❖ Ajai Yoga

🌿 Yoga Therapist & Somatic Relational Guide

Most of us are exhausted from the effort of holding ourselves together

Exhaustion rarely comes from how much we do. It comes from the quiet, constant effort of holding our different ‘selves’ together — a bracing that becomes so patterned, we've stopped noticing it. And the stakes are quietly enormous: the quality of our relationships is shown to be the strongest predictor of a full, happy life — yet true closeness stays out of reach while our bodies are being patterned for survival and performance.

Eastern traditions teach us the inner field and the relational field are not separate. Our relational innerness — the “loob” (pronounced ‘loo-ohb’) of Filipino kapwa psychology, the inner self that was never truly apart from others — is already facing toward connection, but we tend to center ourselves in the defended space around it, while loob is only asking for space to emerge.

My work is the slow somatic reworking of those patterns, creating space for that emergence. In practice it's subtle-body work — the layer where the deepest patternings are held. The breath is the bridge between body and mind, and through it we can create the conditions for that layer to surface, where the conditioned patternings can finally loosen. Whether we're looking inward at your own physiology or outward at the space between you and another, the movement is similar: lowering the system’s resistance, reclaiming agency — and recentering — so you can return to direct, unarmored contact with your own pranic life force energy.

And as that relational innerness becomes available again, something lost can return: access to pleasure and play, the felt intelligence of a life no longer braced against itself.

Body, Speech, and Mind: The 3 gates of awakened consciousness in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism

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Clinical Yoga Therapy

For somatic overwhelm, chronic anxiety, nervous system exhaustion, trauma, and co-occurring conditions

The Friction ~ You've tried to think and talk your way out of overwhelm and trauma, but the body was never a problem the mind could solve
The Method ~ We bring the ‘gates’ of body, speech, and mind back into conscious alignment — marrying somatic science with cognitive behaviors — to lower resistance in the nervous system until recentering becomes a threshold you live from. This is the slow, deliberate work of reclaiming your own pranic life force energy from the patterns of chronic bracing

The Rhythm ~ Weekly (~75-minute sessions)
The Container ~ An 8-week foundational program, with custom-prescribed movement and meditation videos and text support between sessions
Investment ~ $2,000 per 8-week container. A committed sanctuary for structural transformation, with monthly integration extensions available

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Relational Intimacy Guidance

For individuals and partners ready to close connection gaps and come back into real contact — with self and other

The Friction ~ You can be physically close to someone and still feel alone in connection. We armor up to survive — and in time, the walls that once kept us safe become the ones that keep us from being reached
The Method ~ Intimacy lives in the threshold where the mind-body system feels truly safe enough to be changed by an experience or connection. A space free of performance. We practice moving, speaking, and breathing from the center together. This is the work of unarmored contact: learning to stand in the threshold of yourself and another without straining to be heard

The Rhythm ~ Every two weeks (~75-minute sessions)
The Container ~ 6-month arc (12 sessions). Includes curated resources and text support between sessions
Investment ~ $3,000 per 6-month container. A committed sanctuary for relational transformation, with monthly integration extensions available

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✦ The Guide

I came to this work through some very different worlds — service as a Navy veteran, years in the corporate world, and a long immersion in wellness, spiritual, and inclusive communities. Different as they were, each showed me the same human pattern from a new angle — how readily we separate to restore balance, from ourselves and from each other, and the work it actually takes to come back.

As a guide, I keep yoga at the spine of my work. I blend traditions — Hatha and Shakti Kundalini at the center “to still the patternings of the mind,” (Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra 1.2). Around that, I draw on Ayurveda, contemplative and non-dual traditions, and the Filipino indigenous psychology of my heritage — the kapwa worldview, where the self is viewed as never separate from the people around it and its inner life (loob); it, in fact, emerges from relationship.

Grounded in a long study of yogic and tantric philosophies, these traditions converge on something I've come to hold as sacred and central: yoga and meditation are relational practices. The practical aim is very grounded — real nervous-system regulation, the lowering of the anatomical and pranic frictions that keep us from contact. But at its root, this practice is a radical act of rebellion. In a culture built on constant looking away, to lower that armor is an inner revolutionary act against chronic defense—an active turning toward: turning toward the present-moment experience, toward yourself, toward others, toward Village Eros, toward the world, toward breath and body, and toward cosmic reality, whose nature is relational all the way down to the micro. Look closer yet, and you might find this simultaneous turning is both inward and outward.

Follow Your Bliss ✨