Published by Lotus Books/Human Kinetics, to be released Oct 2026
I am beyond excited to share that my book, Beyond the Pose: Lessons from the Yamas and Niyamas for Mindful, Authentic Living is now available for pre-orders!
What Beyond the Pose is About..
This book is about life. My life, but also yours. It’s how we honour each other, take care of each other and also take care of ourselves. The yamas and niyamas, known as the first two limbs of the eight limbs of yoga are about our moral and ethical responsibility to society (yamas) and also personally (niyamas). It is a book about the path of Yoga that has nothing to do with what we look like, what shape we can twist ourself into or what we know about yoga before we start.
Each chapter breaks down each of the five yamas: ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya, apparigraha. And then each of the five niyamas: saucha, santosha, tapas, svadyaya, isvara pranidhana. Interwoven within each description are further lessons from yoga philosophy and then my own personal stories for how I made sense of each one and then began to apply it towards my mindset and actions.
“At the beginning of 2009 I was working through my Yoga Teacher Training journey and taking the deep dive through yoga philosophy. In the same moment, my father was diagnosed with stage 4, inoperable and therefore terminal pancreatic cancer. This is a story of how these two worlds came together and forever changed and shaped me.……Either because of or in spite of this, I found yoga. Not the yoga that is often misunderstood for its fancy poses, and according to social media, also often in bikinis – but yoga. The yoga that is experienced by the very fibre of your being, each cell working in harmony from brain to heart to body and back again. The buzz of pranic energy that can come by merely thinking about its great power. The yoga where true magic happens.”
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Upcoming Author Meet and Greet + Readings
October 2-4, 2026 SCW Mid-West Mania. Hilton Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare. Chicago, IL
October 24, 2026 1-3pm EST FREE Virtual Book Reading + Meditation
November 23, 2026 4-6pm EST The Nock Academy Yoga & Fitness Studio Stouffville, ON
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