This book will change your life…

To expand perception for loving - kindness and inner compassion. For space to grow, to contribute to the collective, truthfully and whole - heartedly. Bring awareness to mental health and the heavy burden that is mistaken perception, to allow contentment for creation.

Alchemize family roots to cut chords and nurture truth.

There was a disconnect between the body, self-identity, and the relationship with the world.

This is a story of alchemy. Empty, lost, and lonely in the beauty industry, yet surrounded by everything she had imagined from the cage. After overcoming addiction, disordered eating, and the mental afflictions that came with them, Christina travels around the world solo to better understand humanity and purpose.

The story begins in a dark place, riddled with the raw reality of where addiction can take you. The practice of meditation led to the discovery of yogic philosophy. The lifestyle change and mountain range inspired her to relocate to Colorado. She was resuscitated from the dance with death to be liberated at last.

The hold-up was a past not yet laid to rest. She was arrested upon returning to Ohio from Colorado and detained in jail for an undetermined length of time. The message was of patience and persistence. Recently acquired meditation techniques, within the walls revealed a truth firsthand: we will not be here for long.

Daily yoga practice led to entrepreneurship, moving across the country, and eventually the world. The demons of the past did not rest. Trauma that had been lying dormant within the subconscious awakened with the understanding of people, places, and things. Sacred space was discovered while visiting a silent mediation retreat in Northern Thailand then again, with vigor, at a lodge in Nepal. Poetry was the key to unlocking a voice that had been frozen in time.

When the heart opened, through yoga postures and breathing, magic became a reality. Eyes that were once hazed over in grey, now gaze over a blood-orange sun, rising over the stillest lake, and reflecting the bluest sky. The understanding of yoga, Buddhism, Anatomy, and Chinese medicine facilitated a playful, light body. To unconditionally love with compassion is a gift. Yoga practice began to heat up and the student became the teacher.

Sharing meals is one of the most precious moments in time.

The last part of the book is a translation of The Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, the foundational literature of yoga, from Sanskrit. This book is for anyone who feels like a caged bird and wants to fly.