3 Books a Month. Exclusively Authors of Color.

I was taking regularly, I could not put down Yellowface by R.F Kuang.  I started showing up early to yoga just so I would have extra time to listen to my audiobook.  It was shocked to realize it was the third book I read that month. 

Realizing just through happenstance I had read three books by authors of color that month I committed to reading at least three books each month for the entire year, written entirely by BIPOC authors. 

And since elementary school, I have often wished I was a more voracious reader.  In January 2025, through luck and yoga again allowing me space for my authentic dharma, I was able to challenge some pretty deep held beliefs about myself.  That steady rhythm became a practice, a kind of sadhana, slowly reshaping the way I see the world.

 An altar of names and voices I have chosen to listen to, voices so often silenced. In honoring them, I found myself walking more clearly toward the path that eventually gave birth to Kailash Yoga and Ayurveda, a homecoming of spirit, ancestry, and lineage.