About Kali Nova
“Tat Tvam Asi”
Long before I had words for it, my body was already speaking. Breath, movement, the quiet architecture underneath language. I’ve spent my life learning to translate it.
Yoga was first offered to me by my mother, but it became mine the moment I chose to keep it a part of my life. My daily ritual.
In India, sitting with the philosophy of oneness, I learned that the postures were never only a means to an end. They mattered in themselves, a way of coming home to embodiment and awareness. But that wasn’t the whole of it either. Underneath the movement was also the slower work of sitting still long enough to feel what I’d spent a lifetime outrunning.
Then, in the Amazon, the plants confirmed what the words had only pointed toward: my healing was never a private project. It belonged to something larger. It belonged to the Earth. It still does. Plants have been allies of this work for more than a decade, And I see them as working symbiotically with perennial awareness practices, when used responsibly, with care and ethics.
Creativity became the other language for expressing the same truth. Dance was medicine. Song was medicine. Art is, for me a way of remembering what the body already knows before words arrive to name it, to confine it within language.
The Yoga practice I offer now is based in Somatic understanding, Folk herbalism and Liberation doula work. I also weave song and art as remembrance. All of it reaching toward the same, a body-mind finally willing to accept itself as co-creator, ready to live inside of it’s own Reality.
I hold 500++ hours of Yoga Alliance certification. Trained at Montanha Encantada, Sivananda Yoga Vedanta, and Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in India. But the deeper teachers were the ones without diplomas.
You don’t need a perfect practice. You need a faithful one.