Jessica Girija Jewell

by Jessica Girija Jewell A few weeks ago, I had the good fortune to attend the Iyengar National Association of the United States convention in Philadelphia. A friend and fellow long-time yoga practitioner invited me to the event back in July 2025. We made our reservations then and have been both piously patient and achingly expectant over the intervening months. There were 760 people in attendance! We occupied the grand ballroom in the Philadelphia convention center, and when the leader,...

by Jessica Jewell When you were born, you arrived into a precise planetary pattern — and took on its karma as your own. This pattern – your birth chart – is seeded into the fertile soil of your chakras. And then the planets plowed on. The present-moment planetary positions create conditions — the symbolic heat and water — for people, things and events to come into your life. The way you react or respond to these is your karma, the pattern sown into your chakras. Every month, we gather...

If you're outside an hour or so after sunset and look west, you'll see Venus in the constellation Taurus near the horizon with Jupiter in the constellation Gemini close behind. They are bright and brilliant, bedazzling to the eye and heart. Over the next few weeks, Venus is moving closer to Jupiter and they will come together in the constellation Cancer for a magical moment around June 10. When these two benefic planets shine together, they bring auspiciousness into our lives. You see, these...