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Personal Interest

This story is personal to me because of the emotional paralysis and
suffering I experienced as a teen following the loss and absence
of my father. A published poet and recording artist, my father’s first
love was music. We shared a unique connection bound by our mutual

passion for guitar and writing. I became his “little prodigy,” but tangled
up in my grief, with no support to help me cope, my creativity shut
down. Unable to find my way through my grief via conventional
means, I sought the counsel of a yoga acharya. Under her guidance,

the spiritual path of yoga eventually became the conduit that led me
through my grief, but not until much later. This film is the other side
of that story. It shows how grief can stop you dead in your tracks, but
it also shows what can happen when you rally back from it. Yogini is

the comeback story I would have liked to have lived.

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