I have been a Yoga teacher for over 20 years. Through my personal experience of going through a very difficult separation and alienation from my children, I suffered deeply. At one point in my journey, I decided I needed and wanted to stop suffering even though my problems weren't solved. I discovered I was able to live a life without suffering. I experienced that my pain was only in my mind and that through recognition, understanding, embodying, feeling, expressing, surrendering, and acceptance of my pain  I was able to transmute all the hurt I felt in me, into forgiveness, love, and compassion for my self and others. I learned to be myself authentically, and no one or nothing can ever take that away from me. I learned to become ever so human and now I accompany others on their path to authenticity. From this place, one Is that peace can only come from within. Only by becoming human and we touch heaven. By fully embracing and embodying our human experience—our joys and sorrows, our successes and failures, can we be whole.