I began writing Becoming Pure Positive Energy: The Energy You Were Born to Be more than 25 years after I began teaching yoga. By then, yoga had taken me around the world—teaching thousands of students, leading teacher trainings and retreats, and continually returning to the ancient teachings that have shaped both my work and my life. What began quietly, almost just for me, kept asking for another page…and then another. Somewhere along the way, it became something much bigger—370 pages bigger.
At the heart of this book is something I have said on the first day of every teacher training for more than 25 years: “You must begin from where you are—but you do not have to remain there.” Life is continually asking us to change, adapt, release, receive, and begin again. Becoming Pure Positive Energy is about learning to move with those changes rather than constantly resisting them—and understanding the ancient teachings of yoga not simply as philosophy, but as something we can actually live.
I originally began writing this book because I wanted my students to understand the different layers of energy—and what is actually happening beneath the words we use so easily: happiness, balance, alignment, manifestation, even “positive energy.” Becoming Pure Positive Energy explores how the body, mind, breath, awareness, and the subtle teachings of yoga continually influence one another, giving us a way to understand not only how we feel, but how we participate in creating the lives we live.
This book is for yoga teachers, yoga students, and anyone curious about the relationship between the body, mind, energy, awareness, and the continual process of becoming the energy you were born to be.
