Growing up in a suburb of Jerusalem, I carried a quiet sense that lasting happiness was already within reach. It was not an easy path to understand. For more than twenty years, I wandered, searched, stumbled, and began again. Yet over time, that early intuition became a lived truth: peace and happiness are always available when I choose them. That is the lesson I continue to learn and share through Choose Again.
Before joining Choose Again in 2017, my background combined both professional study and spiritual practice. I explored Buddhist insight meditation in Thailand and Israel, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University. I was married, and later divorced twice. In 2008, I was introduced to Advaita Vedanta, and I met the British teacher Rupert Spira, whose guidance shaped the following four years of my life.
Even with these insights, I was still living with deep inner conflict. Unprocessed childhood trauma remained beneath the surface, beyond the reach of yoga or meditation alone. Wanting to go deeper, I chose to turn inward more seriously. In 2012, I left the life I had built in the UK and joined the Sat Yoga Ashram community in Costa Rica.
I lived there for five years as a postulant monk. During that time, I had the chance to study the work of major figures in Western depth psychology, including Jung and Lacan. I also underwent psychoanalysis, meeting weekly for nearly five years. It was an extraordinary environment in which to explore the hidden layers of the human psyche.
After the Ashram naturally came to a close, I found Choose Again. I first arrived as a volunteer, but it soon became clear that this was the place where many of the remaining loose ends from my years of study could finally come together. Here, I was able to get to the heart of what had kept me from resting in happiness.
As I reflect on this journey, I feel deeply grateful for the humbling opportunity I have been given. At Choose Again, I am reminded again and again that abiding happiness is mine to have. It is the most beautiful gift I could ever wish for.