I was raised in a intentional community. This particular variety of intention community was an authentic hippy commune, created in 1969 by a group of young people living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California who were looking to live an alternative, experimental lifestyle. It was founded on a philosophy that you are perfect the way you are – not broken, wrong, or needing to be fixed. This was, and still is, a radical idea that has been around for millennia and is also a key pillar yogic philosophies.
Read MoreIn celebration of Mother’s Day and my truly amazing mom, Joy Wagner, I’m sharing some of the things I learned from her that I later found out to be yogic concepts.