras 2.1, Kriya Yoga, the yoga of transformation, has three components. During this program, they will guide our studies:

• ISHVARA PRANIDHANA (devotion/surrender)
  We will study and meditate on 7 teachings or sutras written by Vidya Carolyn Dell'uomo, based on her studies directly with Swami Kripalu and later, his writings;

• TAPAS (discipline/purification)
  We will dedicate time each week for toe-foot-ankle practices to improve how we feel, stand, move, and balance on our own two feet, in all our practices, both formal and on the spot;

• SVADHYAYA (study of Self)
  Hopefully, individually and together, we will nurture our experience of SHRADDHA (faith). By looking honestly at who we are at this point in time, we cultivate VIDYA (clear seeing) through BUDDHI (the Witness) to continue growing and healing on our personal spiritual paths in these tumultuous times.

In 2026, I'll be celebrating 25 years since I graduated from my 200-hour yoga teacher training at Kripalu with Melanie, Tarika, and Rashmi. To honor that milestone, I have developed a 9-week intensive that explores a method for feeling practice, and for living practice.

Of all the courses and trainings that I took during my years studying Kripalu Yoga, one course taught by Vidya Carolyn Dell'uomo literally changed my life and trajectory, both because of what I felt about myself during and after the program, plus also by how much hopefulness and resistance (avoidance?) that I had for ideas about faith, love, belief, grace, growth, prayer, even god, especially in my yoga practice.

Over the past years, I've taught these seven sutras in different contexts, usually in a weekend workshop called "The Embodiment Experience." Now, I'd like to explore it over a longer period of time, so we can have a week to marinate in each of sutra, before applying the next layer.