![]() ![]() My whole being was flooded with an overwhelming joy that I hadn’t felt ever since I remembered myself. I gradually started learning to trust my heart and living from the deep knowing in my heart. It helped me get in touch with the part of me that was sensual, spontaneous and free. Yoga helped me reveal a sense of wholeness and wellbeing for the first time in my life. In my early 30’s, I discovered the spiritual depth of yoga. "Through all of my external searches for meaning and connection, I still had not found the most important connection - a deeper connection with myself." Discovering Yoga I received undergraduate degrees in Biology and French and a graduate degree in Biochemistry, and whenever I wasn’t studying books I was studying from the world, traveling through Europe, the Middle East, Canada, Central America and East Africa. My drive to learn became insatiable."Īfter immigrating to the United States in 2000 I became fascinated by human diversity and different cultures. I was eager to understand how life and the world worked. Then I discovered psychology and neuroscience and started diving deeper into understanding the human psyche, emotions, brain and neuron-pathways. Very quickly I became motivated to explore many natural sciences – geology, ecology, botany, zoology. The first time I felt an interest in learning was when I discovered soil science in college. My dog Blackusha was my best friend, and companion everywhere. I felt at home and alive while gardening, taking long walks in the woods harvesting wild berries and mushrooms. Most of my school studies didn’t bring me joy and felt very mechanical, dulling and uninspiring. Nature, however, was my refuge. “I felt like an outsider all of my childhood. ![]() Most of my life I believed that there was something intrinsically wrong with me, that I was not smart or talented, that I was not enough. My parents had very high standards and expectations of me. Most of my family members are super smart scientists - very rational, logical and critical people. At home, I was told that I was not talented or smart. As a Jewish child growing up in the Soviet Union, I felt like a stranger in a strange land. ![]()
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