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Message from Corrine

I learned how to meditate 27 years ago.  It changed my life completely.  Prior to meditation,  I had been unhealthy for several years suffering from a severe ulcer that was causing me a lot of pain.  A friend suggested I learn how to meditate and also gave me a copy of Deepak Chopra’s book Perfect Health.
I remember driving home the day I learned how to meditate;  colors were more vibrant and I felt more alive than ever, plus my ulcer never bothered me again. I know, a miracle, right!?   My life became focused and I accomplished things I had been wanting to do for many years.  But most importantly, I gained a
 sense of inner peace that has never left me.

After meditating for only six months, I attended a month-long meditation demonstration.  I was a part of the TM study done in 1993 in Washington DC.  There was 6000 of us meditating for three months. http://www.nytimes.com/…/meditating-to-try-to-lower-crime-r….  It was the most magical and transformative time.  It shaped the rest of my life and I am hugely grateful for the shape that it took.  Because of this profound experience in silence,  I realized then, at age 27,  that all of the answers are in the silence.

All the changes we need and want in the world have to take place in consciousness first and not the other way around.   That doesn’t mean we don’t help when we see what is in front of us, it just means that we need to wake up inside first.  So now, one of the most important things that I do and also my favorite thing is to share is meditation.

I found yoga about two years after meditation rocked my world. I had only taken five yoga classes in my entire life when I signed up for my first yoga teacher training.   I was blown away by the teacher and the style of yoga called Svaroopa that was like a meditation for the body.  I attended Master Yoga Academy’s 30-day intensive yoga teacher training program in La Jolla, California in 1995.   I continued to study with the founder of Master Yoga Academy Rama Berch, for about ten years.  It was during that ten year period I lived in San Diego and also worked at the Chopra Center.

In 2005 I traveled to India for the second time and decided I wanted to live there at least for part of the year.  I left my job at the Chopra Center and started traveling and teaching all over the world.  I had run the Chopra Center programs and so it was an easy transition for me to organize and lead retreats on my own.

I love sharing yoga and meditation.  It is my passion because it has shaped and permeated all of my life.  I especially love teaching yoga in a gentle and easy way. I don’t understand people who sweat and work hard in yoga.   To me Yoga is a work-in and not a workout.   I took my next Yoga Teacher Training with Saul David Raye in Santa Monica, CA in 2006.  I still try to make it out to California as often as I can to take a class or workshop with Saul.

Meditation should be as easy as the breath you take.  I can’t relate to those who think that sitting in meditation is like a torture chamber.  My approach to yoga and meditation has always been ease.  I figure life is hard enough and we have enough challenges that these tools should be easy and accessible.  I have been listening to and attending at least annually, a week-long silent retreat with one of my other teachers Adyashanti.

I can’t relate to those who think that sitting in meditation is like a torture chamber.  For me my approach to yoga and meditation was always easy and gentle.  I figure life is hard enough and we have enough challenges that these tools should be easy and accessible.

I have always been passionate about helping others find ease and happiness in their lives so it was a natural progression for me to become a life coach.  I studied with Tony Robbins and was certified by his coaching organized called The Robbins Madanes training in 2010.