Shankara Studio

Men's Yoga Classes: www.meetup.com group Lambertville Yoga for Men
Private and small group instruction. Yamuna Body Rolling Table Treatments.

06/21/2025

An absolute 5 star 🌟 rating for my tub time with Damon L. Jacobs.

We chatted yoga, body positivity, transformational breathwork, the gift of being gay, and JOY as our birthrite.
🏳️‍🌈☀️🙏🏼🛁🐥

Can’t wait to hop in again!
Link to our talk below.

Frog Meadow Bed and Breakfast & Massage Oasis for Men: Southern Vermont USA
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Soulful Power
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02/14/2025

Taking a moment this Valentine’s Day to shower myself in love. How are you showing up for yourself? How are you showing up in your relationship?

Are you able to voice your desires, your needs, and your truest self openly and honestly with yourself and your loved ones?

Men, join Ed Swaya and me as we explore the Healing Power of Pleasure this April 6-12 at the JungleGayborhood in Costa Rica.

Gift yourself this opportunity to learn, to grow, to expand authentic joy in your everyday life.

🌴☀️🏳️‍🌈

“As counterintuitive as it may seem: let them hear us rejoicing. Even in the midst of a grim struggle, let them hear us rejoicing. Rejoicing in our relationship with Spirit. Rejoicing in our relationship with one another. Rejoicing in the transcendent beauty of Mother Earth. Even in conflict, we sing our song, rejoicing in those that join us every day.”
~SC

01/29/2025

“Destruction is essential to construction. If we want to build the new, we must be willing to let the old burn…

The building of the true and beautiful means the destruction of the good enough.”
~ Glennon Doyle

At this stage, looking at the events of the last week, I say let it burn. Old bridges. Old ideas. Old ways of being. Old embedded ideas about who we are and who we are supposed to be.

As we watch the flames around us, literally and figuratively, how can we examine ourselves? If you see it over there, it’s inside too.

Me, I’m constructing more q***r spaces, speaking up louder, exploring who I am. Living more fully and authentically.

Men, join me, April 6-12 at the JungleGayborhood for a life changing retreat of movement, breath, and Ta**ra.

🔥🏳️‍🌈🌴🐒☀️

12/10/2024

How’re you doing? Fine.

Expected and expected. But how many of us are really asking? How many of us are truthfully answering?

Join me April 6-12 at the Jungle Gayborhood in Costa Rica for a men’s healing retreat, as we let it all hang out. Literally. Figuratively. And ask the hard questions, of ourselves and our community of men. And have a place to explore, dive deep, and answer truthfully, openly and without shame.

The Healing Power of Pleasure will guide you through movement, breath and ta***ic practices to help you understand the blocks in your life and remove them once and for all. We’ll build a community of men seeking connection, intimacy and authenticity.

Link below. 🦋❤️🏳️‍🌈🌴🐒

11/16/2024

In non-western thought, the full moon provides an opportunity for us to evaluate the shadow side… our shadow side. It’s in this honest and intense examination that authentic change can occur.

It’s very easy for us, for me, to look over there and see shadow… see racism, see misogyny. It’s quite literally screaming at us front and center right now and so many seem to have embraced it. Them. Other.

The tougher part, the radical part, is to take the time to look inside. What are the ways that I’m contributing to the hate in our society? To the racism? To the misogyny? This can be overt or merely energetic - actions or thoughts, both hold power.

From my vantage point, it’s not an if, but how. Of course, as a white male, of a certain age, raised in the south, I have both benefitted from and participated in racism and misogyny. I still do. Clearly we cannot pretend these things are in the past - neither over there, nor inside.

But I’m taking this time to pause. To open my eyes. To see my shadow, evaluate and examine it honestly. To learn from my experiences and from those around me. To grow. To evolve. To heal. And, as best as I can, offer healing.

I’ll never change someone else. That’s a fool’s game.

But I can absolutely change me. Live proud. Admit mistakes. Learn. Stay open. Examine my shadow. Let my light shine. Follow my heart.

🙏🏼🦋🏳️‍🌈☀️❤️‍🩹

11/12/2024

Meditating on hope this morning.
Meditating on new beginnings, in spite of the utter dark this country seems to have voted for.
The sun will rise.
Light will prevail.
We’re just on a slower journey at the moment.
❤️‍🩹☀️🏳️‍🌈

03/10/2024

Yesterday a friend and I went for a walk together. We were a block outside of Wilton Manors. (Basically a block outside of gay ground zero.)

A guy drove past a screamed “f&ggot$” out of his window.

I wish I could say I’m shocked. I’m just not.

For those of you that think it’s 2024 - it’s different now, it’s not. For those that think it’s 2024, no one cares, they do.

We have one side that has been encouraged and riled up to spew hate for years now. Anti-gay hate. Anti-trans hate. Anti-women hate. Anti-equality hate. Racist hate. Anti-religious freedom hate. Those are the voices that make people feel entitled to shout “f&ggot$” out of the window.

This dialogue that Biden is somehow the lesser of two evils is simply insanity. Wake up folks. Put down the koolaid.

Here is a man that, as president, has accomplished more in his term than any other president in my lifetime. A man from working class roots. An honest man. A good man. A hero.

Versus a hate-filled, entitled facist wannabe felon. Really folks. We’re going to compare them?

A man who brags he overturned Roe v Wade. A man who will brag when marriage equality is overturned - mark my words. A man who bragged about separating children from the parents. A man that bragged about a Muslim ban. Is our memory so short?? Need to be grabbed by the pu$$y again to remember?!?

If you honestly think these men are comparable, get off my page. Get out of my life. Your fallacy has, and will continue to, invite hate and harm in to this world.

Get out folks. Get registered. Vote. Vote on behalf of me. Vote on behalf of your own dignity and honestly. Vote on behalf of women, of folks of color, of trans folks, of children, of religious freedom.

EVERY VOTE COUNTS.
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02/16/2024

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
🌈❤️☀️🦋🙏🏼
~ Rumi

02/09/2024

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08/27/2023

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
~ Jack Kornfield
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08/11/2023

“Jack: My father always used to say, "Throw your problems out to sea and the answers will wash back up on shore."
Nora: Did they?
Jack: Not in Brighton Beach. Orange peels and watermelon pits washed up. That's why it's good to take someone who knows how to give advice.”

~ Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon

06/23/2023

Be crumbled.
So wild flowers will come up where you are.
You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender.
~ Rumi
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